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Who: One student teacher team will be sponsored
to attend the Yosemite Winter Literary Conference
When:
February 25 - March 1, 2001
Where:
Yosemite National Park, California
What: The Yosemite Association is proud to host its
First Annual Yosemite Winter Literary Conference. Through
this conference, participants will be given the opportunity
to explore the literary landscape of California, the Sierra
Nevada, and the American West with a distinguished group
of writers, artists, photographers, and scientists. The
conference takes place in the landmark Ahwahnee Hotel in
Yosemite Valley.
Presenters
include:
The
winning student and teacher team will take part in workshops,
panel discussions, and informal sessions put on by these
and other premier environmental writers. A typical day consists
of a morning workshop, talk, or reading, and an afternoon
panel discussion or writing class in the out-of-doors. In
addition, the winning team will document their experience
with words and images on the WildLink website while attending
the conference.
The
winning team receives the following from the Central and
Southern Sierra Wilderness Education Project and the Yosemite
Association:
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two scholarships to attend the Yosemite Winter Literary
Conference($525.00 per person);
- lodging
in heated tent cabins ($303.00 per person);
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a food stipend ($45.00 per person per day);
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a matching grant for a substitute teacher.
Contest
Guidelines: Interested students and teachers are encouraged
to work together to submit a creative piece consisting of
no more than 250 words expressing the relevance of the Sierra
Nevada to the people of California. The piece need not consist
of purely written material. A panel of judges from the Yosemite
community will choose the winning entry on the basis of
creativity, enthusiasm, teamwork and quality of the submission.
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Deadline for receipt of all entries: January 31, 2001; Entries
must be submitted online via the submission
form on the "news" section or via e-mail to perrine_punwani@nps.gov.
All submissions will have the potential of being posted
on the WildLink
website.
Other
presenters include Jack
Hicks, Brenda
Hillman, Pam
Houston, James
D. Houston, Malcolm
Margolin, Louis
Owens, Jeffrey
Mount, Kim
Stanley Robinson, Brooke
Williams, and Al
Young.
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