General Information
Junior and Senior High will be judged separately for these events.
No re-entries from a previous year are permitted. Each entry must be accompanied by an Art Card, which will be picked up and filled out at the Check-In Table. The Art Card is to be placed directly in front of the art work. A teen may enter all the art events, but multiple entries in the same event will not be allowed. All entries must be submitted by at Check-In on Friday. For more information about the scoring of each event, please note the Judging Forms for those events at the end of this Planning Packet.
Gospel Tract
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Participants will need to design and create an original tract showing a lost person how to be saved.
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Salvation theme only.
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There can be a group effort, but only one award will be given out for each place winner.
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All type, graphics, and pictures must be legible.
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Gospel Tracts cannot be larger than 4” x 6” but can be folded any way you wish.
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Entries will be judged upon the following general categories:
• Message (Salvation theme only)
• Originality
• Grammar/spelling/punctuation
• Appearance
• Color and images
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Junior and Senior High will be judged separately for these events.
Teen Brochure
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Participants will need to design and create an original brochure advertising their youth group or church only.
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Junior and Senior High will be judged separately for these events.
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Entries will be judged upon the following general categories:
• Message (introducing/information theme only)
• Originality
• Grammar/spelling/punctuation
• Appearance
• Color and images
• Layout and formatting
Website
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The website must be for the Church or Youth Group and must be a new work. (i.e. do not point us to your current church or youth group website even though you may have been the one who created it)
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Submissions can be made via a website URL if the site is hosted somewhere accessible via the internet OR via a USB drive with the fully functional website in a folder so that it can be viewed locally off of that drive.
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Websites will be viewed on a computer using a browser version that has been released in the last 3 years. Websites must be completely viewable by a web browser.
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Topics covered must be oriented to the contestant’s church, youth group, or salvation themes.
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Entries will be subjectively judged upon the following general categories:
• Overall appearance and usability.
• Message: Clarity, readability.
• Originality.
• Layout and formatting.
• Effective use of images, sounds, videos, animation, etc. to convey message.
• Functionality.
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Coding will not be judged.
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Limit one entry per contestant - team or group membership is considered as one entry per member.
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Junior and Senior High will be judged separately for these events.
Service Set
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Junior and Senior High will be judged separately for these events.
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A Service Set is a set of designs that match in theme and are used to promote a particular event at church.
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A Service Set includes the following 3 items:
• Church Bulletin Cover
• Background slide for congregational songs
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These need to be printed in color ahead of time for judging.
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These will be displayed along with the other artwork.
Promotional Video
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Junior and Senior High will be judged separately for these events.
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This category is designed to allow teens to create a short promotional video for the youth group or a specific activity.
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Any music used must be approved by the Group Lead-er prior to the event. Please have a Group Leader Mu-sic Authorization Form filled out if using music for your skit. This can be found at the end of the Planning Packet.
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Video should be 3-5 minutes in length.
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Video should be brought on a flash drive.
