[SCA-BMDL] Ice Dragon Essay Contest

[Saskia van Ouwater]

Greetings from the Ministry of Arts and Sciences!

Here's a reminder: Ice Dragon is rapidly approaching!  Have you considered
entering something?  The event webiste is here for your perusal:
http://www.wnysca.org/phpwcms/index.php?id=3D55,0,0,1,0,0

For those not on the AE list, I thought I'd forward this email about Ice
Dragon.  In addition to the annual A&S competition, they are also having an
essay competition on the theme of newcomer to seasoned veteran which sounds
interesting.

Cheers-
Saskia van Ouwater
Minister, A&S
BMDL



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: FRANK BENZ <ef-fex.b at worldnet.att.net>
Date: Feb 24, 2007 1:27 PM
Subject: [SCA-AE] Ice Dragon Essay Contest.doc
To: AEthelmearc E-list <discussion at aethelmearc.org>

Greetings All,
Please excuse the bandwidth, but I wanted to make sure this got to as many
people as possible before the event. Sorry if you get this more than once.

Biotta
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Ice Dragon Essay Contest



The pirates of Otter's Cove are proud to sponsor an essay contest at Ice
Dragon 2007!  This contest is geared to helping newcomers who may be having
a hard time getting started in the SCA.  So what we what are people who have
been in the society for at least five years to write about how it was to
evolve from a newcomer to the seasoned person they are now.  There will be
prizes for the top three voted by the populace, one of which is cash.


Here are the rules:


1)      Entrants must be adults having been in society for five years or
more.

2)      Entrants must have been new comers to the society and not children
of established society members.

3)      Essay must consist of one hundred words or more describing your
first learning years on how you felt and what it did to mold you into the
person you are today.

4)      Essay should be submitted unsigned and cannot include proper names
or locations to keep it anonymous.

5)      Essays will be displayed in the main hall with an entry number for
people to vote by.

6)      Essays will be voted on by the general populace and judging will
take place before the pirate auction.

7)      Names of the essay authors will be revealed after the votes are
counted.

8)      Suggested essay titles are:

A)    "Boy was I green, but look at me now"



B)     "From newcomer to seasoned scadian, my first five years"



      9)  Sorry no proxy submissions, entrants must be present to receive
their prize.



Material in the essays will become the property of the Seneschal and may be
used to form a new pamphlet to better help newcomers ease into society and
help them know we have all been in their shoes before.  Whether you enter or
not, reading them will help the rest of us remember what it was like too.
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