Scholastic and Major League Baseball’s 15th Anniversary of Breaking Barriers in sports and life. Character education and essay contests for grades 4-8. Teachers may upload all class entries on-line, or students may snail mail entries.
Students should create an essay about a barrier they have faced and explain how the barrier was faced with one or more of Jackie Robinson’s nine values:
- Courage
- Determination
- Teamwork
- Persistance
- Integrity
- Citizenship
- Justice
- Commitment
- Excellence
Grand Prize:
- 3-day/2-night trip for 2 to the 2014 All-Star Game
- laptop computer (one for student and one for teacher)
- class visit from Sharon Robinson, daughter of Jackie Robinson
- one class set (30 copies) of books by Sharon Robinson
- class set (30 T-shirts) of Breaking Barriers T-shirts
FOUR First Place Winners:
- laptop computer (one for student and one for teacher)
- class visit from Sharon Robinson, daughter of Jackie Robinson
- one class set (30 copies) of books by Sharon Robinson
- class set (30 T-shirts) of Breaking Barriers T-shirts
FOUR Second Place Winners: (Yep, exactly the same as first place…why don’t they just award EIGHT first places?)
- laptop computer (one for student and one for teacher)
- class visit from Sharon Robinson, daughter of Jackie Robinson
- one class set (30 copies) of books by Sharon Robinson
- class set (30 T-shirts) of Breaking Barriers T-shirts
Submission deadline March 14, 2014
Check out a separate contest for 9th graders. All is the same as above except only for 9th graders.
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