Written by Emily Sobieraj |

The PTA Reflections Program is ready to roll with this year’s theme,”Believe, Dream, Inspire.” Anything from the following categories can be entered: Music Composition, Film Production, Literature, Visual Arts, Photography, and Dance Choreography.  Enter your work under the high school division, ages 14 or older (Adults are not allowed to help the competitors.) Students can enter under one or more category, but only one entry is allowed for each category. All artwork must contain a title and have an artistic statement. Each entry must be the original work of one student only although other individuals can appear in or perform in a student’s work. Use of copyrighted material is prohibited except for recorded music for dance or film entries. Plagiarized entries will be disqualified and returned to the owner. Students entering the PTA Reflections Program at local levels should follow submission rules provided by Local PTA’s. All forms can be found at the website www.ctpta.org or contact Connecticut PTSA directly.The file formats are:

Video– AVI, MOV, MPG, MPEG, WMV, FLV

Audio- MP3, MP4, WMa, WAV, ACC, FLAC

Images– JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP

Document- DOC, DOCX, PDF, PPT, PPTX, HTML, XHTML, TXT, RTF, ODT

Judging is based on

• Interpretation of the National PTA Reflections theme- “Beleive, Dream, Inspire”
• Artistic Merit
• Creative Merit
• Technical Merit

All judging decisions are final and no parents or children can dispute these decisions. All entries should include coding. Highlighted areas are customized per student entry. For more information about National PTA’s Reflections Program, contact Connecticut PTSA , call 203-281-6617, or visit [email protected]. All submissinons due Friday, November 22, 2013.

“The  Clinton PTA started the program because we knew we had a lot of talented students in our district.  We see this as an opportunity for students to ‘show what they’ve got’.”- Mrs. Phelps explained, “The only category that Morgan students participated in last year was Literature – First place, Eli Phelps (a junior last year); Second and third place went to Chad Paradis and Katelyn Long, respectively (both were seniors last year).  In addition, Eli Phelps took third place at the state level, which is terrific considering last year was the first year Morgan participated in the contest.”

If you know you have talent and would like to enter, then sign up and start working on your piece! Friday, November 22nd will be here soon!