Deadline: 10 March 2011
$27,000 in Savings Bond Awards
Theme: Lost & Found
Have you ever lost a thing like a favorite toy or sweater, or someone like a friend who moved away and later you found a new friend, or that losing the friend made you feel different or made you change your ideas?
Other things that you might have lost: a game, weight, another person through some sort of separation, a pet, your way while traveling somewhere, self-confidence, your privacy, the way you are Asian or feel about being Asian.
Losing can be good or bad. Finding can be part of new ideas or learning from things that happen to us.
Essays: Tell us about something or someone important that you lost and, later, what you found about that experience. When you lost something or found out how you felt, was it different because you are Asian or similar to other people?
For more information call (415) 433-6859
Growing Up Asian in America
Growing Up Asian in America is the largest celebration of Asian heritage in America. It serves as an important community resource, helping people of all backgrounds better understand the experiences of young Asian Americans and learn more about life in a place as diverse as the San Francisco Bay Area.
Growing Up Asian in America provides a unique forum for youth to explore their ideas and to celebrate being both Asian and American. This program also serves as an important community resource, helping people of all backgrounds better understand the experiences of young Asian Americans and learn more about life in a place as diverse as the San Francisco Bay Area.
Growing Up Asian in America is a program of the Asian Pacific Fund. Every year, around 1,400 Bay Area students in grades kindergarten through 12 submit artwork, essays and poems on a specific theme, and compete for $27,000 in prizes. Winners receive savings bond awards worth $1,000 to $2,000, and are honored at an awards ceremony at the Asian Art Museum. Special exhibits displaying the winning art work and essays go on tour during Asian Pacific Heritage Month, and they are hosted throughout the year by more than 50 public libraries all over the Bay Area. All winning entries are also archived online at the Asian Pacific Fund web site.
Student Eligibility
• All backgrounds including Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, other Asian or Pacific Islander ethnic groups, or mixed heritage are invited to submit entries.
• Grade K through 12.
• Live in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano or Sonoma County.
• Not have won a cash prize in the same grade or category (art or essay) in previous years. The three categories are grade K - 5, 6 - 8, and 9 - 12.
• Not a child of a contest judge or screener.
Winning entries are selected based on creativity and originality, ideas and feelings, and skill in the category (writing or art). Winners are notified in early April.
How to send your entry
1. Complete the form and mail or deliver entry to:
Growing Up Asian in America
Asian Pacific Fund
225 Bush Street, Suite 590
San Francisco, CA 94104
Or
2. Online option (for essays and poems only): go to www.AsianPacificFund.org, click on the Growing Up Asian in America link on the homepage to get the online entry form and instructions.
Entries must be postmarked or entered by 11:59 p.m., Thursday, March 10, 2011, or delivered in person by 5 p.m. that day. Sorry, no entries accepted by fax. Submitting materials to the contest is considered a grant of license to the Asian Pacific Fund to use the materials in any manner, including the creation of derivative works without payment of a royalty.
Questions?
Contact the Asian Pacific Fund at (415) 433-6859 or e-mail contest@asianpacificfund.org. More information on Growing Up Asian in America is available online at www.asianpacificfund.org
or www.nbcbayarea.com, search “Growing Up.”
More information here.
$27,000 in Savings Bond Awards
Theme: Lost & Found
Have you ever lost a thing like a favorite toy or sweater, or someone like a friend who moved away and later you found a new friend, or that losing the friend made you feel different or made you change your ideas?
Other things that you might have lost: a game, weight, another person through some sort of separation, a pet, your way while traveling somewhere, self-confidence, your privacy, the way you are Asian or feel about being Asian.
Losing can be good or bad. Finding can be part of new ideas or learning from things that happen to us.
Essays: Tell us about something or someone important that you lost and, later, what you found about that experience. When you lost something or found out how you felt, was it different because you are Asian or similar to other people?
For more information call (415) 433-6859
Growing Up Asian in America
Growing Up Asian in America is the largest celebration of Asian heritage in America. It serves as an important community resource, helping people of all backgrounds better understand the experiences of young Asian Americans and learn more about life in a place as diverse as the San Francisco Bay Area.
Growing Up Asian in America provides a unique forum for youth to explore their ideas and to celebrate being both Asian and American. This program also serves as an important community resource, helping people of all backgrounds better understand the experiences of young Asian Americans and learn more about life in a place as diverse as the San Francisco Bay Area.
Growing Up Asian in America is a program of the Asian Pacific Fund. Every year, around 1,400 Bay Area students in grades kindergarten through 12 submit artwork, essays and poems on a specific theme, and compete for $27,000 in prizes. Winners receive savings bond awards worth $1,000 to $2,000, and are honored at an awards ceremony at the Asian Art Museum. Special exhibits displaying the winning art work and essays go on tour during Asian Pacific Heritage Month, and they are hosted throughout the year by more than 50 public libraries all over the Bay Area. All winning entries are also archived online at the Asian Pacific Fund web site.
Student Eligibility
• All backgrounds including Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, other Asian or Pacific Islander ethnic groups, or mixed heritage are invited to submit entries.
• Grade K through 12.
• Live in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano or Sonoma County.
• Not have won a cash prize in the same grade or category (art or essay) in previous years. The three categories are grade K - 5, 6 - 8, and 9 - 12.
• Not a child of a contest judge or screener.
Winning entries are selected based on creativity and originality, ideas and feelings, and skill in the category (writing or art). Winners are notified in early April.
How to send your entry
1. Complete the form and mail or deliver entry to:
Growing Up Asian in America
Asian Pacific Fund
225 Bush Street, Suite 590
San Francisco, CA 94104
Or
2. Online option (for essays and poems only): go to www.AsianPacificFund.org, click on the Growing Up Asian in America link on the homepage to get the online entry form and instructions.
Entries must be postmarked or entered by 11:59 p.m., Thursday, March 10, 2011, or delivered in person by 5 p.m. that day. Sorry, no entries accepted by fax. Submitting materials to the contest is considered a grant of license to the Asian Pacific Fund to use the materials in any manner, including the creation of derivative works without payment of a royalty.
Questions?
Contact the Asian Pacific Fund at (415) 433-6859 or e-mail contest@asianpacificfund.org. More information on Growing Up Asian in America is available online at www.asianpacificfund.org
or www.nbcbayarea.com, search “Growing Up.”
More information here.
