<p>hey vanillasky, if you get a gold key for screenplay we’ll be competing for nationals :)</p>
<p>Does anyone know when the national awards are judged and there are notifications?</p>
<p>Last year national writing found out in early April.</p>
<p>hey guys. my teacher got an e-mail saying something like “if students received gold key awards at your school they will be notified blah blah blah”. so does that mean i won something? it didn’t specify any awards in a specific category. i was thinking it could be a courteous e-mail or something, but i heard scholastic won’t notify you if you don’t win anything and it specifically said gold key. and there were a couple of other people at my school who entered; could it be that they won an award but i didn’t? AHHH</p>
<p>i received 5 gold keys for journlaism</p>
<p>to answer fredmar’s question, i recall finding out on Good Friday in April specifically</p>
<p>congrats to all and good luck!</p>
<p>^ the other people who entered had a diff. teacher sponsor (to my previous post).</p>
<p>late March?? that’s odd… so how many gold keys make it to nationals?</p>
<p>So if I haven’t heard anything in the mail, should I ask my teacher?</p>
<p>Did any of you RAL people get a notification yet? Does it come by email or snailmail or both? I honestly dont remember putting my teacher’s email on the application, only my school address and my own information…</p>
<p>i think it comes by snailmail for teachers who registered themselves. i’m not sure, can someone clarify?</p>
<p>yup it comes by snailmail. the teacher gets a list of the school winners but the winners don’t get notified until late March.</p>
<p>Haha, my teacher just told me I got something, but I entered a general portfolio and a nonfiction portfolio so I don’t know which one it was. I also think she thought it was a way bigger deal than it actually was. :P</p>
<p>I turned in my application really last minute, so I dont know if they got it on time, it might have been a day late. Are they really strict on deadlines?</p>
<p>nah, they’re not strict. ^
i wouldn’t worry about it.</p>
<p>and does anyone know what the letter my teacher got means? it doesn’t specify any actual awards won it said "if students received gold key awards at your school they will be notified blah blah blah though; but i registered myself and not my teacher.</p>
<p>It seems that most people here are on the writing side of Scholastics.
Do your schools compete in just the writing competition or both the writing and art?
As far as I know, our school only participates in the art. I don’t think any student has submited writing.</p>
<p>my school doesnt really participate in the contest. Last year we only had two participatns, both of whom won gold awards. Otherwise, nothing, which is bad for me because I did the painting category. I think my teacher was aware that I was sending somethign in when I asked her to sign my paper,but she might have forgotten all about it though! What if she mistakened the notification for an advertisement? :[</p>
<p>On the scholastic website it says that theyll post gold key winners. I guess we can wait until then?</p>
<p>*post gold key people in march</p>
<p>My D’s school doesn’t participate at all. They’ve never heard of it. She submitted both writing and art portfolios in January (she is a serious artist - applying to art schools - as well as a writer). But she had zero teacher involvement. SHe put two names on because Scholastic demanded it, but the school is so clueless I’m not even sure they’d forward the mail to the teachers (stacks of mail sit for weeks unsorted). Just so I understand–you say they let the individual kids know in March? Thanks.</p>
<p>Yep. I was RAL and I found out ~March 14th last year.</p>
<p>Thanks! (Just wanted to put ‘thanks’ but they wouldn’t let me. So…Thanks a lot! :-)</p>