Contests

Click here to download: 2022 Events Poster

Visual images can reflect the values we hold dear. The art contest is an opportunity for students from K to 12 grade to create and complete a work that can have a positive influence on others. It is intended to help students cherish our freedoms. The theme this year is the First Amendment to the Constitution. Entry Deadline is February 28.

Each year the Freedom Festival Essay Contest gives rise to expressions of patriotism from students in K-12th grades nationwide. The theme this year is the First Amendment to the Constitution. Entry deadline is Feb 28.

Win up to $500.00 for each division.

Education is vital in the preservation of freedoms. Teachers who instill devotion to liberty are crucial.  The Freedom Festival teacher contest is an opportunity for teachers to be recognized for their work in the classroom. The theme this year is based on the First Amendment to the Constitution. Curriculum is available on the Freedom Festival
website that can aid the teacher.

Entry deadline is May 14.

Win up to $500.00 and a pizza party for your school participants in Hope of America!

Fifth-grade students from more than 100 schools gather in the Marriott Center at BYU each spring to celebrate America’s freedom through song, choreography, video, and sign language.  The Hope of America School Spirit Contest recognizes schools with the highest percentage of participation and pays special tribute to the school’s efforts to endear patriotism.  Entry deadline for School Spirit contest is May 14.

To participate in the Hope of America event, or to use the material in your own school, please contact: sherry@freedomfestival.org

Dates: TBD For more information visit: hopeofamerica.org

BIG THANKS to Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream for sponsoring our event. They are generously offering a DOUBLE scoop for the price of a single to any who go into one of their stores and uses code “Abraham Lincoln”!