Deadline: 7 March 2012
2012 CONTEST THEME: BRIDGES
In 2012 we celebrate the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge. This year’s contest theme is about bridges and what they can symbolize or do for us. A bridge can help us cross over an obstacle, like a river or a busy street. It can help us get through a problem or challenge in life. A bridge connects two things—like people, places or ideas. Even a person can be a bridge. You might cross a bridge when you go on a journey or trip, learn a new language, move to a new place or a new school, or make new friends. *You do not have to answer any of the questions below, as long as your entry is about bridges and being Asian and American.
IDEAS & SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR ESSAY, POEM OR PICTURE:
• Show or tell us about a bridge that took you to a new place, helped you see things in a new way, or connects two things that are important to you. Your bridge might be a person, place or thing.
• Describe or draw the things your bridge connects, and why that connection is important. Where did you start and where did you end?
• Have you been a bridge, or do you know someone who has been a bridge, by connecting people or ideas? It could be someone like a teacher, translator, friend or neighbor. Has this bridge brought friends together or solved a problem?
• Does being Asian help or make it harder to be a bridge? Does it affect how this person is a bridge?
• Has being Asian made the bridges you crossed any different from the bridges other people have to cross?
• Show or tell us about a journey that took you to a new place, changed you or taught you a valuable lesson.
• Did your journey teach you something or make you think in a new way? Your journey might be a trip, moving to a new school, making or losing friends, learning to ride a bike, solving a problem, trying something scary, learning a language, or getting in a fight and then making up with someone.
• What did you learn from your journey? How did it change the way you see things? At the end of the journey, how were you different?
• How did being Asian make your journey interesting, easier or harder?
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.
• Grades K through 12
• Lives in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco,
San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano or Sonoma County
• Cannot 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.
• Is 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 below and mail or deliver entry to:
Growing Up Asian in America
Asian Pacific Fund
225 Bush Street, Suite 590
San Francisco, CA 94104
Entries must be postmarked by 11:59 p.m., Wednesday, March 7, 2012, or delivered in person by 5 p.m. that day.
*SORRY, NO ENTRIES ACCEPTED ONLINE OR 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. The Asian Pacific Fund is a tax-exempt non-profit organization and will only use these materials to further its charitable and educational.
ENTRY GUIDELINES
Essay or Poem
Format: 8-1/2” x 11” paper, minimum font size 12. Hand- written essays accepted. Please print or write on one side only.
General
You may send one entry in each category (e.g. one piece of writing and one piece of art). If you send two pieces of writing or two pieces of art, only one will be considered. Art is judged separately from essays and poems, so please do not submit an entry that combines writing with art.
Each entry must have a complete entry form. If you send one artwork and one essay, please complete one form for each.
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.”
Download entry form here >>
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For inquiries: contest@asianpacificfund.org
For submissions: Growing Up Asian in America, Asian Pacific Fund, 225 Bush Street, Suite 590, San Francisco, CA 94104
Website: http://www.asianpacificfund.org
2012 CONTEST THEME: BRIDGES
In 2012 we celebrate the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge. This year’s contest theme is about bridges and what they can symbolize or do for us. A bridge can help us cross over an obstacle, like a river or a busy street. It can help us get through a problem or challenge in life. A bridge connects two things—like people, places or ideas. Even a person can be a bridge. You might cross a bridge when you go on a journey or trip, learn a new language, move to a new place or a new school, or make new friends. *You do not have to answer any of the questions below, as long as your entry is about bridges and being Asian and American.
IDEAS & SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR ESSAY, POEM OR PICTURE:
• Show or tell us about a bridge that took you to a new place, helped you see things in a new way, or connects two things that are important to you. Your bridge might be a person, place or thing.
• Describe or draw the things your bridge connects, and why that connection is important. Where did you start and where did you end?
• Have you been a bridge, or do you know someone who has been a bridge, by connecting people or ideas? It could be someone like a teacher, translator, friend or neighbor. Has this bridge brought friends together or solved a problem?
• Does being Asian help or make it harder to be a bridge? Does it affect how this person is a bridge?
• Has being Asian made the bridges you crossed any different from the bridges other people have to cross?
• Show or tell us about a journey that took you to a new place, changed you or taught you a valuable lesson.
• Did your journey teach you something or make you think in a new way? Your journey might be a trip, moving to a new school, making or losing friends, learning to ride a bike, solving a problem, trying something scary, learning a language, or getting in a fight and then making up with someone.
• What did you learn from your journey? How did it change the way you see things? At the end of the journey, how were you different?
• How did being Asian make your journey interesting, easier or harder?
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.
• Grades K through 12
• Lives in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco,
San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano or Sonoma County
• Cannot 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.
• Is 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 below and mail or deliver entry to:
Growing Up Asian in America
Asian Pacific Fund
225 Bush Street, Suite 590
San Francisco, CA 94104
Entries must be postmarked by 11:59 p.m., Wednesday, March 7, 2012, or delivered in person by 5 p.m. that day.
*SORRY, NO ENTRIES ACCEPTED ONLINE OR 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. The Asian Pacific Fund is a tax-exempt non-profit organization and will only use these materials to further its charitable and educational.
ENTRY GUIDELINES
Essay or Poem
Format: 8-1/2” x 11” paper, minimum font size 12. Hand- written essays accepted. Please print or write on one side only.
General
You may send one entry in each category (e.g. one piece of writing and one piece of art). If you send two pieces of writing or two pieces of art, only one will be considered. Art is judged separately from essays and poems, so please do not submit an entry that combines writing with art.
Each entry must have a complete entry form. If you send one artwork and one essay, please complete one form for each.
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.”
Download entry form here >>
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For inquiries: contest@asianpacificfund.org
For submissions: Growing Up Asian in America, Asian Pacific Fund, 225 Bush Street, Suite 590, San Francisco, CA 94104
Website: http://www.asianpacificfund.org
