Cal Poly students are active in their community, making a difference through volunteering and service-learning. Now we want to know how -- and we want the world to know about the great things you're doing too, so we're sponsoring this contest.

Prizes

• 1 Grand Prize Winner will receive a $500 Bronco Bookstore Gift Card
• Up to 2 Second and Third Prize Winners will receive a $250 Bronco Bookstore Gift Card
• Up to 20 Honorable Mention Winners will receive a Canvas Messenger Bag
• The first 100 entrants will receive either a insulated lunchbag or flying disk
• All entrants will receive a Center for Community Service-Learning ballpoint pen

What You Should Write About

We're not looking for numbers, we're looking for real stories of personal and community transformation through service: What did you do in the community? Did it make a difference? How do you know? Just as important, what did you learn from the experience? How did you change because of it? Did it change how you view yourself, your place in the world, or your career? How?

We're especially interested in well-written, evocative narratives that make us feel like we were there, so focus on descriptions of specific events: conversations you had, descriptions of the setting, details about the people involved and what happened. If you were in a service-learning class, feel free to use the reflection essay you wrote for class as your entry.

We recommend that compose your essay in another program such as Word and cut it and paste it into the form. Well-written essays free of spelling and grammatical errors have a better chance of winning, so be sure to proofread!

Contest Rules and Guidelines

• Entries should be between 500 and 1500 words long
• Entries must be submitted via the form at right.
• Entries must be submitted by the author of the essay.
• Only Cal Poly undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for prizes.
• Authors submitting essays must be 18 years of age.
• All entries must be submitted by 5 p.m. June 15, 2008. The anticipated date winners will be announced is June 30, 2008.
• All prizes can be picked up in the Center for Community Service-Learning office in building 1, room 113.
• Authors submitting essays grant to the Center for Community Service-Learning and the California State University, its employees and agents permission to edit and use the essays submitted in any manner or media in whole or in part without notifying the author (such as publications, promotions, broadcasts, websites and advertisements, as well as for non-university uses) including the right to reassign these rights to another party.
• By entering, the author waives any right to inspect or approve the finished printed or electronic matter that may be used with them.
• The author will always be credited for authorship.
• The author releases the Center for Community Service-Learning, the CSU and its employees and agents, including any firm authorized to publish and/or distribute a finished product containing the essays or excerpts of the essays, from any claims, damages or liability which I may ever have in connection with the use of the material.

Email sposey@csupomona.edu

Enter the Contest Name: Cal Poly Email: Mailing Address: Phone: Bronco ID: Major: I am a: Freshperson Sophomore Junior Senior Graduate Student If the experience you are writing about was part of a class, please write the name of the class, term and instructor here: I affirm that I am 18 years of age or older. I agree to the terms of the contest as stated in the contest rules and guidelines. Cut and paste your contest entry into the field below (500-1500 words):