Engineers Week (February 17-23, 2019) is a national, annual celebration of how engineers make a difference in our world, with goals to increase public dialogue about the need for engineers and to bring engineering to life for kids, educators, and parents. This year, WVU's Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources is sponsoring an essay/problem solving competition for West Virginia K-12 students. You can see the prompts, judging schedule, and awards for each level below.
All submissions must be received by Wednesday, February 13 at 5 p.m. Winners will be notified by email and announced on social media. Make sure to follow the Statler College on Twitter and Facebook.
For over 30 years, the West Virginia Young Writers Contest has celebrated student writing in the state. The YWC grows out of a deep commitment to writing in all subjects, and to the publishing, displaying, and celebrating of student writing.
Contest GuidelinesTeachers and administrators in each county will encourage students to submit writing for judging, first at the school, and then the county level. Submissions may be on any topic and in any prose genre: fiction, nonfiction, narrative, memoir, or essay. Poetry is not eligible for submission and submissions must be free of graphics. Entries should be the sole creation of the student and composed during the current school year. The entry should be drafted in a manner which best supports the use of process writing and the concept of the writer’s workshop. Home-schooled students and students in private schools may participate, subject to the guidelines and supervision by the county in which they reside. YWC County Coordinators are encouraged to share contest information with private schools and home school associations. Winning entries from private schools and from home-schooled students must be judged at the county level. Leaders from the Central West Virginia Writing Project (CWVWP) at Marshall University will judge entries on the following criteria: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. Entries submitted for state competition at categories below must not exceed word length limits: Grade 1-2 300 words Grade 3-4 500 words Grade 5-6 700 words Grade 7-8 700 words Grade 9-10 1,000 words Grade 11-12 1,200 words Schools need to submit entries to County Coordinators by February 4, 2019. For more information, contact Monroe County coordinator, Christine Dunlap at [email protected] or visit https://www.marshall.edu/cwvwp/young-writers/contest/. High School Business Plan Competition
Some of West Virginia’s greatest challenges can become its greatest opportunities. The goal of the West Virginia High School Business Plan Competition is to work collaboratively to help move the state forward by engaging young minds to solve West Virginia’s greatest issues. The future of our state is at hand, and we are working to involve young talent from across the state to share their ideas. The students in the competition compete for a $10,000 scholarship to a participating institution in the state of West Virginia. Round 1 entries are due online December 7, 2018, by noon. The Letters About Literature competition, a reading promotion program of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress is supported locally by the West Virginia Center for the Book. To enter, young readers write a personal letter to an author explaining how his or her work changed their view of the world or themselves. Readers can select authors from any genre —fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic. The program has three competition levels: upper elementary, middle school, and secondary. The contest theme encourages young readers to explore his or her personal response to a book then express that response in a creative, original way. The entry deadline is January 11, 2019. Visit http://www.read.gov/letters/states-list.html#west-virginia to enter the contest.
First Lady Cathy Justice and her Student Art Series announce the Wonderful West Virginia Mothers Essay Contest. All students in 9th and 10th grades, who are attending a West Virginia Public Schools, are invited to submit an essay of five hundred words or less to tell how your mother grandmother, aunt, sister, or any woman has helped and inspired you. The First Lady said, “I have had many strong women mentors in my own life, so I expanded the contest to allow students to write about any woman that has nurtured and guided them throughout life.”
This contest is part of the First Lady’s new Student Artist Series initiative. On special holidays, she will host different art competitions or projects for students to participate in, that will encourage creativity and promote the importance of the arts within public schools in West Virginia. Students may submit an essay via email to [email protected] or mail their entries to The Governor’s Mansion, 1716 Kanawha Boulevard East, Charleston, WV 25305. With their submission, they MUST include a cover page with their name, phone, email, word count, school name, teacher name, and teacher email. The essays must be received by May 4, 2018. Winners will be announced before Mother’s Day. Monetary Prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. For questions please contact the First Lady’s Special Assistant, Katie Speece at (304) 558-3588 or [email protected]. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is seeking submissions for its 2018 essay contest. Students are invited to consider and share their thoughts on the question: “How has the Fourteenth Amendment impacted education in the 150 years since it was ratified, and what impact will it likely have in the future?” Essays are limited to 1,000 words and must be submitted by April 15, 2018.
The contest is open to students currently in grades 9 through 12 from Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Students have the opportunity to win one of three cash prizes: first place, $2,000; second place, $1,500; and third place, $1,000. Winners will be announced in June and presented at a Constitution Day event in September 2018. For additional information and instructions on how to submit an essay, visit http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/essay-contest-2018. For questions, contact the Fourth Circuit Clerk’s Office at [email protected] or (804) 916-2706. Please note: Children, grandchildren, stepchildren, or members of the household of a federal judge or federal judiciary employee are not eligible for the competition. All students enrolled at a West Virginia college or high school are invited to apply for the Pearl S. Buck Writing Competition. Awards of $1,000 each will be given to an undergraduate and graduate student winner, and a high school winner will receive $250 and a scholarship to the WVU English Department's Summer Scholars program ($600 value). Winning pieces will be those that best reflect the life and values of Pearl Buck. The Selection Committee will base its decision on the extent to which the writing reflects one or all of the following: expression of appreciation for difference and different cultures, including but no limited to Appalachia and China, social justice and women's perspectives. Applicants must submit an original writing in any literary genre (e.g., fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, essay, children's literature, play writing, blog, etc) no later than March 2, 2018. Word maximum is 10,000. All applicants will be notified by May 15 of status.
Winners and runners-up will be published in online format and housed, for historical purposes, with the Pearl S. buck collection at WVU. Winners and runners-up retain copyrights to their works, while granting a nonexclusive license to WVU to publish. Questions should be addressed to Dr. Melanie Page at [email protected] or 304-290-3250. The Maryida Mosby Travel Scholarship in the amount of $1,000 will be awarded to an outstanding West Virginia tenth or eleventh grade student during the West Virginia Alpha Delta Kappa Sate Convention in April 2017. The $1,000 scholarship must be used for educational travel. The scholarship is provided in memory of Maryida Mosby, a former social studies teacher in WV. The scholarship will be awarded for educational travel. The deadline to apply is December 12, 2017. See the school counseling office for an application.
The Lions Youth Exchange Contest is now open and entries are due by November 15, 2017. The travel grant provides funds for students in grades 10-12 ages 17-21 or a recent graduate toward a four to six week cultural exchange to Finland, Japan, Italy, Peru, Germany, Frnace or Australia during the summer of 2016. Five grants of $1,200 will be awarded. You may find the application at www.wvlions.org/youth.html
Students can begin earning money for college while in high school by taking challenging courses and preparing for college. Click here to see a number of scholarships offered by WVU through the RaiseMe program. If you wish to start your profile now, visit https://www.raise.me/join/wvu.
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