2018 Winners – The San Diego Chapter had over 150 entries from the Muirlands Middle School in La Jolla.
The top three winners in the photo below were, from left to right, 1st place Basanti Valerio, 2nd place Sylvie Bass, 3rd place winner Ariana Domenico. Basanti’s entry also won an Honorable Mention medal and a check at the California State society competition.
All of the entries were wonderful, and that made judging especially difficult this year. Because so many of the entries were exceptional, the Chapter Board decided to award certificates for the top three winners in each of seven classes along with the top three winners.
The picture above shows all of the class winners and their entries on class poster boards with San Diego Color Guard Commander Skip Cox and Chapter President Barry Key.
2017 Winners
The San Diego Chapter is proud to announce this year’s winners of the National Society, S.A.R., Americanism Middle School Brochure Contest! The winners are shown receiving their S.A.R. certificates. Congratulations to all!
Please participate in next year’s contest!
The Middle School Brochure Contest is a contest for 8th graders in California. The contest is to create a tri-fold brochure out of an 8 ½” x 11″ piece of paper while following the prescribed guidelines. The complete 9 page instruction Guide is available as Resource Material below. Also available, and highly recommended, is a single page, Rules-at-a-Glance.
The Brochure Contest is a relatively new SAR Contest. It started in California in the school year 2010-11 and became a National program in the school year 2013-14. As a National program it is named, The Sgt. Moses Adams Memorial Middle School Brochure Contest.
The California Brochure Contest is open to 8th grade children attending: public school, private school, home schooled and when a child’s school is not participating in the contest, the contest is open to them as members of the: C.A.R. (Children of the American Revolution), and/or when involved in scouting.
The National SAR Americanism Committee has changed the Brochure Contest theme to now fit with middle school curriculums across the nation. While the Poster Contest will continue to follow the traditional annual contest theme approach, the middle school brochure contest will follow the essay contest model by establishing a broader theme. Here are the Committee’s guidelines:
The permanent Middle School Brochure Contest theme is “The Foundational Documents of the United States“. These documents include:
- Articles of Confederation
- Declaration of Independence
- Constitution
- Federalist Papers
- Bill of Rights
The theme for the Brochure Contest is structured to match up with the Government curricula that is found in the majority of states during the middle school years. The students will be encouraged to pick a particular founding document and produce a brochure within the established criteria. Having a permanent theme will eliminate the need to revisit the theme on an annual basis while providing a significant amount of flexibility to adapt to the established curricula.
Chapter Brochure winners will receive recognition at the Chapter level. Chapter winners then compete at the State level; and the California State winner will compete in the National Competition for even more prizes.