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The SD Office of Local Transportation Programs - Aeronautics and South Dakota Pilots Association are sponsors of the annual South Dakota Aviation Art Contest for children aged 6 to 17. The contest has been held in South Dakota in past years, but has not been widely publicized in the past. Soooooo, tell your kids, your grandkids, your neighbor kids, and school teachers!!
Each year a different theme is selected for the Art Contest and in 2010 the theme is “Flying with the Sun.” More information about the contest and links to the other web sites can be found at the SD Office of Local Transportation Programs - Aeronautics web site: www.sddot.com/fpa/aeronautics/general_art.asp. This web site also has images of the top three South Dakota winners in each age category for past years.
Artwork of winners will be published in the SDPA newsletter and SDPA web site.
Flying with the Sun
In Greek mythology, the boy Icarus flew too close to the sun and the wax holding his feathered wings together melted. Since then, girls and boys have built their own kites and toy gliders to safely soar in the sky. These girls and boys have grown up to be the women and men who learned to harness the power of the sun for flight. As paragliders and glider pilots, they soar like hawks higher and higher, using air heated by the sun, called thermals, to rise high in the sky. They take balloons across the countryside and across continents. With new solar technology, pilots, and engineers are expanding flight into a new world of possibilities.
Space explorers have been using solar energy for many years for power in space stations and satellites. That technology, together with highly advanced electric motors and batteries has returned to earth for improved flight. What new sun-powered combinations between sports aviation, passenger aircraft, and space technology are waiting to take you to the skies in the future?
Already, solar flyers like the Icare II and Sunseeker are pushing the limits of what gliders can do. The SolarImpulse project might soon push these limits further: To fly a solar-powered aircraft around the world. Not only are they creating a whole new category for solar-powered craft distance and height records to break, they are paving the way for new, fuel efficient ways to fly that take into account how important it is to use energy resources responsibly.
Imagine what the skies would look like in the future as these new technologies merge with traditional solar fliers and take to the air. How will we travel and play in the solar-powered skies?
Grab your favorite artist’s tools and create a poster for this year’s competition: Flying with the Sun.
This Year’s Deadline: Entries must be postmarked by January 15, 2010, and must be sent to the SD Office of Local Transportation Programs - Aeronautics (700 East Broadway Avenue, Pierre, SD 57501).
This Year’s Theme: This year’s theme is “Flying with the Sun.” Artwork will be judged, at least in part, for its creative use of this year’s theme in relation to the aviation world.
Eligibility: All children in the age groups shown below are encouraged to participate in the Contest, even if they are related to officials or employees of the SD Office of Local Transportation Programs - Aeronautics.
Age Groups: Entries will be judged in three classes (determined by the age of the entrant on December 31, 2009). I. Ages 6 to 9; II. Ages 10 to 13; III. Ages 14 to 17.
State Awards: Entries in each age group will be judged and state winners and runners-up will be selected (typically Jennifer Clements and Sharon Anderson, SD Department of Transportation, are the contest judges). Winners will receive a first, second, or third place certificate and recognition from the SD Office of Local Transportation Programs - Aeronautics. The SD Office of Local Transportation Programs - Aeronautics and the SDPA also give winners either art supplies, or aviation-related items such as model rockets or model airplanes (Legos kits that can be made into airplanes for the younger kids). The top three winners in each age category will be published in the SDPA newsletter & SDPA web site and presented on the SD Office Local Transportation Programs - Aeronautics web site. The top three entries in each age group from South Dakota will be forwarded to Washington, DC, to participate in the national competition.
National Awards: A first, second, and third place national winner will be selected from each age group. All national winners will receive a certificate, ribbon, and a framed reproduction of their artwork.
International Awards: The first, second, and third place national winners in each age group will be forwarded to FAI (Federation Aeronautique Internationale) headquarters for international judging. Winners of the international competition will receive certificates and gold, silver, or bronze medals.
Artwork Dimensions: Artwork size should be 11-3/4x16 inches, or if this is unobtainable, the nearest possible equivalent. 8.5x11 entries are NOT eligible. Artwork must NOT be framed, mounted, or outlined with borders.
Medium: All artwork must be hand (or, in the case of physically challenged children, by foot or mouth) made. Any of the following media: watercolor, acrylic, oil paints, indelible markers, felt-tip pens, soft ball-point pens, indelible ink, Crayola, or similar indelible mediums. The following media are NOT permitted: Pencil, charcoal or other nonpermanent medium may not be used; no computer generated artwork is permitted; no collage work involving the use of photocopies is permitted.
Certification: A parent, guardian, or art teacher must certify the authenticity of artwork and the age of each artist. The following details should be clearly shown on the back of the artwork: artist’s name, and school which child attends, and certificate of authenticity.
Reproduction Rights: Once received, entries will become and remain the property of the Fédération Aeronautique Internationale or SD Office of Local Transportation Programs – Aeronautics and may be used for a variety of purposes.
Sponsors: The SD Aviation Art Contest is sponsored by the South Dakota Department of Transportation and the South Dakota Pilots Association. For more information and a copy of the official brochure containing the Certificate of Authenticity, contact Jennifer Clements at the SD Office of Local Transportation Programs - Aeronautics, Pierre, SD (phone 605-773-4430 or email jennifer.clements@state.sd.us).
2010 SD Aviation
Art Contest Winners. Theme: “Flying with the Sun”
Click here for winners. (PDF)
