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.