How To Enter The 2008 Essay Contest

Education


There Are Two Ways To Enter

You have the option to submit your registration and your essay via email, and that is what the Alliance for Science encourages you to do if at all possible. If you are unable to enter via email, you may enter via U.S. mail. It is a lot more work for our volunteers to process mailed-in essays, so please be considerate and submit vie email if possible. Your email address will not be given to anyone and will only be used for purposes directly related to this contest (such as informing you that you are a winner!).
How to Enter by Email

  1. Write a great essay!
  2. Download this email registration form.
  3. Fill out and save the registration form. If you encouter difficulty with this, it is very likely that you have an old version of Adobe Reader. Download the latest Adobe Reader program for best results.
  4. Double-check your registration form -- did you answer all the required items, including the word count?
  5. Check your essay -- if you included your name, address, or grade and school information in the essay itself, please delete that information. Don't worry -- we are very good at keeping registration forms and essays matched together.
  6. Save your essay in one of these formats: Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), plain text (.txt), rich text (.rtf), or Adobe portable document format (.pdf).
  7. Send an email to afsessay@gmail.com, with BOTH the REGISTRATION FORM and YOUR ESSAY as attachments. Make sure you send your email before midnight, February 29th, 2008.
How to Enter by U.S. Mail
Reminder: email submission is preferred -- see explanation at top.

  1. Write a great essay!
  2. Download this print registration form and print it.
  3. Carefully fill out the registration form - please write legibly!.
  4. Double-check your registration form -- did you answer all the required items, including the word count?
  5. Check your essay -- if you included your name, address, or grade and school information in the essay itself, please delete that information. Don't worry -- we are very good at keeping registration forms and essays matched together.
  6. Print your essay on plain white paper and print on one side of the paper only.
  7. Mail BOTH the REGISTRATION FORM and YOUR ESSAY to:
    The Alliance for Science
    P.O. Box 5122
    Arlington VA 22205-9998
    Be sure you mail your submission early enough to be sure it arrives before the Feb. 29th, 2008 deadline. If you are mailing your essay on Feb 22nd or later (or even earlier if mailing from outside the continental U.S.), we recommend that you go to your local U.S. Post Office and ask for a dated postmark. If your essay arrives after the deadline, but the dated postmark shows that it was mailed on or before February 29th, 2008, we will accept it.