The Greater Pinnacle Peak Association (GPPA) and
A
Peek at the Peak (The Peak) magazine organize contests and makes
awards to in support of their mission and to foster communication and community
service. We use The Peak, e-Peak Newsletter, and this Web site to
recognize winners by publishing their entries. If you'd enjoy having
your work published, we invite you to enter one of the contests below.
Every spring, GPPA awards a
college grant to a graduating Cactus Shadows senior. The amount of the
2009 grant is $1,000. Graduating seniors who have been accepted for
college in the coming fall are invited to submit applications for the
award. The applications are evaluated by a GPPA committee based on the
past performance and future potential , with particular focus on
activities demonstrating a commitment to desert preservation, wildlife
conservation, and the protection of quality of life in our community.
Applicants are also asked to submit referral letters from two teachers
and a paper describing what the work they have done to help the
environment we live in.
This summer the
Greater Pinnacle Peak Association and A Peek at the Peak (The Peak)
magazine are sponsoring their annual Summer Fun Photography Contest for
the 6th consecutive year. This year prizes will be awarded in for two
divisions, Adult and Youth (18 and under). What do you think is worth
preserving in our community? Photograph it and send us the photograph.
Entries must be original photographs taken by the entrant in Scottsdale,
Carefree, Cave Creek, Rio/Tonto Verde, or north Phoenix.
Contest prizes
and rules for the contest are posted here.The deadline for submitting entries is July 31, 2009. See information
about previous contests below. Click here to see advertisement and entry form from
the July/August 2009 issue of The Peak
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This summer the Greater
Pinnacle Peak Association (GPPA) and A Peek at the Peak (The
Peak) are sponsoring their 6th Annual Summer Fun Write Stuff contest
with adult and youth (age 18 and under) divisions. Contestants are
required to write an original 500- to 1500-word fiction or non-fiction
story, essay, poem about what's worth preserving in our Sonoran Desert
community. Is it a critter's habitat? Desert flora, fauna, and vistas?
Urban sprawl? Local history? The entry can be humorous, serious, or
both. Be creative!
Winning entries will be
published in The Peak, recognized in e-Peak Newsletter,
and published on GPPA's Web site. Entries will be judged by The
Peak’s editorial staff and industry professionals.
This contest, which supports
the Cactus Shadows Arizona History Project, is designed to
increase advertiser response. The project's logo is hidden in an
advertisement in The Peak magazine and a second a second
in the listing of The Peak’s advertisers on this Web site. Readers
of The Peak and visitors to this Web site are asked to find
either logo. Entrants are entered into a drawing. The winner is awarded
two bound volumes of Since You Asked, Arizona Veterans
Share Their Stories, valued at $50. For information and rules, see
Win AHP Books!
This contest is designed to
increase advertiser response. The Greater Pinnacle Peak Association’s
logo is a quail and we place one quail in an advertisement somewhere in
A Peek at the Peak (The Peak) magazine and a second
in the listing of The Peak’s advertisers on our Web site. Readers
of The Peak and visitors to this Web site are asked to find
either of the
two quails and identify the “host” advertisement. A new contest begins
with the publication of The Peak. To winner receives $50.
Write Stuff Contests
From time to
time, the Greater Pinnacle Peak Association and A Peek at the Peak
magazine sponsor writing contests. Past contests have required entrants
to submit cowboy poems, tall stories and articles about desert
preservation. Winners receive valuable prizes and their submissions are
published in The Peak and on this Web site. See information about
previous contests below.
2009 Preservation Award for Students
Students who live and/or attend school a public school, charger
school, or are home-schooled in A Peek at the Peak (The Peak)
magazine’s distribution area (north Scottsdale, Carefree, Cave Creek,
northeast Phoenix, and the Verdes) can enter this annual
photo-journalism contest. Awards will be made to students who win GPPA’s
Preserving Our Desert Writing Contest. Entrants are being asked to write
about one of the following three themes: Preserving the desert: 1. Means
native plants and wildlife will have a place to live, 2. Is part of the
solution of saving the environment,3. Means visitors and residents can
enjoy hiking and other outdoor activities.
