Youth Opportunities - Sunday April 24th, 2011

Sunday April 24, 2011

[UPDATE: It may be useful to browse these old listings as many programs are annual, but for more current contests and competitions, head to the Youth Opportunities page.]

Every weekend I post about current youth opportunities that are open to submissions from Ontario residents, which includes many contests and competitions open to youth across Canada and the US. Please note I'm not attesting to the legitimacy or quality of anything listed here - read the fine print carefully and make your own judgement call, especially if a submission fee or creative rights are involved!

My apologies for the delay with the youth opportunities round-up this weekend, but as it turns out it wasn't even worth the wait - I don't have anything new to add!

That said, there are a lot of end-of-April deadlines listed below, so the list of previously mentioned youth opportunities might be worth a quick review...


Previously Highlighted Youth Opportunities

APRIL DEADLINES

• The T24 Project (GTA residents, ages 18-28 : 04/27/11)
• Mixed Company Theatre's Rising Star Award (Canadians 25 and under: 04/29/11)
• The Great EcoKids Challenge (Grades K-8: 04/29/11)
• Playwright's Guild of Canada - National Post-Secondary Play Writing Competition (Post-Secondary students: 04/29/11)
• RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwrights’ Competition (All ages: 04/29/11)
• 2011 Toronto Youth Shorts Film Festival (Ages 18-28: 04/29/11)
• Refugees and Human Rights Child and Youth Poetry Contest (GTA students grades 4-12: 04/29/11)
• Because I Am a Girl: smartgirl Contest (Ages 16+: 04/30/11)
• The Spirit of Will Munro Award (Ages 26 and under: 04/30/11)
• Canada's Next Green Journalist (Ages 12-18: 04/30/11)
• Act NOW! International Performance Writing Festival (Ages 14-16: 04/30/11)
• The Hunger Mountain Prize for Young Writers (High school students: 04/30/11)

MAY DEADLINES

• Bridgestone Safety Scholars Video Contest(Full-time students aged 16-21 with a driver's license, US & Canada excluding Quebec: 05/13/11)
• AMAPCEO Secondary School Student Essay Contest(Full-time Ontario secondary school students: 05/17/11)
• Robert Bateman Get to Know Contest (Canadians 19 and under: 05/23/11)
• The James Bartleman Aboriginal Youth Creative Writing Award (Ages 18 and under: 05/31/11)
• "Science Can Fix That" Video Contest (Ages 6-18 or 19 and full-time high school student: 05/03/11)

JUNE DEADLINE

• The Fraser Institute Essay Contest (High school & post-secondary students: 06/01/11)
• Historica-Dominion Institute's Great Questions of Canada Essay Competition (Students ages 17-25: 06/30/11)
• BMO Team of the Week Contest (Adult rep of Cdn youth soccer teams, ages 7-12: 06/30/11)

JULY DEADLINE

• Business Wire's 50th Anniversary College Video Contest (US & Cdn post-secondary students: 07/15/11)

SEPTEMBER DEADLINE

• The 90-Second Newberry Film Festival (09/15/11)

ONGOING

• Toronto Chapter of The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences (15th of each month) or find other chapters of the Awesome Foundation