Want to kick off the school year with $5,000?
Office Depot and Sharpie are holding a contest to find the nation's best backpack art design and are offering $5,000 to the grand prize winner.The winning backpack design will be reproduced and sold in Office Depot stores during the 2010 back-to-school season. There's also cash for runners up. The first place prize is $3,000, and second place is $2,000, an Office Depot news release states.
Participants can purchase one of four canvas backpacks for $14.99 - which come in blue, pink, olive or khaki and include two free Sharpie markers - decorate it, take a photo of it and upload the photo to the contest's Web site.
Participants also may enter by downloading the Sharpie backpack template, decorating it and uploading the design, the contest Web site states.
Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. central time Sept. 19. The top finalists' entries will be posted online on the Web site and the country will vote on the winner.
For more information, go the contest Web site.
Office Depot sent The Bee a pink canvas backpack, along with two Sharpie markers, to try out.
If you're local and interested in designing the backpack, e-mail me. The first person to send me their information can have it, provided they send The Bee a digital picture of the final product that we can post on this blog.
Please include your name, age, kids' ages (if any), city of residence and phone number in your e-mail.
