Dear Teacher, Your 6th-8th grade students are invited to enter a Drawing, Essay and/or Experiment Contest at Texas A&M University through the Partnership for Environmental Education and Rural Health. Four (4) winners will be chosen for the essay contest, four (4) will be chosen for the drawing contest, and four (4) for the experiment contest. Winners of drawing and essay contests will receive $50 each. Winners of the experiment contest will receive $75 and a Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculator each for their extra work on the data collection and analysis. Parents and teachers of winners will be invited to the pre-lecture dinner and lecture. All drawings, essays, and experimental write-ups will be displayed in the foyer before the lecture on March 9, 2010. Entries are due: January 25, 2010 For more complete information and websites which will help students in these contests, please see the attached file or access: http://peer.tamu.edu/Drawing_contest.shtml Thanks, Vince Hardy Research Associate Dept of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences Texas A&M University Ph: (979) 845-8339 Fax: (979) 847-8981