Amazing Kids!, Perry’s Previews Launch Perrific Oscar Picks! Contest
Press Release from Amazing Kids!
February 2, 2011; Seattle, WA - Amazing Kids! (www.amazing-kids.org) and Perry’s Previews (www.perryspreviews.com) announced that entries are now being accepted for their first-ever “Amazing Kids!’ Perrific Oscar Picks!” Contest. Amazing Kids! and Perry’s Previews are challenging kids and teens worldwide, ages 6-17, to predict the Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature of 2010 for the upcoming 83rd Academy Awards and make their voice heard. Contestants are asked to name which of the top 3 Oscar-nominated feature animation films, How to Train Your Dragon (DreamWorks Animation), Toy Story 3 (Disney/Pixar), and The Illusionist (Sony Pictures Classics), they predict will win at the Academy Awards ceremony on February 27, 2011. Contestants have the option of submitting the reason for their pick in 50 words or less on the contest site.
Prizes will include DVDs of the best animated feature film of 2010 Oscar nominees and winner, and will be awarded to contest winners in a random drawing from those entries which correctly predict the Oscar winner. In addition, one grand prize winning “Best Essay” entry will receive copies of all three DVDs. The winners’ names will be featured on the Amazing Kids! website, amazing-kids.org with a following of nearly 1 million yearly visitors, and in the Amazing Kids! Magazine (mag.amazing-kids.org), as well as on Perry’s Previews (Perryspreviews.com). The winners will also be announced in the contest’s media sponsor, Kid Scoop, a syndicated weekly kids’ educational activities column appearing in over 300 newspapers across the U.S. (kidscoop.com/).
DreamWorks Animation is the first “Contest Sponsor,” having shipped 20 DVDs of “How to Train Your Dragon” as part of the prizes for the contest winners. Entries have been received from the United States, The United Kingdom, and Canada. More entries from other countries are expected in the coming weeks.
The “Amazing Kids!’ Perrific Oscar Picks!”contest is one of several movie-related contests planned by Amazing Kids! and Perry’s Previews in the coming months, including an upcoming kids’ movie review writing contest for kids which will be judged by Perry Chen, Amazing Kids! resident film critic, along with some of today’s most prominent adult critics.
The deadline to submit entries for the “Amazing Kids!’ Perrific Oscar® Picks!” is February 26, 2011, one day prior to the 83rd Academy Awards. More information and contest rules can be found on the main “Contests” page on the Amazing Kids! http://amazing-kids.org/contests.
Contestants (and/or their parents) are encouraged to become Facebook fans of Perry’s Previews and Amazing Kids to get timely updates about the contest:
http://www.facebook.com/perryspreviewsfan
http://www.facebook.com/amazingkids
For more information on this contest, listen to Canadian Radio Talk Show “Cutting Room Floor” hosted by Casey Ryan, featuring Perry Chen, his mom and co-producer of his animation film Dr. Zhu Shen, Amazing Kids President Alyse Rome, and Karina Bessoudo, Vice President of Marketing, Toom Boom Animation, a sponsor of Perry Chen’s animation short about a young Holocaust survivor: Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest.
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-81947/TS-445615.mp3
About Amazing Kids!
Founded in 1998 by Amazing Kids! President Alyse Rome, Amazing Kids! (http://amazing-kids.org) is a children’s educational non-profit organization and award-winning website dedicated to inspiring excellence in children, while helping them to realize their amazing potential and launch their dreams. A recent recipient of the American Library Association’s Top 24 “Great Websites for Kids” for 2010, the Amazing Kids! website supports kids’ achievement, creativity, critical thinking, and literacy through hosting ongoing creative contests and publishing the award-winning, kid-created Amazing Kids! Online Magazine.
February 2, 2011; Seattle, WA - Amazing Kids! (www.amazing-kids.org) and Perry’s Previews (www.perryspreviews.com) announced that entries are now being accepted for their first-ever “Amazing Kids!’ Perrific Oscar Picks!” Contest. Amazing Kids! and Perry’s Previews are challenging kids and teens worldwide, ages 6-17, to predict the Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature of 2010 for the upcoming 83rd Academy Awards and make their voice heard. Contestants are asked to name which of the top 3 Oscar-nominated feature animation films, How to Train Your Dragon (DreamWorks Animation), Toy Story 3 (Disney/Pixar), and The Illusionist (Sony Pictures Classics), they predict will win at the Academy Awards ceremony on February 27, 2011. Contestants have the option of submitting the reason for their pick in 50 words or less on the contest site.
Prizes will include DVDs of the best animated feature film of 2010 Oscar nominees and winner, and will be awarded to contest winners in a random drawing from those entries which correctly predict the Oscar winner. In addition, one grand prize winning “Best Essay” entry will receive copies of all three DVDs. The winners’ names will be featured on the Amazing Kids! website, amazing-kids.org with a following of nearly 1 million yearly visitors, and in the Amazing Kids! Magazine (mag.amazing-kids.org), as well as on Perry’s Previews (Perryspreviews.com). The winners will also be announced in the contest’s media sponsor, Kid Scoop, a syndicated weekly kids’ educational activities column appearing in over 300 newspapers across the U.S. (kidscoop.com/).
DreamWorks Animation is the first “Contest Sponsor,” having shipped 20 DVDs of “How to Train Your Dragon” as part of the prizes for the contest winners. Entries have been received from the United States, The United Kingdom, and Canada. More entries from other countries are expected in the coming weeks.
The “Amazing Kids!’ Perrific Oscar Picks!”contest is one of several movie-related contests planned by Amazing Kids! and Perry’s Previews in the coming months, including an upcoming kids’ movie review writing contest for kids which will be judged by Perry Chen, Amazing Kids! resident film critic, along with some of today’s most prominent adult critics.
The deadline to submit entries for the “Amazing Kids!’ Perrific Oscar® Picks!” is February 26, 2011, one day prior to the 83rd Academy Awards. More information and contest rules can be found on the main “Contests” page on the Amazing Kids! http://amazing-kids.org/contests.
Contestants (and/or their parents) are encouraged to become Facebook fans of Perry’s Previews and Amazing Kids to get timely updates about the contest:
http://www.facebook.com/perryspreviewsfan
http://www.facebook.com/amazingkids
For more information on this contest, listen to Canadian Radio Talk Show “Cutting Room Floor” hosted by Casey Ryan, featuring Perry Chen, his mom and co-producer of his animation film Dr. Zhu Shen, Amazing Kids President Alyse Rome, and Karina Bessoudo, Vice President of Marketing, Toom Boom Animation, a sponsor of Perry Chen’s animation short about a young Holocaust survivor: Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest.
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-81947/TS-445615.mp3
About Amazing Kids!
Founded in 1998 by Amazing Kids! President Alyse Rome, Amazing Kids! (http://amazing-kids.org) is a children’s educational non-profit organization and award-winning website dedicated to inspiring excellence in children, while helping them to realize their amazing potential and launch their dreams. A recent recipient of the American Library Association’s Top 24 “Great Websites for Kids” for 2010, the Amazing Kids! website supports kids’ achievement, creativity, critical thinking, and literacy through hosting ongoing creative contests and publishing the award-winning, kid-created Amazing Kids! Online Magazine.
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