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1.) Shoot for a Scholarship High school students can gain valuable advertising experience, pick up nice trophies and win money for college, including a $ 2,000 scholarship from the New York festivals and $1,000 from USA Today. The Courageous Persuaders' contest is really easy to enter! Just create a commercial that persuasively warns middle school students about the dangers of underage drinking. The competition is open to high school students anywhere in the United States. The Grand Prize-winning commercial will air on TV as a public service announcement. Courageous Persuaders was founded by Judge Michael A. Martone and McCann Erickson Detroit, the Birmingham, Michigan, office of the world's largest multinational advertising agency system. Check out last year's winners, view the official rules and enter the competition at: www.CourageFirst.com or call 248-526-6700.
2.) College Fight Song Wanted! For all you music fans out there! Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio is looking for a college fight song. The former all-women's college, east of Cleveland, Ohio, is sponsoring a nationwide search to find a spirited, rousing tune to help inspire its newly formed football program. Lake Erie plans to field its first intercollegiate football team, the STORM, in 2008, and "when we score a touchdown, we need a fight song or something to go along with that" says college spokeswomen Kathleen Lawry. The author of the winning entry will earn $ 200 and bragging rights. The song, whose tune must be original or in the public domain, also must contain the words "Storm" and "Lake Erie College". Other requirements are at the school's website: www.lec.edu/pr/fight.php. So go out there and write the perfect fight song for the Lake Erie College Storm!
3.) Put That Creative Writing Talent To Work! Are you a creative writer looking to show off some of your work? The The scholarship program is open to high school freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors. One $5,000 will be awarded annually. If the winning work has been co-authored, both students will receive $2,500.00. For more information on the award and scholarship program, or to enter, visit: www.booksamillion.com/scholar Get writing!!!
4.) Teens For Greens Amazing Search For Fresh Recipe Challange All you would be Chef's out there, check this out. Fresh Express, a Salinas, California, food company has teamed with celebrity chef Todd English, MTV veejay Susie Castillo, actor/director Andrew Shue and national not-for-profit organization "Do Something" to kick off the: Teens for Greens Amazing Search for Fresh Recipe Challenge. This is a national salad recipe contest, designed to get kids into the kitchen, to get them to eat healthful and to get them involved in their own eating habits. Contest entries must use some kind of Fresh Express bagged salad as a base, but from there, the sky's the limit. Entries are accepted in three categories: Signature Salad (I could eat this anytime, anywhere) Prizes will range from video iPods and digital camcorders and cameras to a grand prize of a college or culinary school scholarship. The contest began November 1, 2006, and will run for 80 days in recognition of the company's 80th anniversary this year. The contest is open to middle or high school students or to those ages 8 to 18. For more information visit their website: www.freshexpress.com/FunStuff.html
VH1 and Warner Brothers are offering aspiring songwriters the chance to be heard with "Your Music, Your Lyrics," a contest that started Tuesday, December 26, 2006, and will run through January 20, 2007. Contestants can write, record and upload an original love song to Talentload.tv/musicandlyrics. The winner, decided by online votes and representatives from VH1 and Warner Brothers, will be announced February 7, 2007. The lucky songwriter will have the song professionally recorded.
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