Essay Contest

Our Marion Craig Memorial High School Essay Contest is taking off with a bang! The Board is requesting members help in choosing the essay contest topic. This year's contest will have participants choose from five different topics. The contest will include all high school juniors and seniors in the Salt Lake Valley, approximately 26 schools.

This year we are including an award to the teacher whose student wins first place, for classroom supplies. The purpose of going to all the high schools in the Salt Lake Valley is to help in enhancing awareness of the humanist philosophy in the school system. Humanist philosophy is rich in rational, creative thinking, and the wisdom that human beings are the only ones that really can solve their own problems rather than relying on divine beings. The contest also is to help these young developing minds to never stop questioning and to never stop seeking a variety of viewpoints in solving any issues in life that they must face, for a closed mind is a lost mind.

The contest will start November 5, 2004 and run to February 28, 2005. The winner will be announced in our April General meeting.

We need your input to select the topics for this year's contest. Please rank your top five choices in this form.