This contest gives you the chance to travel through time and learn about the past, while discovering a direction for your own future.
Students must interview one older person and write a 300-word story to send a message around the world and into the future. All winning essays become part of the Legacy Project's online Legacy Library.
Each entry must be submitted by an intergenerational team consisting of one young person, 8-18 years old, and one older person, at least 50 years old, from the United States or Canada.
The essay must be an original, true story about a real event or experience in the older entrant's life and be based on an actual interview the young person completes in person, over the phone, or via the Internet with a living older adult.
One Grand Prize Timeless Award Winner Receives a Lenovo ThinkCentre computer, a keepsake timepiece from Expressions of Time, and an autographed copy of Dream, an award-winning bestseller about time, legacies and dreams across a lifetime.
10 Legacy Award Winners receive a keepsake timepiece from Expressions of Time and an autographed copy of Dream, an award-winning bestseller about time, legacies and dreams across a lifetime.
Entries must be received by Friday, March 22, 2013.
For more information, official rules and entry forms, click here.