Design Contest

"School Breakfast Detectives" Book Cover Contest

New this year is a design contest, where students will have the opportunity to design their own school breakfast detective in the form of a book cover. Students also title the book with a healthy eating spin e.g. "The Case of the Missing Breakfast".

Three national winners will receive a prize pack. The local contests will run January 1, 2011 to March 11, 2011, and national entries are due March 31, 2011.

Contest Overview

  • The "School Breakfast Detectives" Book Cover Contest has local and national rounds of competition. All entries by students must be made to a local competition (to be organized by and held in schools). Please note that the only way to enter this contest is through a participating school, you cannot enter the national contest directly.
  • Students (from grades 1-12) should create the "School Breakfast Detectives" Book Cover on the official contest entry form using a traditional drawing or sketch.

    Entries must be original, not plagiarized and not evocative of any existing commercial characters so as not to infringe any copyrights or trademarks.
  • The School Nutrition Association (SNA) is encouraging schools across the nation to hold local "School Breakfast Detectives" Book Cover contests. School Nutrition Professionals or other participating school officials can enter 3 overall winners per participating school to the national contest. Please note that students cannot enter the national contest directly, they must be nominated by a School Nutrition Professional or school official.
  • To judge the national contest, a panel of judges will select three overall winners, based on pre-established criteria which will be published as part of the official contest rules.
  • Three national winners will receive a prize pack.
  • Local school contests can run from January 1, 2011 to March 11, 2011 and national entries are due March 31, 2011.

Contest Forms

  • School Nutrition Association
  • General Mills
  • National Diary Council
  • U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council