Contest Theme: "Getting From Here to There: Early Maryland Maps and Travel Journals"

Contest Rules:

• Students may choose to write about the importance of maps and travel journals in the early history of Maryland, or they may write a travel journal of their own, set in pre-Revolutionary Maryland. 
• Each student may enter either one written essay or may develop web pages individually or may submit a class web project. One entry per student, one entry per class.
• Bibliographies and footnotes are required.
• Written essays must be at least 1000 words and no longer than 1500 words.
• Only one webpage entry per class.
• Webpage entries must be submitted with a paper copy with url address, if available.
• High school contestants must be students in Maryland schools in grades 9-12.
• Entries must be received no later than March 7, 2003. Send entries to:
The Maryland Colonial Society, Inc.
P.O. Box 16367
Baltimore, MD 21210
• Winners will be announced on March 25, 2003.
• Entrants must include with their entry the following:
• Name
• Home mailing address
• Age
• Grade and school
• Name of school principal
• The decisions of the judges will be final.
• All entries become the property of the Maryland Colonial Society and will not be returned to contestants.

Please call Lois Jones on (410) 889 4488 with any questions.

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