There are three age categories from first to twelfth grade. If you know a budding historian who is interested in American Civil War history, please pass this on to them.
This contest is being held as part of the TVCWRT's Sesquicentennial celebration and a prelude to our November Civil War Symposium.
Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table
2013 Writing Contest
Contest Rules
Topic: Why Is
Learning about the American Civil War Important to America and Americans?
Qualified
Entries:
To be qualified for the Contest, an entry must answer the question in
200 words or less: Why is learning about the American Civil War
important to America and Americans? (hereinafter referred to as “the
Contest”).
Eligibility: The Contest is open to all (and only)
students in grades 1-12 enrolled as of the time of the Contest in public,
private and parochial elementary, middle, and high schools, and respective
home-schooled youth, in the 2013-2014 school year in the Tennessee Valley area. No purchase necessary.
Entry
Categories:
There are three entry categories:
elementary school students (grades 1-6), middle school students (grades
7-9), and high school students (grades 10-12).
Entry
Period: The
Contest begins at 12:00 a.m. Central Time on August 15, 2013, and entries must
be received by 11:59 p.m. Central Time on September 30, 2013.
How
to Enter: Submit
your entry via email to tnvalleycivilwarrt@gmail.com.
Your entry may be included in the body
of your email or as an attached MicroSoft Word (and only M/S Word)
document.
If you prefer, your parent or guardian
may email your entry for you.
Include the following information in your
email:
Full name and telephone number of
student.
Name of school and grade level (e.g.,
third grade, ninth grade, etc.)
Questions may be submitted via email to
the same address, or you may call 256-541-2483 (if no answer, please leave a
message).
Only one (1) entry per person. Any attempts to submit more than one (1)
entry by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations
and logins, or any other methods, may result in disqualification of that
student’s entries.
Entries exceeding maximum word limit
will not be judged.
There is no fee to submit an
entry.
By submitting an entry to the Contest,
each entrant agrees to comply with and be bound by these Official Rules, and
acknowledges that the decisions of the TVCWRT shall be final and binding in all
matters relating to the Contest.
There will be a limit of fifty (50)
entries per student category, on a first-come basis. Entries received in excess of that limitation
in each student category will be retained by the TVCWRT, but not judged.
Winner
Selections:
Judging will commence at the time the
Contest begins and continue until all entries submitted prior to the Contest
end time have been reviewed.
All valid entries will be screened by
one or more persons appointed by the TVCWRT Board of Directors in its sole
discretion. The screening panel will
submit its findings and recommendations to the Board. The Board will select the winner in each of
the three student categories, subject to the following limitation
There
must be a minimum of three entries in a student category (elementary, middle,
and high school) for judging and determination of a winner in that
category. Any category in which a
minimum of three entries is not received will not be judged and no winner will
be determined. In this case, the TVCWRT
will recognize each entrant in that category at the awards announcement on
November 2.
The Board of Directors will select one
Contest Winner in each of the three student categories, based on the following
criteria, weighted equally: (a) originality, (b) creativity, (c) quality of
expression, and (d) usefulness in understanding why the study of the ACW is
important to America and Americans today.
The Contest Winner in each category
will be notified via email no later than Saturday, October 26, 2013. [This is
one week before the symposium.]
PRIZE: The Contest Winner in each category will –
Be introduced and allowed to publicly read
his/her winning entry at the TVCWRT Civil War Symposium currently scheduled to
be held November 2, 2013, at the main library facility of the
Huntsville/Madison County Public Library in Huntsville, Alabama. If for some reason the Symposium is not held
on that date or at that location, the TVCWRT will notify each Contest Winner of
alternate arrangements,
Receive a TVCWRT Symposium tee shirt.
Receive a complimentary family
membership to the TVCWRT for one year (2014).
GRANT
OF RIGHTS: All entries become the property of TVCWRT.
By submitting an entry, the entrant
grants to the TVCWRT (a) the right to edit the entry for grammar and spelling;
and (b) a non-exclusive, assignable, perpetual, license to produce, publish,
distribute, transmit, exhibit, exploit, and license the entry and any portions
thereof in any format (collectively "distribute" or "distribution,"
as applicable) by any and all means, uses and media, whether audio, print,
audiovisual or otherwise, now or hereafter known, in all languages.
Entrant further agrees that TVCWRT
shall have the first right to distribute the entry unless TVCWRT waives that
right, in writing; provided that, TVCWRT’s first right to distribute shall
automatically expire on September 30, 2014.
Entrant retains the copyright and all
other rights in the work.
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