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2013 Essay Contest Prompt
Make a career of humanity

In 1958 while in Washington, DC, the Reverend Dr. King said, "Make a career of humanity, and you will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in." This quotation appears on the MLK National Memorial in that same city.

The MLK Day Essay Contest Committee, in conjunction with the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs (DEMA), invites IU Bloomington students to submit an original written or video essay that draws on their experience to respond to this question:

How do you plan to make a career of humanity?

Successful essays will answer the question, and refer specifically not only to the writer's personal experience and observations but also to the life, times, and writings of Dr. King.

Categories:	Undergraduate written; undergraduate video; graduate written; graduate video (prizes may not be awarded in all categories)
Length:	1,000-1,500 words for written essays; 30-120 seconds for video essays
Eligibility:	All IU Bloomington students (previous first-place award winners are ineligible)
Prizes:	Apple iPad
Deadline:	Monday, November 26, 2012, 5:00 pm

Submissions:

1. All entries, written and video, require an essay and a cover sheet.
2. Cover sheets must include name, address, phone number, and e-mail addresses. Entrants' names should not appear in the essays. To ensure blind judging, students should not show drafts of their essays to committee members or judges.
3. Files: Written essays should be forwarded as Microsoft Word documents with the cover sheet at the beginning of the document to mlkjr@indiana.edu.
   Video essays should be copied to CD or DVD, with a cover sheet as a separate Microsoft Word document on the same disk and delivered to DEMA, Bryan Hall 115. Please DO NOT send videos as attachments; videos sent as attachments will be disqualified. Guidelines for video contest are here.

Please click the following links for detailed submissions guidelines:

Written Essay Contest Guidelines
Video Essay Contest Guidelines
Video Essay Contest Submission Form (required for video essay submissions)
Video Essay Participant Release Form (required for any person[s] appearing in the video essay, including but not limited to persons videotaped, quoted, or recorded)

Prizes will be distributed at the annual MLK Jr. Day Celebration Breakfast on January 21, 2013.

Past Contest Winners
2012:   Living King's Legacy: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century   (essay contest guidelines)
UNDERGRADUATES		GRADUATES
1st place	Jamie Ehrenpreis	1st place	Olusola Lawal
VIDEO
1st place	Michael Goodman
2012 First-Place Video Essay by Michael Goodman
2011:   Sustaining the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   (essay contest guidelines)
UNDERGRADUATES		GRADUATES
1st place	Shabrelle Pollock	1st place	Hanguyl Kim
2010:   Now Is the Time: Making Real the Promise   (essay contest press release 2010)
UNDERGRADUATES		GRADUATES
1st place	Joseph Slabaugh	1st place	Scarlett Brooks
2nd place	Michael Coleman, Jr.	2nd place	Desiree Chuang
3rd place	Alex Luboff
2009:   Times of Challenge and Controversy   (essay contest flyer 2009)
UNDERGRADUATES		GRADUATES
1st place	Sachet Watson	1st place	Jennifer Davis
2nd place	Abigail Skinner	2nd place	Tiffani Saunders
3rd place	Taracciola Morales	3rd place	Mai-Lin Poon
2008:   Building the Community: Making the Dream a Reality   (essay contest flyer 2008)

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