How to Enter

General Information

To participate in the Schools Reconciliation Challenge, students must currently be enrolled in a primary or secondary school in NSW. If students are eligible to enter, they need to follow these simple steps:
1. Remember entry is free. Make sure you tell your friends to enter.
2. Decide whether to enter as an individual, as a group or as a class.
3. Ensure the entry is based on the competition theme - Reconciliation: The Road Ahead
4. Read the Terms and Conditions of entry.
5. Prepare artwork, song lyrics or poem carefully.

Technical Requirements and Format of Entries

Before submitting entries, make sure it meets the following technical requirements.
• No names are to be included anywhere on the artwork/poem/lyrics. Entries must show no name, address or identifying marks other than the title. Personal details are recorded separately on the entry form.
• The filename of digital entries must be the title of the artwork/song/poem.
• Digital entries must be either a .doc, .docx, .rtf,.wps or .pdf, .txt , .jpg, .bmp, .gif file.

Artwork entries - Primary School Students (Grades 3-6)
• Digital entries (preferred): email either a digital photograph or scanned version of the artwork. Preferred file types are: .jpg, .gif, .bmp.
o File should be at low/medium resolution & should not be larger than 800 Kb.
o The original artwork of the winning entries must be available and submitted to the NSWRC Office within seven days of notice (the NSWRC will provide assistance with these arrangements).
• Entries should be on paper or canvas: Artwork/design should be no larger than A4 paper size. Artwork is not to be framed or mounted behind glass.

Song Writing and Poetry - High School Students (Grades 7-12)
• Entries should be no more than 500 words (no minimum).
• Do not submit music or recordings of a song – please submit lyrics only. (the music for song lyrics do not need to be composed.)
• Digital entries (preferred): Typed in 12 point Times New Roman font. Preferably in a Word Perfect, Microsoft Word, Works, or PDF document.
• Entries on paper: Typed or clearly handwritten single-sided pages. Pages to be numbered and securely fastened. Each entry must be on a new sheet.

Sending in your entry

Complete the Entry Form and submit it with the artwork, song lyrics or poem to NSW Reconciliation Council (NSWRC) by either of the following two methods:
• Email:      nswrc@nswreconciliation.org.au

• Registered mail:
                                Schools Reconciliation Challenge 2010
                                 c/o Project Manager
                                 NSW Reconciliation Council
                                 11-13 Mansfield St,
                                 Glebe, Sydney, NSW 2037