The annual Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest encourages neighborhood beautification by offering classes in planting window boxes, planters, and tree pits and recognizing outstanding efforts.

Mrs. Neville — Cory's teacher in the beginning of the book, who encourages him to enter a short-story contest.

FT Predict is a prediction market contest the Financial Times is hosting that allows users to buy and sell contracts based on future financial, political, and news-driven events by spending fictional Financial Times Dollars ( FT $).

On the second day of the contest, when users were allowed to physically interact with the computers ( the prior day permitted only network attacks ), Charlie Miller compromised Mac OS X through an unpatched vulnerability of the PCRE library used by Safari.

In March 2009, White Wolf Publishing authorized the Exalted Wiki Contribution Contest, where users could come and edit the Official Exalted Wiki, contributing information in a month-long contest to win one of seven copies of an unannounced book signed by Exalted developer John Chambers and Exalted art director Brian Glass.

The contest asked Fetch users how they incorporated Fetch into their lives.

High levels of amateur radio contest activity, and contesters failing to comply with international band plans, can result in friction between contest participants and other amateur radio users of the same radio spectrum.

A contest sponsored by Orlando Magic team officials and the local Orlando Sentinel newspaper allowed the community to suggest names for their new franchise.

* Grammar Ninja ( STOMP ): A contest was held where participants had to take pictures of poor English usage in public places, suggest corrections and post it in the forum according to a different theme each month.

It has been reported that when a book with a similar title to " Never Surrender " or " No Surrender " was published while the film was in production, the producers held a contest for the cast and crew to suggest a new title.

It was Mariano Rapetti, Ricordi record company's director-and father of lyricist Mogol-who suggest them to work together in view of a radio contest.

He has temporarily retired from the Invitational on several occasions, one of which prompted a contest to suggest an Invitational prize sufficient to lure him back.

Sometimes the contest relates to a picture, such as one where entrants suggest what a given cartoon picture or group of pictures might represent.

Post-fight there was initial talk of a rematch, however as the scores suggest the contest for not close enough for this to materialize.

Staff and members of the public were given the opportunity to enter a contest to suggest a new name for the campus.

The name came about when Pierce held a contest, asking his readers to suggest a title for the book.

Shortly afterward, the manufacturer held a nationwide contest to gain ideas to improve school bus safety, with the grand prize to be the award of a new Lifeguard school bus.

But the most respected proponents of Gallican ideas did not contest the Pope's primacy in the Church, merely his supremacy and infallibility.

In 2002, Nintendo and Hypnotic, a film entertainment company, established a filmmaking contest in which contestants submitted ideas that would be later funded into short films if selected.

The contest looked for ideas that evoke the same kind of psychological horror that the game intends to evoke, but the films were not directly based on the Eternal Darkness characters or storyline.

Mitchell Yard, a Shipwright also from South Shields was entrusted with the job of developing the best of all the ideas submitted in the contest, including those of Wouldhave but with the fitting of cork into the bow and stern air cases, and along the gunwale.

It mainly comprises a software competition and programming contest with the collaboration of ACMs NUCES Chapter, Engineering Project Competition with the collaboration of NCS ( NUCES Circuit Society ), Micro Controller Interfacing Competition in collaboration with NUCES Circuit Society, G3n. x gaming competition, Ideas Xtreme ( where students from Grade School display their ideas ), G3n.

Bob Staake ( pronounced " Stack ") illustrates the contest and occasionally suggests contest ideas.

Very little was known about the Czar for some time, except that he worked for the Washington Post coming up with the contest ideas and choosing the winners for every week's contest.

The Institute ’ s national Better Government Competition is a grassroots citizens ’ ideas contest aimed at addressing key challenges to state and local governments.

Since 1991, the Institute has hosted the Better Government Competition, which it describes as an annual citizens ' ideas contest that rewards some of the nation's most innovative public policy proposals.

Pioneer ’ s national citizens ’ ideas contest, the Better Government Competition, was established in 1991 to promote innovations and accountability in government.

Both support and encourage each other to achieve their dreams: Vimmi tries to enter herself in the Miss India contest but gets thrown out after an argument, and Rakesh tries to sell his ideas for an investment scheme, but a businessman turns him away.

