The CollegeVine Guide to High School Writing Contests.

USIP partners with the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) on the annual National High School Essay Contest. The contest each year engages high school students in learning and writing about issues of peace and conflict, encouraging appreciation for diplomacy’s role in building partnerships that can advance peacebuilding and protect national security.

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High School Essay Contest. The PLATO High School Essay Contest awards will be given to the best philosophical essays written by high school students, in response to the year’s contest essay question. The 2017-2018 Essay Contest is closed. Please check back in September 2018 for next year’s contest question and directions.

Stage of Life hosts a monthly student writing contest for high school students and teenagers. Writing contest format is short-essay (500 words or less). Winners receive cash or gift prize, T-Shirt, and Featured Writer status on the site. The writing contest theme and topic varies from month to month on real, world-changing issues. Good luck!

Contests at state level may have occurred anytime in 2014 or 2015. NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing: Achievement Awards in Writing is a school-based writing program established in 1957 to encourage high school students in their writing and to publicly recognize some of the best student writers in the nation. Only students who are JUNIORS in.

Just for Fun (and maybe glory!) It feels great to reach a personal goal, and it's also nice when someone else recognizes your accomplishment. Motivation is key to achievement of any kind. Here are some contests and activities that could be motivating, fun and potentially lucrative!

The contest encourages students to think about the people and experiences that have helped to shape their values. It challenges them to take a stand for what they believe in. Unlike most essay contests, this contest doesn’t tell young people what to write about. There is no prescribed topic students have to address. They just have to write.

The Norman Mailer Center and the National Council of Teachers of English are pleased to invite submissions for the 2013 Norman Mailer Writing Award for Middle and High School Teachers. Full- and part-time middle school and high school teachers are eligible to enter the competition.

The Holocaust Remembrance Essay Contest is held annually for local high school students. The Jewish Community Foundation and the Jewish Federation of Durham-Chapel Hill are committed to promoting Holocaust awareness among young people in North Carolina, Jewish and non-Jewish alike.

Annual Math League Contests The Math League sponsors math contests for grades 4-8 and high school students from the U.S. and Canada. Schools compete in statewide or multistate league competitions. The American Mathematics Competitions Various math competitions open to qualifying students of all grade levels. Math Olympiad Contests.

Nikhil Kurian, of Urbana Middle School, was eighth-prize winner of the 2016 Middle School Essay Contest sponsored by the Sgt. Lawrence Everhart Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution. With.

Theme of 2020 Essay: Music - A Magic Carpet (For 2021: Music - Is a Storyteller) 2. Essay MUST be typed and no longer than 500 words. Essay is judged on content, neatness and legibility. The current year’s theme and entrant’s name must be typed at the top of the first page. (NOTE: For NFMC contest, the teacher’s email address or telephone.