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Name Your Dream Assignment Contest

by Brenda Yun (RSS feed) on Mar 5th 2009 at 9:30AM

Calling all aspiring travel photo-journalists! If you've ever dreamed of having $50,000 in cash to live out your travel dreams, keeping a blog, and taking photos along the way, now is your chance. Lenovo and Microsoft have teamed up to offer an unbelievably cool travel contest that is really as simple as putting your dream assignment in photos and words for the rest of the U.S. to daydream about.

The contest is called the Name Your Dream Assignment, and it's open to writers and photographers of all backgrounds. The contestant with the winning idea will win $50,000 to bring his or her dream assignment to life. In addition to this amazing cash prize, the winner will win a digital camcorder and a Lenovo ThinkPad. Two runners-up will get the Lenovo laptop too.

The contest started on March 3rd and will continue until April 3. At that point, the 20 entries with the most PICS will be judged by an expert panel, which will choose the winner based on originality, creativity, skill, and experience.

Get crackin', people! Some Gadling members and readers have already submitted their dream assignments (see links below). If you have dream up of an assignment and post it on the site, feel free to add your link to the comments section below. I'm more than happy to PIC yours if you PIC mine! :)

Mine:
http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/hibren/minority-languages/

Reader Bernie's:
http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/berniesiao/drowning-cultures/

Gadling Guru Willy's:
http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/WillyVolk/shooting-sharks-around-the-world-underwater-and-topside/

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

augustgreen Mar 5th 2009 10:10AM

Here's the link to mine - http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/geotraveler/happy-happy-joy-joy/

SoniaBonia Mar 5th 2009 10:48AM

I have one too!
http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/SoniaBonia/cultures-collide/

Mogmismo Mar 5th 2009 6:39PM

Wow, this would be a lot of traveling. Good luck, I like your idea and pic'd yours.

--Mog

Here's Mine: Breach the Wall

Jon Mar 9th 2009 10:52PM

And here's my idea:
http://jontabar.com/go/voteforjon

Check it out and vote! :)

Jaxson Mar 10th 2009 11:40AM

Please check out this idea, and vote if you like it!
http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/jangelashumskas/ring-of-fire-and-serenity/

View her pics at http://pinxit.smugmug.com/

Thanks!

Skylab Mar 10th 2009 12:47PM

Great entries everyone! Here's mine for anybody interested ;) http://tinyurl.com/c3x9us

mogmismo Mar 16th 2009 10:29AM

Argh, my URL didn't come through in my last post!

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/mogmismo/walls-the-way-we-separate-ourselves/

The website describing this project is here: http://breachthewalls.com

Let's see if the links work this time...

Thanks all

Dima Mar 18th 2009 7:52PM

Good luck with your assignments!

Here is a link to mine: http://tiny.cc/WorldThroughTheirEyes

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