November 16, 2001

Boulder Rotary holding essay, poster contest; prizes include cash, scholarships, Spain trip

BOULDER — The Boulder Rotary Club and Rotary International are awarding cash prizes, scholarships and trips to Spain to winners of this year’s Poster and Essay Contest. Local youths age 12 to 15 living in Boulder County can submit posters and essays by Dec. 14 that address the question, ?How does helping others make the world a better place??

Posters and essays will be evaluated based on content and presentation, creativity and imagination, and expression of the contest theme. In addition to awarding prizes to winners of the local contest, the Boulder Rotary Club will submit one winner from each category to the Rotary International contest.

Winners in each category in Boulder will be awarded $75 for first place, $50 for second place and $25 for third place. One winner from each category will then be submitted to Rotary International for a shot at winning a scholarship and trip to Spain. Posters and essays from local finalists will be recognized at the Boulder Vision 2002 event on Feb. 7.

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For Rotary International prizes, winners in each category will receive a $2,000 scholarship for first place, a $1,000 scholarship for second place and a $500 scholarship for third place. First and second place winners of the international competition will travel to the 2002 Rotary International Convention in Barcelona, Spain, with their parents and up to one sibling at Rotary’s expense. The convention will be in late June 2002. Essay winners will read their essays during a plenary session at the convention, and poster winners will be acknowledged on stage.

Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Boulder Rotary Club is the second largest club in Colorado with 293 business, professional and community leaders. Chartered in 1919, the club provides thousand of dollars each year from the Boulder Rotary Foundation in support of community service organizations and scholarships for Boulder students, has members who participate widely in community affairs, and through its affiliation with Rotary International joins in international projects. Each year Boulder students study abroad and international students study in Boulder through Rotary programs.

For contest information, contact Ty Melton at (303) 473-9542.

BOULDER — The Boulder Rotary Club and Rotary International are awarding cash prizes, scholarships and trips to Spain to winners of this year’s Poster and Essay Contest. Local youths age 12 to 15 living in Boulder County can submit posters and essays by Dec. 14 that address the question, ?How does helping others make the world a better place??

Posters and essays will be evaluated based on content and presentation, creativity and imagination, and expression of the contest theme. In addition to awarding prizes to winners of the local contest, the Boulder Rotary Club will submit one winner from each…

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