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START A LAWS OF LIFE CONTEST

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How To Guide

Interested in starting a contest outside of Georgia? Our how-to guide will help you get started.

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*All Rotary Clubs in Georgia are asked to participate in the Georgia Laws of Life Essay Contest.

BENEFITS OF STARTING A LAWS OF LIFE CONTEST

  • Provides schools with a proven, easy-to-implement character education program that gives students an authentic purpose for writing.
  • Provides teachers with an engaging writing activity that helps them get to know their students better while improving classroom climate and relationships.
  • Inspires young people to discover for themselves the core values, principles, and ideals that will guide them wherever they go and whatever they do in life.
  • Helps students develop empathy, compassion, and confidence.
  • Honors students from all academic ability levels. (Student winners typically include “average students,” academically talented students, and students who struggle with classwork.)
  • Gives students the opportunity to write a “personal narrative,” a component of many academic writing standards.
  • Provides practice for students’ writing tests and for their college entrance essays.

STARTING A ROTARY-BASED LAWS OF LIFE ESSAY CONTEST

Single Rotary clubs or Rotary Districts can start a local or regional Laws of Life essay contest, freely using the sample teacher guidelines, judging templates, rubrics, and other contest materials herein.

Most contests will operate as follows:

  1. A Rotary Club or other Rotary entity interested in launching a contest downloads the free contest materials from our website.
  2. The club decides to either fund the contest on its own or to secure outside funding.
  3. The club works with school officials, and provides contest materials and teacher training to schools that register. (Schools should be invited to participate free of charge.)
  4. Teachers introduce the contest to their students.
  5. Students turn in their essays by the deadline.
  6. Judges from the Rotary club or district, and/or judges from other sponsors, read, and rank the essays
  7. The student prize winners are announced, rewarded, and recognized, along with their teachers
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