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With all the news about so many people in need after hurricane Katrina stormed across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama leaving New Orleans completely devastated and the  Gulf Coast in shambles, there will be many needs that will have to be met. I'm sure the kids and teens across the nation will step up and make a huge difference, whether it's in small, individual ways or in large, collective efforts by classrooms, scout groups, faith efforts or simply a group of neighborhood kids getting together to take care of one small need in their immediate community.

If you have already begun to take steps to help out, don't forget to write me and tell me what your doing and send any photos so I can share them on this blog. If you're between the ages of 9 and 19, check out the contest details at the website and enter this year's contest.

So tell me, what are you doing right now to help? Have you identified an immediate need? Do you know someone who needs help right away? How can you help?

TeensTakeAction.com Contest-Overview

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To help spur you forward, I'm starting a contest: the TeensTakeAction.com contest. Tweens and teens are invited to enter whether you do something individually or as part of a small group of friends, or as part of a class or church project or boy or girl scout project, etc. The prize? $500. The deadline? December 31, 2005.

There's plenty of time to come up with an idea and make it happen. I'll continue to provide you more information, but to get you started here's what you need to do:

1. Look around your neighborhood or your community and see if you can identify a need where you can help or, perhaps, a wrong that you could help correct.

2. See if anything is being done now or has been done in the past.

3.  Draw up a plan.

4.  Carry out the plan.

5.  Take photos.

6.  When you've accomplished your goal or made a significant contribution, write up what you've done and send it to me with accompanying photos.

That's essentially it.

There will be formal entry forms and the inevitable rules and regulations, but this is primarily what's needed and expected to enter the contest.

Check back often for more updates and look under the contest category.

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