Deadline to enter WQPT Young Writers & Illustrators Contest in two weeks

WQPT, Quad Cities PBS invites you to write and illustrate your own story. Students in
Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade and 3rd Grade can enter. Stories can be fact of
fiction, prose or poetry. Story must be original work of the child. Every entrant
will receive a Certificate of Achievement signed by Reading Rainbow host LeVar
Burton. Sixteen winners (four selected from each grade) will receive local recognition on
our station and win special prizes.

Winning stories will be displayed at Butterworth Center in Moline, Illinois; the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa; and the Family Museum in Bettendorf, Iowa. First place winters will compete for national prizes.

Entry forms and rules may be downloaded at www.wqpt.org/storycontest or contact Ana Kehoe, WQPT Outreach Director at (309)796-2424 or kehoea@bhc.edu.

Stories must be postmarked by Thursday, April 10, 2008 and sent to WQPT, 6600 34 Ave., Moline, Illinois 61265 or delivered to the WQPT offices in Building 2 at Black Hawk College in Moline, Illinois. Winners will be notified the last week in April.

Twelve national winners will also be chosen for the national contest with three national winners for each grade level. The national grand prize is a laptop computer, second place is a flat panel TV with DVD player, third place is a MP3 player. Each of the national winners also receives Reading Rainbow Library sets of 5 DVDs and books for their home, school and library.

The contest is locally sponsored by:
WQPT, Butterworth Center & Deere Wiman House,
FIGGE and Family Museum

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