2005/2006 Leading Edge Student Design Competition

The Leading Edge Student Design Competition seeks to support and enhance the study of
sustainable and energy-efficient building practices in Architectural Education. Now in our 13th
year, we invite students and instructors of Architecture and Design to use the competition as a
framework to explore the use of new materials and strategies for building, and the integration of
aesthetics and technology for high-performing, cutting edge architecture.

The first place entry in Challenge 1 and Challenge 2 will each receive $3,000. The second
place entry for each challenge will receive $2,000. In addition, the jury may award a number of
Certificates of Merit to projects that show outstanding effort in specific areas. The school,
college or university will receive $1,500 for sponsoring the first-place entry and $1,000 for
sponsoring the second-place entry. The competition reserves the right not to award first- or
second-place awards if no entry is deemed worthy by the jury.

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Photo Life – Showtime

This is an opportunity for everyone to take up the challenge and exercise their creative spirit, and at the same time run the chance of being published in Photo Life. Each participant can submit up to five (5) pictures per theme. The first place winner per issue is awarded $100.

Theme changes every edition. Here are the upcoming themes and deadlines: Up in the Sky - November 12, 2005Fireplaces - January 14, 2006Extreme Sports - March 11, 2006Morning Light - May 13, 2006Seascapes - July 15, 2006Ice - September 16, 2006


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1st Annual Wetpixel.com and DivePhotoGuide.com

Wetpixel.com and DivePhotoGuide.com have teamed up to celebrate the beauty and delicacy of the marine environment by developing the first instance of a new, annual, international underwater photography competition. For this inaugural event, only digital entries will be accepted.

Photographers will compete in six categories to win more than $25,000 in prizes, including premium dive travel, underwater photography equipment, and more! Dive packages in the prize list include trips to some of the top photo destinations in the world: the Solomon Islands, Lembeh Strait, Raja Ampat, Komodo, the Galapagos Islands, Papua New Guinea, Palau, and the Bahamas! Other prizes include HID lighting systems, camera housings, and other valuable items (see complete prize list below). 15% of entry proceeds will be donated to marine conservation efforts.

Winners will be announced on stage at the 2006 Our World-Underwater festival in Chicago, Illinois (February 24-26, 2006). The submission deadline is February 3, 2006.

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Kent and Sussex Poetry Society Open Poetrey Competition

Adjudicator: Elaine FeinsteinENTER ON LINE or download details at: www.kentandsussexpoetrysociety.org

See website for full details.

Deadline: 31st January 2006

International House of Japan Essay Contest

Theme: In Search of Coexistence for Plural Values What we can do to create a society and a world where we can share our values beyond cultural, ethnic and religious barriers.

Award: The winner will receive a prize of 300,000 yen. Two runner-ups will receive 100,000 yen each. Essays will be considered for publication in the International House Bulletin or Kaiho.
The essay shall be original and unpublished, in the English language (No more than 5,000 words) or in the Japanese language (No more than 12,000 characters). Essays must be postmarked on or before January 31, 2006.

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2006 National High School Essay Contest

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wants to know what
YOU THINK about the role of the Foreign Service and its membersin today's world!
Essay Winners Receive
1st place winner $2,500 (School/sponsoring organization - $500)
2nd place winner $1,250
3rd place winner $750

Your entry MUST be postmarked no later than March 1, 2006.

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BetterPhoto Photo Contest

The deadline for this month's contest is 12:00 Midnight, Pacific timeTuesday, January 31, 2006


Anyone can participate. Regardless of whether you are a professional or an amateur, a digital shooter or a film lover, an outdoor enthusiastic or a studio photographer, you can enter the contest. You can submit one photo per day, regardless of which category you place it in. You can only submit a given photo once - into one category - per any given contest month.
Images will be judged on overall photographic and artistic quality. Best of all, this contest is free! There are absolutely no entry fees... so enter today!

Grand Prize:Deluxe Web Site. 10 First Place Prizes: Tamrac #5746 Velocity 6 Compact Sling Pack or a Lensbaby with Macro Filters Second Place Prize: Premium Gallery

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Spring 2006 BlackNews.com Scholarship Essay Contest

The Spring 2006 BlackNews.com Scholarship will award $500 to an African-American student. The scholarship is NOT an academic scholarship - It is entirely based on an essay submission.
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The Best of Photo Journalism 2006 contest

The Contest Designed by Photojournalists for Photojournalists

Compete with the very best in still and television photojournalism, in picture editing, and Web editing. Now in its fifth year, the Best of Photojournalism (BOP) is the world's leading digital photojournalism contest.

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PDN Photo Annual 2006 - Call For Entries

The Marty Forscher Fellowship recognizes students and young professionals with a talent for humanistic photography. The fund will award two grants in 2006. Photographers are eligible by entering humanistic documentary images to the PDN Photo Annual.

Deadline for entries: 1/15/2006

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"What's in Your Kitchen?" photo contest

Mix it up! There are hundreds of "ingredients" other than food you can use in your "recipe" for a stunning photo. Just don't send us photos of food!Entries will be accepted from now until midnight, Saturday, January 28, 2006, Mountain Standard Time.

Grand Prize: The Shuttermom Gold Package from shuttermom.com, ACDSee 7.0 by ACDSystems, and Power Retouche Photoshop plug-ins for high quality photo editing, retouching and image editing.

1st Runner-up: Photoshop Elements 3 for Beginners DVD, compliments of Scott Kelby and KW Media Group and Compupic Pro from Photodex Corporation.

2nd Runner-up: A one-year subscription from Photo Techniques Magazine. and a one year subscription to The Art List

For more information: http://www.apogeephoto.com/contest.shtml

The 3rd Annual Smithsonian magazine Photo Contest

The editors of Smithsonian invite you to enter the third annual Smithsonian magazine Photo Contest. We are looking for remarkable images, photographed within the past three years (since January 1, 2003), that relate to five subjects of special interest to our magazine: Americana, The Natural World, People, Travel and, our new category, Altered Images. The on-line competition is open to amateur photographers, 18 years and older.

Category winners will be awarded $500. The grand prize winner will receive a four-day, three-night Smithsonian Journeys Grand Canyon Weekend Adventure for two or the cash equivalent.

http://photocontest.smithsonianmag.com/