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The Arizona HOMESCHOOL HeartBeat
May
2008
Volume 9, Issue 5
Even though Arizona is in
our name,
we also cover news items of interest across the nation.
CONTESTS
America's Favorite Mom
Progessive Insurance XCar $10M Contest
Washington & Lincoln '08 - The Great Debate
HSLDA Monthly Contest
GoodSearch
Contest
Science
Fair/Invention Convention
New Writing Contest Website
Sew Jo-Ann PROM
CONTEST
HSLDA 25th Anniversary: Your Homeschooling
Memories Wanted
AMERICA’S FAVORITE MOM
Deadline: May 11th
Is there a
Mom in your life that you would love to honor? Here is one way.
Nominate her for
America’s Favorite Mom, and she may be selected to be on the Today Show the
week of Mother’s Day.
There are many other
prizes, including:
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$250,000 cash prize
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GE Cafe appliances,
including full kitchen range,
refrigerator, microwave and dishwasher
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GE Frontload washer and dryer
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Diamond encrusted pendant
inscribed "America's Favorite Mom"
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Flowers for a full year from Teleflora
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A rose named for her,
compliments of Teleflora
·
All-expenses-paid trip to New York City,
courtesy of Redbook.
Winner and a guest will be flown to NYC for a 2-night, 3-day stay at a
luxurious hotel. Winner will also receive a full beauty make-over, spa
day, shopping spree and lunch at Michael.s Restaurant with Stacy
Morrison, Editor in Chief of Redbook
Gourmet gift basket compliments of Kraft Singles
To register and nominate
your favorite MOM:
http://americasfavoritemom.com/florist
For more details and
information:
http://americasfavoritemom.com/mothers-day-2008/static/faq?faq=4
On March 20th at the New York
International Auto Show, the X PRIZE Foundation and Progressive Insurance
jointly announced the $10 million dollar Progressive Insurance Automotive X
PRIZE. "Let the race begin!" said X PRIZE Chairman and CEO Dr. Peter Diamandis.
Complete details
here.
People love their cars. They are vital links to our jobs,
our community, ourselves. For everything we love about them, cars are chained
to the most severe global crises of our time: oil dependence and climate
change.
Through an exciting partnership with Progressive Insurance,
the newly renamed Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE invites teams from
around the world to focus on a single goal: design viable, clean and
super-efficient cars that people want to buy.
This will be a race for the ages, with major publicity and
$10 million waiting for the champions… and perhaps our future hanging in the
balance.
Download and
review the draft competition guidelines...
Thank you for your interest in the Progressive Insurance
Automotive X
PRIZE. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your insight and
hope that you will continue to watch the competition unfold. Many great
things continue to happen and it is an exciting time. Registration has
not yet officially opened, but should in the next couple of months -- it
will remain open for 90 days after that.
Please make sure to check our web site (www.progressiveautoxprize.org
)
from time-to-time to stay abreast of what is going on. We will also add
you to our mailing list so that you will always have the latest news.
Becky Lewis, Specialist
X PRIZE Foundation | Communications
1441 4th Street | Suite 200 | Santa Monica | CA 90401
Direct: 310.582.5948 | Cell: 310.883.8537 | Email:
becky.lewis@xprize.org
Revolution Through Competition |
www.xprize.org
X PRIZE Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to
bring about breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The Foundation
awards large incentive prizes to individuals and teams to achieve
targeted solutions to global challenges in energy/environment, life
sciences, education, global entrepreneurship and the exploration of deep
space and ocean depths.
April-June 2008
HSLDA MONTHLY CONTEST
Topic:
“What is your family’s favorite or funniest homeschool moment ever?”
Instructions: Describe it in 50 words or less.
Winners: One winner per month of the quarter
Award: $50 cash award
Email your contest entries to
celebrate25@hslda.org.
GoodSearch Contest
Submission Deadline: Midnight, April 19
With the nation in an economic downturn,
charitable donations falling and education budgets being cut, nonprofits and
schools need your support more than ever! Covenant Home School Resource Center is signed up and ready for your support.
GoodSearch
and
GoodShop
are two of the easiest ways to help in these difficult times, but we need you
to spread the word...
1) Please place a GoodShop and
GoodSearch logo
on your website. (Each time you do a search on
GoodSearch and connect Covenant Home School Resource Center to your search bar, money gets credited to Covenant's account.)
