Homefront Help: Blue Star Museums

Rita, Thanks so much for highlighting our amazing program, Blue Star Museums. We now have over 850 museums participating nationwide! We are so thrilled with the participation from museums, who truly honor military families. We hope many families are taking this chance to enjoy a special outing at no cost. We've heard from many who are! It's wonderful. If anyone has any questions about Blue Star Museums, they are welcome to email museums@bluestarfam.org. We're also offering a contest with the program. The grand prize is a $500 savings bond, three first place prizewinners each will receive a $250 savings bond, and three second place prizewinners each will receive a $100 savings bond. The contest is open to all military children ages 3 to 17. Military children include any child who has a parent or sibling (including step-parents and siblings) serving on active duty, in the reserves or in the National Guard Children who enter will send a picture or photos from a museum visit or inspired by Blue Star Museums, with a short description of why they are glad they got to visit the museum. All art will include, in some way, the blue star. Entries may be emailed to museums@bluestarfam.org in a PDF or JPG format. A panel of judges from Blue Star Families will select the winners, and winning artwork will be displayed on the Blue Star Families Web site and in the Blue Star Museums book. Winners will be announced on October 8, 2010. The contest runs from July 1, 2010 through September 12, 2010. For more details about the contest and entries, see the contest rules and guidelines at http://bluestarfam.org/drupal/?q=node/3062.