The Texas State-Fish Art Contest is open to all Texas students in grades 4 through 12. To enter, students must create an illustration of the Texas state fish or one of the other state fishes and write a composition on its behavior, habitat and conservation.
The Wildlife Forever's State-Fish Art Contest is open to students in grades four through 12, and each student who enters the 2008 contest will receive a free fishing lure, courtesy of Strike King Lure Company.
The first-place winner in the grades 10-12 division will win $1,000. Second place will be awarded $750, and third place $500. In the grades 4-6 and 7-9 divisions, first-place winners will receive a $100 savings bond, with $75 and $50 bonds going to second- and third-place winners respectively.
"We hope students will use these prizes to help further their education," Zoe Ann Stinchcomb, Texas coordinator of the contest, said in a press release.
The first-place winner in each grade-level division will receive airfare and lodging at the contest hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to compete in the national competition for Best of Show and Art of Conservation stamp honors.
The prizes and travel awards were made possible by a donation from the Toyota Texas Bass Classic. Deadline for entering the 2008 contest is March 31.