2) Buy all of your office supplies, gifts and other purchases through
GoodShop.
3) Send an
email
to your friends and family reminding them to use GoodShop and
GoodSearch
More than 56,000 nonprofits and schools are now participating in
GoodSearch
and 100 more continue to join each day! Thank you as always for your support!
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GoodSearch Video Contest! |
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We've
launched a contest to help raise awareness for all of the great causes you
support!
To enter, just create a video saying who you GoodSearch for. The nonprofit
highlighted in the winning video will be featured on the GoodSearch
homepage will also receive a $100 donation.
For more information, and to check out all the great videos that have
already been created, click here --
www. youtube.com/group/goodsearch
We can't wait to see the videos you or your organization's supporters
create! |
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GoodShop Earns Large Donations for Nonprofits!
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What's
the fastest way to generate big donations for your cause?
Easy, it's
GoodShop! Here are a few examples...
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A purchase at
Target.com earned $80 for Chaves County CASA (Court Appointed Special
Advocates). |
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An order at
Adobe.com generated a $100 donation for the Soldiers Angels Foundation. |
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Sunshine Cottage
School for the Deaf earned $40 from an order on Zappos.com. |
If you
shop online at Amazon, eBay, Target, Gap, Staples, Best Buy, J.Crew, or
any of more than 600 top stores, remember to go to GoodShop.com first and
link over to these retailers.
A significant percentage of virtually every purchase will go toward your
favorite cause! |
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Where Does The Money Go?
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Money contributed to
Covenant Home School Resource Center will provide funding for staffing and
facilities to improve the services that we offer to the homeschooling
community.
We
received some wonderful emails from you letting us know how your
organizations are using the GoodSearch money. We wanted to share a few
with you:
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The North-West Fire
Protection District used the money to buy much needed new fire helmets
and fire nozzles. |
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CATS-CAN used the
money to neuter and spay homeless cats in Seminole County , Florida .
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The Urban Flower
Project bought books for pre- kindergarten classes in the urban school
district of East Orange , NJ. |
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The Kortney Rose
Foundation put the money towards pediatric brain tumor research.
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Our goal is to help you continue to fund all of these wonderful projects,
so please spread the word. |
Science Fair/Invention Convention
May 10, 2008
Open to all homeschool students on May 10, 2008 from 10 AM - 2
PM.
Join us fo the first Arizona Science Center non-competitive Science Fair/Inventin
Convention.
GETTING STARTED:
* Select a topic of interest. There are many sites on the internet to help
find a topic.
* Submit a biref summary of the intended project: describe the question to
be studied or the invention to be developed. A form, which is due by April
1, 2008, will be provided on the Arizona Science Center website:
http://www.azsicence.org/home_school_science.php
PROJECT GUIDELINES:
* Projects may include experiments, inventins or investigations that follow
the scientific process.
* Each entry will be allowed 36" x 30" of space on a table.
* No live animals are allowed for this event.
* Your child must be able to explain the process by which the project was
done as well as the onclusions drawn from the project.
* Gentle reminder to parents: this must be your child's work.
EVENT DAY:11:30-12:30 PM:
* Set up time is between 9 and 10 AM
* Projects must remain up and staffed until 2 PM
* One adulet must remain with the child the entire time of the event
* Break time for bothe will be provided for refreshment and rest
* Snacks and lunch may be purchased from CityBakery or brought by the
participant. However, only water is allowed in the center. Lunch may be
eaten in our lunch room.
* There will be no judging of projects
For questions or comments, contact: Mary Catherine campbell at 602-716-2000
or campbellm@azscience.org
NEW WRITING CONTEST WEBSITE
Here's a
site that lists dozens of writing contests in an easy to read chart.
Most of the contests have cash prizes ranging from $100-$30,000 for the
winners.
http://homeschoolwriters.com/
JoAnn Prom Contest
Deadline: June 30, 2008
Details: http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=cat2561
Help us celebrate 25 years of service to the homeschooling community, and earn
a chance to win prizes. Tell us in 50 words or less your family’s favorite or
funniest homeschool moment ever. Email your contest entry to
celebrate25@hslda.org,
and you could win $50. Look for our next 25th anniversary contest beginning
July 1.
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