Enter the Turnoff Week Essay Contest!

Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness is pleased to announce its annual Turnoff Week Essay Contest as part of Turnoff Week 2009.  Contest participants are encouraged to submit essays that deal with the positive effects of reduced screen-time on their life and imagination.

Entries must be written by individuals, not pairs, families or groups.  Parents and teachers may not help to correct or edit entries.

Entries will be judged on the basis of originality, composition, clarity, and exposition of the theme.

Winners in each age group will receive a Turnoff t-shirt.

Theme --  “I'm unplugged and ready to...”

Age Groups
 
Grade two and younger – Essays must be between five and ten sentences in length. Invented spelling is acceptable.   Entries in pencil, pen, or done via keyboard are acceptable.

Grades three through five – Essays must be between ten and twenty sentences in length.  Please use pen or keyboard.

Grade six and older – Essays must be one to three pages in length.  Please use pen or keyboard.

Deadline, etc. -- All entries must be received by May 30, 2009.  All entries must include the following information: Student name, student grade, school name, address and phone number, teacher’s name.  Entries which do not include all of the required information may be disqualified.  Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness will not return any entries, and  retains the right to use any entry, or any part of any entry, at its sole discretion, for use in or on any Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness materials, publications, or communications.

Send entries to:

EssayContest2009                                                                                                                                                Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness
1200 29th St., NW,
Lower Level #1
Washington, DC 20007