Kids for the Cure®

Kids T-shirt contest sponsored by

The Arkansas Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure is hosting a T-shirt design contest to kick off our new Kids for the Cure^® program in this year’s Arkansas Race for the Cure in downtown Little Rock on October 17, 2009. Kids will have the opportunity to register for the Race as a Kids for the Cure^® participant.

The Arkansas Affiliate invites children 12 and under to submit an original drawing for our first ever Kids for the Cure^® T-shirt. The winning artwork will be used as the signature design on the 3,000 T-shirts ordered for this program.

The rules for the competition are:

• Artwork must be submitted on 8 ½” x 11” white paper or cardstock and mailed flat (folded paper cannot be formatted for T-shirt printing) to Komen Race for the Cure, 904 Autumn Road, Ste 500, Little Rock, AR 72211, by Monday, June 15.


• Incorporating the theme of this year’s Race: “It’s MY RACE to win” is suggested.


• Design should incorporate the Komen pink ribbon somewhere in the art. (Take note of the ribbon in the Susan G. Komen for the Cure logo at the top of the right hand column of this blog.)


• Only markers should be used in the artworks. Do not use crayons or colored pencils, as they do not transfer well onto T-shirts.

On the back of the artwork, please include the following in pencil:

• Designer’s Name and Age


• Name of school


• Year in school


• Home address


• