Competitions
Every year we run several competitions for our members, and the entries are judged at the Great Dorset Steam Fair.
We run:
- An art competition on a given theme.
- A Model competition based on a design.
- Colouring Competition
- Junior Photo Competition (up to 15s)
- Senior Photo Competition (16 and over)
The competition details have been printed in the July edition of raising steam (April for the Model Comp), and are available here on the website.
An album of last year's competition enries can be seen in the photo gallery HERE and the model designs for the 2009 competition are now in the activities page.
Art Competition 2010
This is the theme for the Dorset Show so we are looking for your ideas based on this subject.
Entries can be in any medium, pastels, oils, watercolours, crayons, felt tips, anything you like.
The maximum size will be A3. That is not to say you have to use that size, you can choose to go much smaller if you wish. If you are using pastels or charcoal, then please use some fixative to preserve it, especially if you are forced to post it (even hairspray works!).
This competition will be open to those aged 12 and over.
Entries to be sent to either Nick Bosworth (address inside Raising Steam) by 21st August, or handed in at the stand in the NTET tent no later than 10a.m. Saturday of the Great Dorset Fair.
Colouring Competition 2010
(For Members aged up to 14 years old)
Download the picture (link below) or CAREFULLY remove the centre page from the July Edition of Raising Steam ask an adult for help if necessary
be especially careful of the staples.
COLOUR the picture using pencils, crayons, paints or felt pens.
WRITE your name, age, address and membership number in the space provided.
POST your entry in a large envelope, to avoid folding it too much.
ENCLOSE a large stamped addressed envelope if you want your entry returned.
REMEMBER to send your entry to arrive with Nick Bosworth by Saturday 21st August (address inside Raising Steam).
The competition is open to all apprentices up to the age of 14.
Click HERE to download the picture for this year's competition
To view the download you need Adobe Reader. Click here to download.
Model Competition 2010
This year at the Great Dorset Steam Fair we're running our usual model competition.
This year the model is a Mamod Scale Threshing Drum
Made by William Foster of Lincoln in 1947, number 8832. It is classified as a 54" medium finishing Threshing machine.
The difference between a light, medium and heavy machine is weight of the drum and concave, the threshing mechanism.
The wheels were selected by the buyer from a choice of pneumatic, wooden or iron and the corrugated iron roof was an optional extra.
The Drury family got the machine in 1977 and it has worked every year since.
Click HERE for the instructions on how to make the Threshing Drum
To view the instructions you need Adobe Reader. Click here to download.
Photo Competition 2010
The annual photographic competition is an ongoing one, and starts almost as soon as the last one has finished, so lets have as many of you as possible entering your best photographs that you have taken this year.
The competition is split into 2 age groups up to 15 years and 16 years old and over. Engraved medals and other prizes will be presented to the winners.
The best overall entry will be presented with the Dorset Trophy and will receive a book donated by NTET Sales.
Rules:
- Entry to this competition is restricted to fully subscribed members of the Steam
Apprentice Club (SAC).
- Each members entry will consist of 3 photographs. They may be 6 x 4 prints, colour
or black and white, and can be digital.
If supplying digital entries they may be supplied
on disc in jpeg format, e-mailed to sac.webmaster@ntet.co.uk, or you can supply 3 prints on photo quality gloss paper. Because
they may be reproduced in this magazine afterwards, the resolution should be not less than
the maximum setting on a 2 megapixel camera.
All pictures should have been taken during the period 1st August 2009 to 31st July 2010. - Entries must be sent to Nick Bosworth, (address inside Raising Steam).
Posted entries should arrive by Saturday 21st August 2010.
E-mailed entries (to sac.webmaster@ntet.co.uk) until 29th August 2010. - All entries must have the following details on the reverse of the photograph (or on the
disc): Name, Address, Age and SAC membership number; place, date and details of the
engine or subject. (It is better to write these details on a piece of paper and then stick this
on.)
- Copyright in all entries will remain with the SAC member submitting the photographs
and the organisers promise that prints will not be used in any manner or display other than
in connection with the 2010 photographic competition.
- All entries are to include a suitable stamped addressed envelope to ensure all materials
can be returned.
- Entries will be displayed at the 2010 Great Dorset Steam Fair in the NTET tent. Entries
will be returned after display and/or publication in the magazine.
- The competition will be judged in two age groups: up to 15 years; 16 years and over. Prizes and engraved medals for First, Second and Third places in each group will be awarded. The best overall entry will receive the Dorset Trophy shield, to be held for one year.
The judges will be looking for originality, composition and technical ability. Photographs do not have to be of traction engines, but other subjects must clearly be related to the traction engine movement.
The judges decision on all entries will be final and members are asked to accept them in a spirit that will bring credit to themselves and the Steam Apprentice Club.
Guess The Engine
If you can work out which steam engine this is, send us your guess HERE
This is a monthly competition, so check back next month for the answer and the winners!
Last Month's Photo was of Fowler Tiger Tractor "Mr Blower", and the winner is Daniel March.
