Constitution Day Essay Contest for Students

The subject is privacy.

Let’s hear from all you liberty minded youth what you think about this subject.

http://www.courts.state.nh.us/student/contest.htm

Essay Contest Rules

Eligibility : All students in grades 5-12 in the circulation areas of participating newspapers.

Deadline for Submissions : Essays must be postmarked by Oct. 5, 2012

Rules :

1. Each essay should be type written and no longer than 300 words. Submissions will be judged on understanding of the issue, clear writing and thinking, presentation, grammar and spelling.

2. Each essay should be the sole product of the student’s work.

3. Submissions should include the writer’s name, age, grade, school, home address, home telephone, parent e-mail address, teacher name and teacher e-mail address. Winners will be notified by telephone.

4. Employees of participating newspapers and immediate family members are not eligible to win.

5. One essay per student.

6. Each essay may be submitted to only one newspaper listed below. The student must live in that newspaper’s circulation area.

7. Essays will not be returned.

Each participating newspaper will select a winner from essays submitted for grades 5-8 and for grades 9-12. A statewide winner for each group will then be selected by a justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

For information and to register for a workshop, The Constitution for Teachers, on Aug. 8 at the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications, go to www.loebschool.org