ClassroomConnections Photo Contest
Submit a photo of the fun and interesting ways your class enjoys Weekly Reader and you'll automatically be entered into a monthly drawing to win a Flip video camera.
Hurry! The first drawing is on November 16.
"Reading is My Favorite Thing" Student Cover Art Contest
Teachers, do you have some outstanding student artists? Weekly Reader is looking for some fantastic student art for its "Reading Is My Favorite Thing" cover art contest. To win, submit your student's best reading-themed cover art here.
Deadline is November 30.
Weekly Reader Student Publishing Contest
The Weekly Reader Student Publishing Contest recognizes outstanding student newspapers and individual nonfiction work by students in grades 3–12. Top prizes include publication of winning students' work, expense-paid trips to Washington, D.C., for students and teachers, and a $500 cash award. Entry is free for individuals and schools. For more info and to download an entry form, click here.
And you will find a report on last year's awards ceremony here.
Deadline is March 19, 2010.
Exciting Packaging Design Contest
Encourage your students to take a dip into the arts and create a winning design. The winner, his/her school of choice, and 12 finalists win prizes!
Visit www.uDipSweepstakes.com for the details today!
Contest deadline is November 30, 2009.
Make a Difference Contest
Open to classrooms that subscribe to WR News Senior Edition. Students should write a 200- to 400-word essay explaining how they are making a difference in the world around them. Examples include volunteering, raising money for a good cause, and planting trees.
Send entries, postmarked by Nov. 20, 2009,
to: WR News, Make a Difference Contest,
1 Reader's Digest Road,
Pleasantville,
NY 10570-7000.
The writer of the winning essay will be featured in a WR News article.
Ann Arlys Bowler Poetry Contest
READ's annual student poetry contest. Open to grades 6–12. Six winners will receive $100 each and will be featured in a special electronic issue of READ. All submissions must be postmarked by Dec. 31, 2009.
Send poems (maximum of two) to:
Ann Arlys Bowler Poetry Contest
READ Magazine
1 Reader's Digest Road
Pleasantville, NY 10570-7000
"Write Into the Future" Essay Contest
READ's annual essay contest. Open to grades 6–12. Students are asked to imagine waking up 100 years from now. What is the year 2109 like? What do they see? What is the current technology? How do people live? Four winners will receive $100 and have their essays published.
Send essays to:
"Write Into the Future" Contest
READ magazine
1 Reader's Digest Road
Pleasantville, NY 10570-7000
All submissions must be no longer than 500 words and must be postmarked by Dec. 31, 2009.
Current Science Mystery Photo contest
For subscribers to Current Science
Most of the Mystery Photos featured in Current Science are taken by student photographers. For each photo published in the magazine, the photographer receives $50 plus a T-shirt with the photo printed on the front. The photographer or classroom with the most photos published in a school year wins the Mystery Photo Contest. Find out more here.
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