NGC YOUTH ACTIVITIES

Poetry Contest

2011 Theme - Choose One:

"Colorful Fruits" or "Tasty Vegetables"

2012 Theme - "Protecting Our Aguatic Friends"

Now is the time to excite and encourage our Youth to express & explore their creative thoughts through different types of poetry. This term's NGC Poetry Contest entitled above, enables our Youth to embrace their creativity through the art of writing!   Be imaginative & join the winners to see your poetry in a printed booklet!

Eligibility: Special Education & English as a Second Language: Kindergarten through Ninth Grade. General Education: Kindergarten through Ninth Grade.

Contest Rules: 1.AB entries must be typed and titled. 2. Include name, address, age, grade, school of participant on the back of entry. 3. Sponsoring garden club and state federation/club name must also be identified. 4. Sponsoring garden club may be that of a Grandparent. 5. All entries become the property ofNGC, Inc. 6. Poems do not have to rhyme. 7. Poems may be traditional verse, acrostics, blank verse, cinquains, diamond poems, limerick or Haiku.

Scale of Points: Title - 10; Content - 40; Creativity - 30; Style - 20

Deadlines: Entries to YOUR State Youth Chairman – Observe Your State Deadline.

State Winning Entries to Regional Junior Chairman - January 1,  2012/2013; Regional Winners to National Chairman - February 1, 2012/2013.

Johnna-Claire Metz, NGC Youth Activities Chair, 24 State Rd,

Breezy Point, New York 11697-2203; (718) 377-7263;

Johclam@aol.com

Note: Only Regional winners are considered in the judging for National winners.  Contest winners will not be allowed to win in two consecutive years. All of the winning entries will be compiled into a booklet, which will be made available to the winners!