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Excerpted from the website:

Contest Purpose:
* To encourage children to think mathematically and keep up their math skills during the summer.
* To promote math as part of many family activities.
* To build a free list of great ideas for kids, families, and teachers accessible on the internet for continued use after the contest ends.

What do you enter?
It's simple! You share your Crazy 4 Math ideas! Describe how you use math in the activities you do. This can be any idea that promotes math in something you love to do — a sport, game, hobby, or activity. Send in a brief description and title of the activity. Don't forget to let us know the math concept you and your family have learned (i.e. algebra, the principle of infinity, measurement, probability, estimation). You can also include a drawing or diagram to represent your idea.


Click on this link to read more.

Subway changed their contest rules! So for all those who were concerned that homeschoolers were being excluded, lets show them that we will participate now that they listened!

http://www.subwayfreshbuzz.com/kid…

eCYBERMISSION

eCYBERMISSION is a web-based science, math and technology competition
for 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grade teams. Your team will propose a
solution to a real problem in your community and compete for regional
and national awards. eCYBERMISSION challenges you to explore how
science, math and technology work in your world. Registration for new
season starts August 1.

I went to the Subway website to write a complaint and they currently have this up:


Every Sandwich Tells a Story Contest

We at SUBWAY restaurants place a high value on education, regardless of the setting, and have initiated a number of programs and promotions aimed at educating our youth in the areas of health and fitness.
We sincerely apologize to anyone who feels excluded by our current essay contest. Our intention was to provide an opportunity for traditional schools, many of which we know have trouble affording athletic equipment, to win equipment. Parents who home school their children make a tremendous commitment which we greatly respect, and can provide a terrific education. Our intent was certainly not to exclude home schooled children from the opportunity to win prizes and benefit from better access to fitness equipment.
To address the inadvertent limitation of our current contest and provide an opportunity for even more kids to improve their fitness, we will soon create an additional contest in which home schooled students will be encouraged to participate. When the kids win, everyone wins!


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I complained anyway stating in a long-winded statement that first, who were they to determine what a home schooling family can or can not use for equipment ... and second, give us the opportunity to donate it to a community/school/or other playground that we use or know of that may be in need.

There's no accounting for lack of common sense. Even at the corporate level.

http://www.subwayfreshbuzz.com/kid…

Subway is hosting a contest that excludes homeschoolers. They state that "No home school will be accepted" in there writing contest. Nice. We register as a private school, which is one of 2 options for us in Louisiana. We *could* enter as a private school. However, when asked what school Silas goes to, we never say what school he goes to. We always say we homeschool.

I understand that the grand prize is to win $5,000 of play equipment, which one home doesn't need. BUT I know plenty of people that would suggest the play equipment go to a park in need of new swings and slides.

Oh, and the best part? Scholastic is in on this as well! A MAJOR children's book company doesn't want a big population of children participating.

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Just a heads up, the Book It registration for the 2008-2009 school year is now open! Enroll online now to receive your materials by mid Sept of 2008.