Friday, September 5, 2008

Calling All Artists!

The Fern Bluff Math Pentathlon Bobcats Club needs a look. A logo. A T-Shirt design of our very own. When we go to the National Tournament next spring with schools from all over the state, we want everyone to know that Fern Bluff Elementary is in the house. Kinder students will wear them. Moms & Dads will wear them. Teachers will wear them. So we need a design that works for small and large T-shirts. Think broad strokes that screen print well. We'll want to print on a color T-Shirt so plan to incorporate that into your design. Forget pink, purple or any other color T-shirt that doesn't work well for everyone. Try yellow, orange, gold, red, maroon, or another hot color for the actual T-Shirt but don't use blue or green because many of the teams at tournament have a blue or green T-Shirt and we want to stand out!


Math Pentathlon is all about learning math through game play. Our students learn and play five games each in their respective divisions, and are called PENTATHLETES. For inspiration, take a look at what it's all about at www.mathpentath.org where you can see what some of the games look like and also see t-shirt designs used by other schools. MUST HAVE the phrases "Fern Bluff Elementary" and "Math Pentathlon" in the artwork, although not necessarily together. There are no other design requirements. Submit your design to the school, attn: Lisa Mack by 3:00 PM September 19th. The Math Club volunteer staff will review all of the entries and choose their favorites to present to the Math Club students. Because this is an exciting election year, we plan to model the voting process of our nation:

  1. Each student will cast a vote for their favorite design.
  2. The design that has the majority of votes within each of the seven sections of students will receive one vote to reflect the popular vote of their section.
  3. The winning design for our T-Shirts will need only a simple majority of those seven votes.
We'll even consider primaries, if necessary!

If your design is chosen to represent our club, you'll win our heartfelt appreciation, bragging rights as over 150 people proudly wear your design, and your very own T-shirt, of course.

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