Until March 27, the Hillsdale College Bookstore is accepting submissions for their spring break photo contest.
Before spring break, the bookstore encouraged students to pick up a plastic bag, take it with them wherever they were headed, and snap a picture with it. In order to enter the contest, students must submit the picture with their name, the location the photo was taken, and the names of any people in the photo.
Angie Berry, trade book coordinator, said they did the same thing in 2008. It went very well, so she wanted to bring it back.
So far, only five people have submitted a photo, but Berry said other students have come in asking about how to enter and she expects more pictures soon.
One student has a picture with the bag while skydiving. Another shows the bag on the beach surrounded by warm sand and a towel.
The grand prize is a $50 bookstore gift card, while the second and third place winners will receive me.u stereophonic earphones, according to the contest official rules.
Berry added that Barbara Bushey, department chairman of art, Cindy Hoard, science division secretary, and John Somerville, associate professor of English, will judge the contest entries on March 31.
Until then, students can see the pictures hanging in the bookstore window.
“Just enjoy it. This is fun,” Berry said. “I’m just glad I don’t have to judge it. That would be very hard.”
