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High school Design Contests........Please

Posted on Aug 19, 2012 by marcia blanco Latest activity: Sep 1, 2012

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One of the requirements that I want to have for my seniors this year is to enter a competition in whatever area of design and visual communication that they find interesting. I live in Vermont and there are a couple of very narrow choices and of course we have a chapter of SKILLS, but we do that as a class and I'd like the kids to take the initiative to compete on their own. Does anyone know of any design or photography/video competitions specifically for high school students?

Comments (5)

Karen Hellyer

Posted on Feb 20, 2013 4:35 AM - Permalink

Hi Marcia, Sorry for coming into this conversation late, but I can think of a couple resources you might look into. One is the Society for Photographic Education, which is a great resource for teachers of photography. It's mostly geared at college level, but has an emerging group of high school educators showing interest in all sorts of issues. That link is https://www.spenational.org/resources/calls-for-entry. Also, Photo.net (http://photo.net/photo-contests/) and Communication Arts (http://www.commarts.com/competitions) are good places to look as well, although I'm not sure they have age-specific categories for competing. They might also try submitting their work in local publications. Good luck!

Tacy Trowbridge

Posted on Feb 19, 2013 7:54 PM - Permalink

If your students are taking Adobe Certified Associates exams in Visual Communication using Photoshop, they would qualify for the first ACA Championship hosted this summer in Washington D.C. For more information, check out http://www.certiport.com/portal/common/htmllibrary/ACAchampionship/home.html. Let us know if your students participate in a contest, what is valuable about the experience, and how they fare.

Matt Cauthron

Posted on Sep 1, 2012 2:56 PM - Permalink