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2014 Contest Details

Upload Contest Entries at Contest Upload page
  • Last day to submit entires is: Monday - Mar. 3, 2014 - 11.59 PM


Competition flyer can be downloaded from here.

Contest Topics: Please also check the guidelines after the contest topics.

  • Please share with us your child's achievements - educational, personal or in any field! Write to us contest at balagokulam.org with SUBJECT: Achievements

    First grade and below:

    • Artwork - Any paintaing/drawing/sketch. Suggested Topic - Most Beautiful Creation.
    • Essay - Any topic. Suggested topic - "My trip". (limit 200 words).
    • Creativity Project - Artwork with sticks, leaves and flowers.

    Second and third grade:

    • Artwork - Any paintaing/drawing/sketch. Suggested Topic - Most Beautiful Creation.
    • Essay - Any topic. Suggested topic - My trip. (limit 200 words).
    • Poem - Any topic. Suggested topic - My wish.
    • Creativity Project - Artwork with sticks, leaves and flowers.

    Fourth and Fifth grade:

    • Artwork - Any paintaing/drawing/sketch. Suggested Topic - Most Beautiful Creation.
    • Essay - My life (Write an essay from a animal's perspective. Assume you are an animal - e.g. a songbird, or a fly, or a lion. Write from that animal's perspective about a day/month/year in its life or about its complete life. (limit 300 words)
    • Story - Any moral story born out of your experience or imagination. (limit 300 words)
    • Poem - Any topic. Suggested topic - My wish. (limit 13 lines)
    • Creativity Project - Artwork with sticks, leaves and flowers.

    Sixth grade to Eighth grade:

    • Artwork - Any paintaing/drawing/sketch. Suggested Topic - Most Beautiful Creation.
    • Essay - My life (Write an essay from a animal's perspective. Assume you are an animal - e.g. a songbird, or a fly, or a lion. Write from that animal's perspective about a day/month/year in its life or about its complete life. (limit 300 words)
    • Story - Any moral story born out of your experience or imagination. (limit 300 words)
    • Poem - Any topic. Suggested topic - My wish. (limit 13 lines)
    • Creativity Project - Artwork with sticks, leaves and flowers.

    All other content outside given contest categories: (use category 'Other' while uploading such content).

    • You can also upload all other content including but not limited to jokes, puzzles, riddles, and achievements that parents and children would like to contribute to Magazine. These entries would not be evaluated as part of contest. However these would be considered for publication in the magazine.

    Prizes:

    • Medals to first and second place winners!
    • Winners would be announced on Varsha-Pratipada (March 23, 2014).

    Contest Topics Guidelines:

    • Why are there suggested topics?
      • Suggested topics are for guidance purpose. In case your balagokulam or children center is planning to organize contests for mass participation in Balagokulam Mgazine contests, you can use these topics to guide thoughts of children.
    • Clarification/Difference between story and essay
      • Essays are non-fiction write-ups build around some central idea. A well-written essay should have introduction, body and an ending.
      • Stories are usually fiction write-ups; however they can also describe real life events. A well-written story usually has a description about the setting/place, characters and sequence of events that are referred as a plot.
    • What is a creativity project?
      • Using material mainly dervied from trees (such as sticks, flowers, and leaves) create any kind of artwork.
      • Encourage children to think freely, apply their conventional as well as non-conventional thinking, and use their imagination to create different artwork.
Rules:

  • All entries in the children's age group MUST be contributed by the children only.
  • The contestants hold the responsibility to submit the contest entries in correct age category. (The age group should be determined according to the contest submission deadline.
  • The editorial team reserves the right to modify/edit the entries slightly to suit the magazine needs. However we would take utmost care that the editedentries are as close as possible to the submitted entry.
  • One can participate in as many as contests as possible and can submit more than one entries for each category.


Judging Criterion:
The entries would be judged by a panel of three judges chosen from different parts of USA. If you would like to participate in the judging process, then please contact contest at balagokulam dot org. While judging the entries, due consideration would be given to the theme, originality, content presentation and compatibility with objectives of Balagokulam Magazine. The entries carrying a positive message would be given preference for publication into the magazine. Depending on the quality and number of entries received, contents that do not exactly fit to the above description also would be reviewed and considered for awarding the prizes.
Entries that are submitted after the due date will not be considered for the competition. These would be used by Balagokulam editorial board as appropriate.

For further questions, comments and suggestions regarding any of the aspect of the Balagokulam magazine please contact to contest at Balagokulam dot org.

Previous Competitions

2012 VarshaPratipada Competitions: Results

2011 Diwali Competitions: Results

2009 Diwali Competitions: Results

2008 Diwali Competitions: Results

2007 November Competitions: Results

2007 February Competitions: Results

2006 August Competitions: Results

2006 February Competitions: Results

 

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