Oklahoma Historical Society Press RoomPress Release

Oklahoma Historical Society Announces Student Photo Contest

Contact: Jennifer Towry
(405) 522-4019
Shea Otley (405) 522-4485

Oklahoma City, OK
March 10, 2009
For Immediate Release

OHS Kids! and the Oklahoma History Center are once again looking for your best photographs of Oklahoma. Suggested topics include landscapes, wildlife, plants, flowers, architecture and historic structures.

Contest categories are grades 1-5, grades 6-8, and grades 9-12. First, second and third place prizes will be awarded in each category. The contest runs March 1 to May 1. Winners will be announced May 15 here on OHS Kids!

Entries will be judged on creativity and photographic technique.

First Place winners in each category will receive: 1-Year Membership to the Oklahoma Historical Society, $25 Gift Certificate to the History Center Gift Shop, and 1-Year Subscription to Outdoor Oklahoma. Second place winners will receive: 1 Family Pass to the Oklahoma History Center, and an item from the History Center Gift Shop. Third place winners will receive 1 Family Pass to the Oklahoma History Center.

For complete rules and entry forms visit:http://www.okhistory.org/kids/contests.html.

For additional information contact Shea Otley at (405) 522-4485 or Jennifer Towry at (405) 522-4019 or email kids@okhistory.org.