Knowing that the fate of the infant Republic was a contest for the minds of Filipinos, Luna turned to journalism to strengthen Filipino minds with the ideas of nationhood and the need to fight a new imperialist enemy.

Events include a parade, Dachshund races, stupid pet tricks, and a dog costume contest.

By the late 1950s, the contest exchange was expanded to include band used.

Other options include initiating a dominance contest ; harboring resentment ; or working to better understand and constructively resolve the issue.

Other events that typically have been held on Moose Dropping Festival weekend include a five-kilometre walk-run — also not a part of the official festival, a Mountain Mother contest, and a parade.

Every year on the last weekend of June, Malvern hosts the Brickfest, an event that fills the city with music, food and activities that include a brick toss, brick car derby, and a best dressed brick contest.

Activities and events include Barbershop chorus, gospel music, good ol ' home cookin, handmade arts and crafts, street dance, frog jumping contest, terrapin derby, greased pig chase, a 4-mile run, parade, jam and jelly bake-off and of course peach and peach cobbler eating contests.

These include or have included: welding, pipe threading and fitting, rod wrenching, various skill tests with a backhoe, and at least as late as 1965 a regular well-pulling contest with local well servicing rigs and crews.

Other annual events include the Spook Parade, a children's costume contest held the day before Halloween, and Santa Claus Day, held the Saturday before Christmas.

The children's games include a decorated bike contest, lollipop scramble, ball on spoon race, leapfrog, wheelbarrow and sack races, and a water balloon toss.

Homecoming festivities include a parade, fireworks, and sandcastle-building contest.

Events include a fishing contest to see who can catch the biggest catfish, a street dance, a square dance, Sunday parades, co-ed volleyball tournament, men's 12-team softball tournament, bean bag tournament, queen contest / variety show, chess tournament, " Kiss the Catfish Contest ," music at the park, a raffle, church services, fire department water ball, and a St. Luke's Lutheran Church-sponsored breakfast.

Events include a tractor pull, demolition derby, tuff truck competition, figure 8 race, horse show, battle of the bands, Miss Moniteau County Queen contest, baby show and a rodeo.

Activities include a beef barbecue, car show, community worship service, kiddie carnival, food court, ice cream social, petting zoo, model airplane show, skydiving exhibition, horseshoe pitching contest, sand volleyball tournament and a 3-on-3 basketball tournament.

Events include the Little Miss Apalachin contest, fireworks and a large parade.

The festivities now include a parade, carnival, car show, poker run, baking contest, and pageant.

Festivities include tours of decorated historic homes, a lighting contest, arts and crafts show, a children's play zone, food vendors, the jingle bell jog, a scavenger hunt, storytelling, tours of the county courthouse and murals, and a pancake breakfast.

Other events include the late-July fly-in at the Shiocton Airport, a privately-owned airport, and the September " Cabbage Chuck " contest sponsored by St. Denis Catholic Church.

Northeastern Brazil is known for a distinctive form of literature called literatura de cordel, which are a type of ballads that include elements incorporated into music as " repentismo ", an improvised lyrical contest on themes suggested by the audience.

Annual Ashton events include the Ashton Cup lip-sync contest, the Ashton Art Show, and a formal ball.

Famous match races include the 1851 match at York between the Epsom Derby winners The Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur ; the 1878 four mile long race in Louisville between the Eastern U. S. colt Ten Broeck and California filly Mollie McCarty that inspired the song Molly and Tenbrooks, the Canadian contest between Man o ' War and Sir Barton in 1920, won by Man O ' War ; Seabiscuit's victory over War Admiral in the 1938 Pimlico Special ; the 1955 race between Nashua and Swaps, the 1966 Pace of the Century between standardbred champs Bret Hanover and Cardigan Bay, and 1975's tragedy-marred contest between colt Foolish Pleasure and filly Ruffian at Belmont Park.

Freshmen proms usually include a popularity contest of some sort, which designates 3 girls and 3 boys as places I, II and III " most popular " as chosen by student vote ; the candidates have to undergo various entertaining challenges, which usually include pair dancing.