Writing, filming and book signing opportunities

Salut les élèves!
If you love creative writing, here's an opportunity for you: The organization "Our Hidden Heroes" is putting on a competition, and the winner receives an Acer laptop. The topic choices are:

*write a story of a Hidden Hero (positive role model) you know in your family, community or school, or
*write a story of a time you were a Hidden Hero yourself.

Maximum word count = 300 words. The winner will be chosen at random, but some of the best writing will also be posted to the website. Stories are due April 30, 2011 at noon, and have to be sent from my school email address to qualify. Please email your stories to me, if you want to participate in this competition. http://www.ourhiddenheroes.org/web_documents/project_rules_and_info_2010-2011.pdf

For the film makers at our school: you can participate in a national anti-racism video competition put on by the Canadian Government.

Create a video 45 to 60 seconds long about your thoughts on eliminating racism. You can work in a team of up to five people. Your video can feature as many people as you want — include your whole school or members of your community if they have something to say about stopping racism.
Ten videos will be chosen as winners and will be broadcast on national television, reaching millions of Canadians.

Videos (accompanied by one entry form signed by a parent for each team member) are due by Friday, December 31, 2010. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/multiculturalism/march21/contest.asp

Finally, for fans of Kenneth Oppel: there will be a book signing at Munro's books this Saturday, October 16th, at 3pm. Oppel is the author of the Silverwing series, and the Airborn trilogy. He also has a new book coming out called Half Brother, and it's about a Victoria family that adopts a chimpanzee as part of an experiment.

Remember: you need to hand in your late assignments by Thursday!
A demain,
Mme O