Calling All 4th Graders! Enter the Statehood Day Essay Contest

Indiana will be 195 years old this year, and all 4th graders can enter the Statehood Day Essay Contest! The essay is titled "What Indiana Means to Me". The Indiana State House Tour Office and the Indiana Center for the Book are supporting this contest.

Winners are honored at the Statehood Day Celebration on Friday, December 9, 2011. It will take place at the Indiana State House, 12-1PM.

Any Indiana fourth grade student may enter -- whether public, private or home schooled. Write an essay explaining what living in Indiana means to you. Your essay must be 100 to 400 words in length. For the contest guidelines visit www.in.gov/library/statehood/htm

Good luck! Essays must be mailed by October 28, 2011.

KCG