Design Opportunities-Archived

All design opportunities that are taken advantage of will earn the student an extra credit design grade.

Graphic Competitions - A website that lists contests and competitions from around the world. It is updated all the time! You can subscribe to their newsletter and get email messages about new contests.

2009 Unikeep Awards Contest

Unique Opportunity - you must be at least 13 years of age:
Here is a little information:
Post your cover on your site or ours - enter online; All entries will be available for download in the UniKeep Gallery

First 25 entries each month receive FREE UniKeep Binder. Win $100 monthly cash prizes in each category:

1 - Arts & entertainment
2 - Business & professional
3 - Education
4 - Hobbies & recreation
5 - Sports

$500 grand prizes in each category
$1,500 for overall Best of Show
Contest open to participants ages 13 and up.
Entries will be accepted online January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.

Go to the website for more details! (25 points for a serious entry)

Love Your Body: 2010 Poster Contest

Deadline: Postmarked December 1, 2009

Past Love Your Body Poster Contest Winners

The National Organization for Women Foundation is hosting a poster contest to celebrate the Love Your Body Campaign.

The grand prize winning poster will be used as part of a national campaign to challenge the media's use of violent, drug-addicted, starved, surgically-enhanced images of women and to fight against industries that profit from women’s dissatisfaction with their bodies.

Copyrighted Images/Subjects: Original signed release forms are required for copyrighted images or materials. Release forms are also needed for "subjects," whether public or private citizens. Release forms are not provided by NOW Foundation.

Artwork: Poster should be no larger than 9" x 12". The poster must include the words 2010 Love Your Body Campaign and the NOW Foundation web site address, www.nowfoundation.org.

Prizes

Category I: $400 prize for open competition (non-student)
Category II: $400 prize for undergraduate or graduate student
Category III: $200 prize for high school student
Category IV: $100 prize for elementary and middle school student

Please go to the website for more detailed information, submission requirements, etc. Love Your Body (40 points for each serious entry)

National Association of conservation 2009 "Dig It! The Secrets of Soil" Poster Contest.

The 2009 Poster Contest theme is "Dig It! The Secrets of Soil." NACD is using the Dig It! theme in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Soil Science Society of America. This collaboration will complement the Smithsonian "Dig It! The Secrets of Soil," exhibition, which will run July 19, 2008 through January 3, 2010 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. and travel to museums across the United States May 2010 to September 2013.

Entry deadline is December 1, 2009. For more information visit the website!

** Imagine Cup ***

The World's Premiere Student Technology Competition!

An opportunity of a lifetime! Must be 16 years and older. Work with a partner or a team! There are nine categories to choose from. Go to the site and read everything!

(100 points extra credit for each member of the team)

Links to more contests:

TeeeJuice - Design t-shirts - Weekly winners and prizes

TeenInk - Calling all artists and photographers! Enter Teen Ink's monthly Art & Photography Contest and win the chance to showcase your creative work in a national magazine.

Don't forget to look on the Extra Credit page for more ways to earn a better grade!