Cleveland Fed Holds Writing Contest for Students
CLEVELAND -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is holding a writing contest for high school students in the region it serves and offering a top prize of $500.
The bank is holding the contest to coincide with the centennial of the Federal Reserve System, the nation’s central bank, signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson in December 1913, says spokeswoman June Gates.
The contest, open to juniors and seniors in high schools in Ohio, western Pennsylvania, the West Virginia panhandle and eastern Kentucky, asks them to choose and write about “the most significant advancement in the last century and explain its impact on the economy.”
Theme of the Cleveland Fed’s 2014 creative writing contest is “100 Years of Change, Once Upon a Time Before TV.” Students can submit an essay, poem or short story. In the entries, each writer should consider the costs and benefits of the advance he chooses and whether it carried unintended consequences.
Deadline for submissions is Feb. 28, 2014, and the top prize is a $500 gift card. Other prize will be awarded.
Submission requirements, an entry form and complete list of prizes can be found at this website.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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