Welcome to Fresh Ideas!

Welcome to Fresh Ideas!

Welcome to the online home of Fresh Ideas--a very special contest for 5-12 grade students in far Northeast Washington!

Congratulations to this year's Fresh Idealists! Be sure to share your victory with family and friends--even new people you meet. You never know who you may inspire. Use your prizes to keep thinking, creating, entering, winning! The world needs you.

Thanks to all the judges, sponsors, volunteers, and others who helped to make this year's contest a success. We couldn't have done it without you!

VISITOR'S TO DO LIST:

Visit the "Gallery of Fresh Idealists" and be amazed by the talent and intelligence growing right in our backyard.
Visit the "About Fresh Ideas" page to learn about our mission, history, and vision for the future.
Click through our "Fresh Links" to learn more about our sponsors, judges, and related information.
Then drop us a line in our Guestbook and vote in our People's Choice polls--we'd love to know what you think!
Share what you've seen here with a friend.

News and Events

Are you in the Washington area? Come down to the Capitol View Public Library during the month of May 2006 to witness the best entries in living color! The library is located at 5001 Central Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20019. For hours and directions, visit the D.C. Public Library site at http://www.dclibrary.org.

Then join us on May 16 at 6 p.m. when we will celebrate the creativity and intellect of our winners at the first annual Fresh Ideas award ceremony and winner's reception. Location: Marshall Heights Community Development Organization , 3939 Benning Rd. NE, Washington, DC 20019.

Thanks in advance to Mrs. Irene Wilson, librarian; Mrs. Heather Ampofo-Anti, reception coordinator; and the staff of MHCDO for helping to make these events a success.

Fresh Links

Visit this page to learn more about Fresh Ideas 2 judges and sponsors, including our two newest sponsors, Young Men Read and the African Continuum Theatre Company!

Take these thoughts with you as you leave our site:

The Paradoxical Commandments! by Kent M. Keith

People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest persons with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest persons with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.