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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
More on the politics of sandwiches.
From Human Events, a run down of the issues with Subway's homeschool exclusion.
Given the rate at which homeschooled children win the national spelling bee, perhaps Subway should have let a third grade home schooled student proof read its rules. In addition to spelling “united” as “untied,” the prizes included a “gift bastket” in lieu of a “gift basket.” Read more...
Labels: contests, homeschool
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Is Subway Refusing to Serve homeschoolers?
I've heard from various comments left on this blog that Subway Restaurants is explicitly excluding homeschoolers from a writing contest.
From the Official Rules:
2. ELIGIBILITY. Contest is open only to legal residents of the United States who are currently over the age of 18 and have children who attend elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted. Read more...
At first I thought this must be a hoax. I looked into this and it seems to be a legitimate Subway Franchisee Advertising Trust Fund website. I've heard of contests before that inadvertently exclude homeschoolers but they don't often specifically say "No Homeschoolers."
I also noticed WorldnetDaily picked up on this story. (Not that they are the seal of truth or anything.)
What are those Franchisees thinking?
Labels: contests, homeschool
Friday, February 22, 2008
Homeschool Drawing Contest
Tad from HomeschoolInfocenter.net asked me to tell you all about their 3rd annual drawing contest.
3nd Annual HomeschoolInfocenter.net Drawing Contest
There are 2 divisions. The theme for the Senior division is "Something unexpected", and the theme for the Junior division is "An ancient, mysterious object". There are great prizes available from PrizmArt for art supplies and from Lamplighter Publishing.
The deadline for this year is May 1, 2008 and fast approaching.
Full details are at:
http://www.homeschoolinfocenter.net/contest/hic_contest/27 Read more...
Labels: contests, homeschool
Monday, February 11, 2008
Winning Homeschool Videos
Laurel Springs, a private K-12 "distance-learning," school, asked home-schooled students to answer the question: What's cool about home school?
Below are some of the winners. There are more on their site.
Read more...
Labels: contests, homeschool
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Homeschooled students win aerospace contest
A team of home-schooled students from the East Valley won the Honeywell Fiesta Bowl Aerospace Challenge Friday, employing teamwork, dedicated research and confidence in their abilities.
"We knew we had our stuff down," said 14-year-old Ben Braaksma, an eighth-grader in the Kosmos Combined Homeschool Group in Gilbert. Read more...
Labels: contests, homeschool
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Homeschooler's Sports Writing Contest Coming soon.
In response to concerns about a earlier contest not being inclusive of homeschoolers, Walden Media and The Old Schoolhouse are now co-sponsoring the "Write Like Mike" Contest specifically for homeschoolers. It should be a fun contest, especially for sports fans. They mentioned our Kathy’s review of Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids in the email announcement.
Here's a link to the contest.
Labels: contests, homeschool
