PIONEER TIMES INNOVATION AWARDS

***Please note: Continuation of the contest annually is dependent on availability of funds.

Each 4th grade class who tours the Village each calendar year is eligible to enter. The entries need to be turned in by January 31 each year in order to be judged. Two student entries from each class will be chosen to receive first place and first runner up prizes ($100 and $50 U.S. Savings Bonds, respectively). All entries are eligible to be published in the Log Cabin Village blog.

A ceremony will be held each spring to present the winning entries from the previous year with their bonds. From all of these entries, a Grand Prize winner will be chosen to receive an additional savings bond!

Pioneer Times Innovation Awards Entry Form

Contest Topics and Rules

• To enter, students may choose from ONE of the following:
  
  • Students may design their own dream log cabin. This cabin can be as creative and contain as many amenities (historical, not modern – No GameCubes or Satellite dishes!) as the student desires. As the students imagine their dream cabin, have them consider what might make their lives easier or be useful in their small home based on their experience in Log Cabin Village.
  • Based on what they learned about frontier living during their visit to Log Cabin Village, students may create an invention that would have made life easier in the 19th century. This invention does not need to be completely grounded in reality; the more fanciful the better (i.e. an automatic chalk-picker-upper for the school)! While it is okay for students’ inventions to be something that actually exists, the design MAY NOT exactly duplicate modern devices (i.e. drawing a Maytag washing machine). The design needs to be original!
    
    
• Entries MUST be submitted on the provided forms. The students should draw their entry (cabin or invention) on one page of the form and creatively describe their entry in essay format on the other form. Students may use any media (i.e. paint, markers, chalk, etc.) to complete their drawings.
  
  
• The entry form cover sheet provided MUST be used for each class.
  
  
• Although each entry should be inspired by the student’s visit to Log Cabin Village, creativity and imagination are strongly encouraged and recommended!
  
  
• The minimum number of entries for each class is 8 students.
  
  
• It is recommended that teachers submit ALL entries for judges’ consideration rather than submitting a select few.

For more information, please contact Log Cabin Village at 817-392-6768 or email the director .