Billboard Contest Rules & Prizes
Here's everything you need to know about the Billboard contest. Want a printable version? Click here.
HOW TO ENTER
Each student must complete all necessary information and agree to the Terms of Agreement. Only designs submitted online will be accepted. Entries must be submitted no later than Friday, January 6, 2012.
AWARDS
The Act-Out for Health Billboard contest is open to all 4th through 12th grade students in the state of Florida. The Act-Out for Health Billboard contest winners will be selected by a panel of Florida KidCare judges. District winners will be selected from three regions across the state. (Click here for details about which district/region your school is in). Judges will select one winner from each of the three regions to advance to the Statewide Grand Prize finals. A Statewide Grand Prize will then be awarded to one of the three regional winners. The Statewide Grand Prize winner cannot claim both a regional prize and the statewide prize.
Please note to your students that the award amounts have changed this year.
District Winners: $50 for each winner.
Regional Winners: $400 to the winning student and $150 to the school.
Statewide Grand Prize Winner: $500 for elementary and $750 for middle/high school winners; and $250 for the winning elementary school and $300 for the winning middle/high school.
If your student’s entry is selected as a winner, the Florida Healthy Kids Corporation may request their social security number for accounting purposes so they can receive their prize. All winners will be invited to attend an awards ceremony in Orlando in early February. Winners unable to attend this event will be mailed their prizes. Winning entries will be posted on the Act-Out for Health Contest website following the statewide awards ceremony.
Funds may be available to assist with travel costs.
THEMES
Your students have probably heard their parents talking about it or maybe even seen it on the news. These days, people are talking about health care. But do they know about the importance of having health insurance? Their thoughts and answers to this question is what we need for this competition.
For this year’s contest, we’ve come up with three themes. Students should select one theme to develop their creative billboard designs. Here are their choices:
Theme 1: Stay healthy with Florida KidCare
Children enrolled in Florida KidCare receive comprehensive health coverage including doctor visits, shots, surgery, prescriptions, vision and hearing screenings, mental health care, dental check-ups and hospital stays.
With these quality health care services offered through the Florida KidCare program, kids like you can stay healthy, and stay active in the classroom and on the field (or stage, or studio, or…well you get the picture).
Theme 2: This is what healthy looks like.
When you feel good, you look good. Maintaining healthy habits like eating right, exercising and getting regular checkups can help keep our bodies strong, teeth clean, and mind fabulous. Especially when you have health insurance like Florida KidCare.
The trick to looking and feeling your best is about making the right choices over the wrong ones. It’s as simple as choosing carrots over candy, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, or having great health insurance instead of hoping for the best.
Theme 3: Healthy is more fun than you think.
Being healthy doesn’t have to be a chore or a bore.
It’s easy to make eating healthy and exercising fun. You and your friends can get together to create delicious snacks. You can exercise during one of your favorite TV shows. Or you can plan a day of fun activities for you and your favorite folks.
However you choose to make it fun, the key to it all is having health insurance so you can get regular checkups, prescriptions and more.
Once they’ve picked a theme, they should create their own tagline and start designing their billboard using our online tool. Remember, this is a solo project and only entries submitted by individual students will be accepted. Also, remind them to follow the contest rules and guidelines outlined below so their entry won’t get disqualified.
RULES
We have new rules. Please have your students read this section carefully to make sure their entries will qualify.
Grade requirement. We’re looking for a billboard made for students, by students. Only fourth through 12th graders may enter the contest.
Group size. Only individuals may enter the billboard design portion of our contest. The entire design is to be completed by individual students online. There is also no limit on the number of entries each student can submit.
Photos. Please remind students that only use the photos provided on the contest website image library or high resolution photos (300 dpi) taken with their own camera. If a student uses their own photos and their contest entry is selected as a winner, they may be asked to provide signed waiver forms for any individuals in the photo. No inappropriate photos allowed. Period. The judges are going to put any entries with inappropriate photos or images straight in the trash.
Billboard must-have information. All billboard designs must include the Florida KidCare logo, phone number and web address. Encourage students to proofread their entry as this information must be spelled and capitalized correctly or the submission will be rejected.
Online only. The billboard design contest may only be completed online. Go to our website at www.actout4health.org and have students follow the directions to enter their design.
No favorites. Sorry, but the children of Florida Healthy Kids Corporation employees or board members are not eligible to participate.
