2000-2001 ESSAY CONTEST
Subject: Youth Apprenticeships
Using the required reading as background, and the Internet as a research tool, come up with either your own youth apprenticeship plan or reasons to support an existing proposal that you discover via your research. Include in your essays arguments pro and con and make sure your proposal, or the proposal you champion, is able to overcome the objections raised.
First Prize
= $100
Second Prize = $ 7 5
Third Prize
= $ 25
Anyone may enter. There are three categories: (1) Schools that submit a minimum of ten essays from one class. Three prizes will be awarded to every school that submits a minimum of ten qualifying entries. (2) Schools with fewer than ten students submitting essays. They will have their essays merged with other schools in the same situation. (3) Individuals of any age. They will find their work displayed as Unaffiliated and their essays will be judged with others in this category. Never will an essay be judged against more than 30 essays in any category.
The prizes will be awarded at the discretion of the Singer Foundation. The judging will be based on how well the rules were followed, thoughtfulness and a zeal for pursuing the subject as evidenced by the work submitted. Answers to questions to the required reading are considered.
Submittals that are too short or do not abide by other rules, will not qualify for prizes. Please consult the rules. All participants will receive certificates and their essays will be published online.
Papers may be emailed to contest@singerfoundation.org anytime
before December 1, 2001.All participants will receive certificates and their essays will
be published online.
Rules
1. All quotations used in essays must be noted and cited at the end of the work. The only notation in the body of the paper should be quotation marks. No quote should exceed four sentences.
2. All essays must be typed into a computer (English only) double spaced, checked for grammatical and spelling errors and be no less than 750 words nor more than 1,000 words in length. Do not send print copies.
3. Answers to the Questions, to be answered after completing the Required Reading, must accompany each essay in order for that essay to be considered for a prize.
Please be sure to keep copies at your end until you receive your awards. Please contact us with questions or problems: staff@singerfoundation.org
or 831-625-4223.
Excerpts from the essays will be posted on the Foundation web site as they are read. Entries, upon submittal, become the property of The Harry Singer Foundation.