The GFWC Fairmont Woman’s club offers several contests for youth in the area.  To find the rules for each contest use “Find” function on your computer to find the contest you are interested in from the list below.  Most Nebraska clubs offer these same contest so if you don’t live in the Fairmont area contact us or the Nebraska Federation of Women Clubs for a club near you.

          Also check out the page on this website on opportunities for youth.

 

Contest:                                                     

Youth Art Contest (K-12)                                            

High School Photography Contest                    

Youth Music Contest    (9-12)                                     

Youth Poetry and Short Story Contest (K-12)            

Childrens Art Contest (K-4)                                        

Young Womens Quiz Bowl (9-12)                                                  

 

 

YOUTH ART CONTEST

Any student from Fillmore Central School or any homeschooled student in the Fillmore County School district is eligible to enter the Fairmont Woman’s Club youth contest.

 

The GFWC Fairmont Art Contest will be held in January 2012. 

1st, 2nd and 3rd Places will be awarded in each grade K-8. 

1st, 2nd, 3rd Places will be awarded in each category in grades 9-12. 

Certificates will be awarded. 

1st place winners from each grade K-8 will go to District and winners there will go to the State Contest. 

1st Place winners in each category grades 9-12 will go to District and winners there will go to the State Contest.

 

RULES:

1.  Original work only.

2.  Maximum size 24 inches x 36 inches.

3.  Name and grade on the back of art work.

4.  Grades K-8 any media

5.  Grades *9-12

Possible categories:

oil/acrylic painting, watercolor painting, portrait, pen and ink drawing, charcoal drawing, Posters, pastel drawing, pencil drawing (black or colored, chalk drawing, sculpture (metal or wire, hand thrown pottery, clay, computer generated art, prints, collage, ceramics, abstract, other

Illustration original and copy work poems

 

HIGH SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST

The GFWC Fairmont Photography Contest will be held in January 2012. 

 

1.  Any student, grades 9-12, from Fillmore Central School or any homeschooled student in the Fillmore County School district is eligible to enter the Fairmont Woman’s Club youth contest.

2.  Entries must be matted. Size (including matting must be at least 10"x 12” but no larger than 14"x 16” with no frames or glass.

3.  The back of each photo must have an arrow drawn indicating the top.  Each photo must have the following information on the back: area name, category name; photographer's name, address & phone number; grade: name & state of sponsoring club; brief caption giving location and situation of the photo; photo title.

4.  Photos must be taken during the contest year (January 1 - December 31 annually.

 

DIVISIONS

1. Color prints from film

2. Black and white from film

3. Digital color prints

4. Digital black and white prints

 

CATAGORIES where students can enter their photos

1. SCENIC –Beautiful natural scenery, such as sky, land, water, etc.

2. ANIMALS – subject is an animal, wild or domestic

3. NATURE – Flowers, plants, etc.

4. STILL LIFE – non living objects

5. PEOPLE – formal and informal portraits, candid shots, etc.

6. ARCHITECTURAL - building, man-made objects, etc.

7. NEBRASKA

 

 

YOUTH POETRY & SHORT STORY CONTEST

1.   Any student from Fillmore Central School or any homeschooled student in the Fillmore County School district is eligible to enter the Fairmont Woman’s Club youth contest.

2.   Youth from grades K-12 may enter one poem and/or one short story.

3.  Manuscripts entered may not have been published prior to the competition and must be original work of the author.  Authors must be of amateur status.

 

RULES:

1.  Short stories limited to 2,000 words.

2.  Poems can be any style. Minimum length is eight lines. The maximum length is 30 lines.

3.  Name and grade of author must be on the poem or short story.

4.   Entries are preferred to be written on word processors or typewriters.  Hand written work will be accepted.

5.  Winners that go to the state contest will need to fill out a consent form for their work to be pppublished.

 

DEADLINE: December 20, 2011

Short Story and Poetry Contest entries will need to be to Nancy Galaway on or before December 20, 2011.  You can drop then at any Fillmore Central School office or the Fairmont Public Library.  You can also mail them to Nancy Galaway, PO Box 413, Fairmont, NE 68354 or e-mail them to ngalaway@windstream.net. 

 

AWARDS:

Certificates for first, second, and third place winners on local level will be awarded in each grade, K-12.

 

From the first place winners, one poem and one short story will be picked from each of the following categories to be entered in the Nebraska Federated Woman's club Poetry and short story contest. 

Categories One - Grades K, 1, and 2            

Categories Two - Grades 3, 4, and 5

Categories Three - Grades 6, 7, and 8          

Categories Four - Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

 

Winners on the state level will be published in the annual NFWC Women’s Club Anthology.  First place winner will go on to the national contest.

 

 

YOUTH MUSIC CONTEST

The music contest will be held in Seward, Nebraska in March 2012. 

There are three categories 1. Vocal 2. Piano 3. Instrumental

Any student from Fillmore Central School or any homeschooled student in the Fillmore County School district is eligible to enter the Fairmont Woman’s Club youth contest.

Application forms need to be sent in by the first of March.

 

AWARDS:

First Place winner in each category - $50, Second Place - $25 and Third Place - $15

Contact Nancy Galaway: ngalaway@windstream.net

 

 

Children’s Art Contest

Children’s Art contest for Nebraska Youth in Grades Kindergarten thru Fourth Grade.  The theme this year is the poem written by National Poet Laureate, Ted Koozer, titled “So This Is Nebraska.”  The children are to read the poem and depict what they think the poem means to them.  These will be judged and there will be honors given near Statehood Day.  The deadline for  these entries is FEBRUARY 1, 2012.    Last year we had over 3800 entries in this program so this is great and the entries came from all over the state of Nebraska.  

 

 

Young Woman’s Quiz Bowl

The NFWC holds a Quiz Bowl for young women in grades 9-12.  The Young Woman’s Quiz Bowl is usually held in, September  at the Seward Civic Center beginning at 8:30 a.m. with registration and the program goes until completed.  There are two tourneys:  Big Schools and Small Schools.  The cost is $50.00 per team which his made up of female students only in high school grades 9—12.  There can only be two teams per school and it is a double elimination tournament.  Prizes are medals and trophies and the honor of being the champions.  This is our 8^th annual Young Woman’s Quiz Bowl.