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all competition #competitions - Children who submit an essay about life lessons from an older person they know could win a Lenovo computer for themselves, and a $25,000 educational software prize pacakge for their school.

What can you learn
when you listen to a life? Children and teens can become more aware of their own dreams and goals – and what's needed to achieve them – when they hear the real-life stories of older adults.

The Listen to a Life Contest is an opportunity to develop important skills in areas that include interviewing, listening, writing, and technology. Young people have an opportunity for their work to be read and recognized by a wider audience. And the BIGGEST benefit of this contest has always been the important intergenerational connections it encourages, builds, and strengthens. It helps forge closer connections between young and old as they get to know each other in new, often unexpected ways.

To enter the Listen to a Life Contest, a young person
8-18 years old interviews an older person over 50 years (cannot be a parent; they can be a grandparent, older friend, mentor, neighbor, nursing home resident, etc.) about their hopes and goals through their life, how they achieved goals and overcame obstacles, or how dreams may have changed along the way. What life advice can the older person share? The young person then writes a 300-word essay (maximum) based on the interview.

Reading through the winning entries from previous years is a good start to crafting an appropriate essay. As you'll see, the judging committee isn't looking for a laundry list of dates and life facts. Rather, they're looking for an evocative, creative story that captures the essence of a person's life, or a critical moment or experience.

To help with your entry, you can also read through the Life Interview Tips and sample Life Interview Questions (you don't have to use the questions; they're designed to give you ideas and inspiration).

To set the stage for an interview, you can read Dream together. Dream is about hopes and dreams across a lifetime. With a multilayered story, remarkable artwork from 15 of the top illustrators in the world, and thought-provoking quotations, this book will spark a lot of ideas and conversation.

The Listen to a Life Contest ends March 30, 2012. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. One entry per team (i.e. young person and grandparent or grandfriend). Entries must be 300 words or less, be a
true story about an older person's life, and will be judged by a committee based on the following criteria:
1/3 appropriateness to theme; 1/3 writing quality;
1/3 content originality.

Make sure you read the complete contest rules.
Then, submit your entry using the online entry form no later than 11:59 pm ET on Friday, March 30, 2012. Please DO NOT submit entries in multiple ways (e.g. via the online entry form and also by mail or fax).

Winners will be notified and announced on this website by May 10, 2012.

win a Lenovo computer website: http://www.tcpnow.com/contests/ltal.html