Four students will win $100 U.S. Saving Bonds and one student in each grade level will receive a certificate signed by the Governor. All student contest winners will be invited to Topeka to celebrate with the Governor on January 17, 2008.

Winning posters will be selected that best capture this year’s theme: “Inheriting a world house: what we learn from others.” Younger students in particular, after hearing about Dr. King’s life may wish to draw or paint (or use construction paper cutout, ect.) a picture/poster about what Dr. King’s lessons mean to them.

The essay contest is for students in grades 9 thru 12. Student essays should expand on the contest theme and reflect on the following quote by Dr. King, “The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.”  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., A time to Break Silence, 1967.

All entries must be received in the KAAAC (Kansas African-American Affairs Commission), 900 SW Jackson St.,  Suite 101, Topeka, KS, 66612, no later than 5:00 pm, Friday, December 21, 2007. Posters shall be no smaller than 8 1/2 x 11 inches or larger than 17 x 11 inches. (Posters will survive the journey best if mailed in tubes.)