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PRESS RELEASE — Wednesday, January 30, 2008
For information contact: Karen Svea Johnson at 373-7369
or Anne Peterson at 373-7368READING RAINBOW Young Writers, Illustrators Contest Takes Entries Until March 25 Deadline
Idaho Public Television is calling on students in kindergarten through third grade to enter the 14th Annual READING RAINBOW Young Writers and Illustrators Contest. The deadline for entries is March 25.
Entry forms and additional information are available beginning February 1 from the Idaho Public Television Web site: www.idahoptv.org/kids. Information is also available through all Idaho elementary schools and libraries.
Sponsored by the award-winning PBS television series READING RAINBOW, the contest attracts almost 1,000 entries statewide and more than 40,000 entries nationally each year. IdahoPTV, together with more than 100 other PBS stations nationwide, sponsor and promote the contest. Students enter the contest by creating an original story with illustrations and submitting it with an official entry form.
Submit entries to the nearest IdahoPTV station: KAID/KIPT in Boise, KISU in Pocatello or KUID/KCDT in Moscow. Idaho judges determine the winners at each station for each grade category. Entries are judged on originality, creative expression, storytelling and integration of text and illustrations.
All first-place stories are sent to compete at the national contest. National entries vie for prizes such as a laptop computer, flat panel TV or an MP3 player. Each of the 12 national winners also receives three sets of 10 READING RAINBOW DVDs and books — one set each for home, school and community library.
Fliers promoting the contest have been distributed to schools and public libraries throughout Idaho.
To enter:
- * Obtain an entry form and rules at a public library, elementary school, or from idahoptv.org/kids on the IdahoPTV Web site.
- * Submit a story that contains at least five illustrations. Stories should be between from 50 to 200 words (kindergarten and first grade) or from 100 to 350 words (second and third grade). Text can be typed or handwritten, or dictated to an adult by a child who cannot write.
- * Have a sponsoring teacher or parent sign the entry form granting permission to use the entry for promotional purposes. The teacher or parent’s signature is required to enter the contest.
Visit the IdahoPTV Web site (idahoptv.org/kids) to see winning entries from the 2007 contest. READING RAINBOW, hosted by LeVar Burton, airs on IdahoPTV weekdays at 2:30/1:30 p.m. MT/PT.
Local support of the READING RAINBOW contest is provided by the J.A. & Kathryn Albertson Foundation Education Fund in the Idaho Community Foundation.