Do you know a young, creative mind?

Madeleine Benner holding her first place award
York Electric is proud to have had two of the statewide winners for the Children’s Book Competition. Madeleine Benner won with her book, Angel the Solar Bird, in 2021.

Students can become published authors through Children’s Book Challenge

Do you know any creative writers or artists in the fourth or fifth grade?

If so, encourage them to enter York Electric’s Children’s Book Challenge. They could become published authors by next summer!

A smiling Carolyn Zheng wearing a festive hat and big smile with her award.
Carolyn Zheng won with her book When Wind Meets Windmill in 2020. Will you be our next local, famous author?

Sponsored by South Carolina’s electric cooperatives, the EnlightenSC Children’s Book Challenge gives fourth and fifth grade students the opportunity to write and illustrate a book while learning about energy, their environment and community. It’s also a great opportunity for classrooms to meet multiple state education standards in art, science, language arts, and social studies.

In addition, students and their teachers can win cash prizes, have their book distributed to schools across the state and be recognized at the South Carolina Statehouse. Winners are selected and awarded prize money at the local level. All local winners are automatically entered for a chance to win the statewide prize of $500. Statewide winning books are printed and shared with elementary school libraries in South Carolina.

Getting started is simple. Go to enlightensc.org/book to learn more about the program and to register. The deadline for teachers to register their students is Nov. 1.