Environmental Awareness Contest
Please note there have been changes in the Environmental Awareness Contest aka One World Challenge. The one main change is that the local schools will be advancing their 10% directly to state. Disregard the council
deadline of March 21 and be aware that the state deadline is March 31. I have
copied and pasted some info from the Format Criteria document.
---Students must enter all solutions/entires before the deadline
established by
their Local PTA/PTSA. Each Local PTA/PTSA participating in the program
will set
their own entry deadline. Solutions/entries are judged at the Local
PTA/PTSA level and the top 10% are forwarded directly to Texas PTA.
---Suggested local PTA/PTSA deadline – End of February, please confirm
this date
with your school’s PTA/PTSA.
---Entries advancing to Texas PTA must be received in the state office by
Thursday, March 31st at 5:00 pm.
Attached are some forms and information regarding the program. As
always, you
can refer to www.txpta.org for more.
General Student Guidelines
Advancing Students Spreadsheet
Judging Score Card
Requirements Checklist
Judging Tips
Format Criteria
I apologize for this confusion. Again, council will not be accepting and/or
judging in the Environmental Awareness Contest aka One World Challenge.
Thank you,
Celina Ibarra
Northside ISD Council of PTAs
Reflections
The 2011-2012 Reflections Theme is:
For all forms and documents for the Reflections Program, please visit the Texas PTA website at www.txpta.org/Programs/Reflections. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Celina Ibarra at
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NOTE: The CONSENT FORM is a new policy. Anyone participating other than the entering student in the taping, photographing, or audio recording of a PTA Reflections entry must complete this form. The parent gives consent for a student’s voice and or physical appearance to be included in the entry and agree that National PTA shall be the exclusive owner of copyright in such taping, photography or recording. It is understood that these entries may be judged at the local, regional, state, and national level. Entries may be displayed at a school or at another public area, including the Internet.
Deadlines
- Local PTA (School) - A Local PTA's Reflections deadline, for students to submit their entries, will be set by the school's PTA. Please check with the Arts in Education Chair or the PTA President for this deadline. Texas PTA recommends that the Local PTA set this deadline no earlier than October 31st. The Local PTA will advance 20% of their entries to the Council level.
- Council PTA - The Council PTA's Reflections deadline is Tuesday, November 29th from 10am-2pm at the Northside Activity Center located at 7001 Culebra Road (410 & Culebra). The Council PTA will advance 10% of their entries to the State level.
- Texas PTA - The Texas PTA Reflections deadline is January 18th. All advancing entries must be received by the deadline. Texas PTA will advance 24 entries to the National level. There will be one entry advanced from each age group in each arts area. State results will be posted on the Texas PTA Web site in March.
- National PTA - The National PTA Reflections deadline is March 2nd. National results will be announced between the months of June and July.
NOTE: Local PTAs who have not paid dues for at least 20 members by October 15 will be designated as inactive. Inactive PTAs are not eligible for Reflections awards beyond the local level.
Timeline for Returning Artwork
- Texas PTA will return all Visual Arts and Photography entries to the Reflections Chairs of each Council from which artwork was received.
- One shipment will be made to the Council Chairs once the exhibit pieces have been returned to the State office around mid May.
- The Council Chairs will arrange for the artwork to be delivered to their respective schools.
