Helium writing contest for education professionals

From Helium's website:

Welcome to the Helium Education Professionals Contest!

We’ve created a contest just for education professionals at Helium. It will tap their unique knowledge and experience.

To participate, you need to have one of these badges at Helium for Teachers, School Administrators, School Counselors, and University Professors

The contest submission period starts Wednesday, July 8, at 16:00 GMT, and ends 28 days later on Tuesday, August 4, at 23:59 GMT. (Figure your local time from GMT here.) Winners are usually announced the following Wednesday (eight days after the contest ends), after sufficient rating has taken place.

When contests shift to the “Awaiting Calculation” status, all titles within that contest will be closed to further submissions and Leapfrogs. This will allow the rating system to fairly evaluate the submitted articles. Once the contest is closed and the results announced, the titles to that contest will reopen for general writing submissions.

If you are a member and an education professional and want to participate in this contest, but don’t yet have one of our education professional badges, email us with a state licensing website link with information needed to verify your credentials online to experts@helium.com. Be sure to include your Helium About Me page URL. Barbara Whitlock and the Helium team will verify your information and you’ll be able to enter the contest quickly.

A few words about contest points:

• Points will be awarded for articles rated in the top 55% for each title—the higher your rank at contest end, the more points you earn. But watch out: You’ll get negative points for articles ranked by your peers in the lower 45%.
• New articles are always inserted at the 50th percentile; as a result a new article will not earn or lose points until the community has rated the article against other articles submitted to the same title.
• Ties in ratings can and do occur. These ties are not displayed as a tie on the site. To illustrate, consider the case of a tie in ratings when there are only two articles to a title. It is possible that neither article will earn points because they are tied and each is considered at the 50th percentile even though one is displayed above the other.

Looking for more great prospects for writing and earning? Check out Helium Marketplace, where Helium teams you up with publishers looking for freelancers.

Winners earn:

1		1st Prize at $60
1		2nd Prize at $40
1		3rd Prize at $30

How to earn points:

• 5 points - over 95th percentile
• 4 points - over 85th percentile
• 3 points - over 75th percentile
• 2 points - over 65th percentile
• 1 points - over 55th percentile
• 0 points - over 45th percentile
• -1 points - over 35th percentile
• -2 points - over 25th percentile
• -3 points - over 15th percentile
• -4 points - over 5th percentile
• -5 points - 0- 5th percentile

Be sure to read a copy of Helium’s Writing Standards before you enter the contest.

This week's contest titles:

• A summer vacation survival guide for teachers teaching summer school
• Classroom management strategies for handling students on field trips
• Factors to consider for teachers transitioning to school administrator roles
• Guide to appropriate friendships among college professors and students
• How professors can network with businesses to create student opportunities
• How school administrators can build teamwork among teachers
• How school principals can build closer relationships with students
• Strategies for engaging students in summer school
• Summer school trends: Kindergarteners put in reading summer school
• Teacher tips: How to help homeschoolers transitioning to high school
• Teacher tips: How to organize a successful field trip for high school students
• Teacher tips: How to use your summer vacation to improve your teaching
• The dangers to college students who revere their college professors
• The pros and cons of college teachers moonlighting for online degree programs
• What teachers should consider before choosing to teach summer school