WORDS Competition Information

• Students can submit essays, poems, dances, artwork, songs, and multimedia presentations.

• Submissions must be relevant to the theme “The Changing World Outside My Window: Where am I from? / Where am I going?”

• Each student must speak for a minimum of 1 minute in English. Students can use this time to describe their art or performance. Each entry should be at least 2 minutes and no more than 5 minutes.

• Each student must give the judges a copy of what they will be speaking.

• The written submission should be at least 50 words and no more than 500. Entries more than 500 words will be considered.

• English Teaching Assistants (ETAs) cannot help in any way with a student’s submission before the competition, except helping students understand the theme and rules.

• Each school will hold an in-school competition with one winner traveling to compete in Jakarta.

• All schools will use the same rubric (scorecard) and it will be available for students to see before the competition.

• The winner of each school competition will travel to Jakarta with their ETA on April 9 – 11, 2010.

• The winners of the Jakarta competition will receive scholarships.

• Students traveling to Jakarta with the ETA will need a permission form signed by their parents. The form will be given after students are selected.

February 1 : Start date of school competition
February 26 : Student submission deadline at schools.
March 6 : Top three finalists submission from each school to regional judging committee.
March 13 : Deadline for school competitions.
March 19 : Finalists’ names must be submitted to AMINEF.
April 9 : ETAs and finalists travel to Jakarta.
April 10 : Day of competition.
April 11 : ETAs and finalists return home.

If you need help understanding the topic, please contact Miss Alexa or another English teacher at SMA 1 Limboto. I will be posting examples of previous submissions soon.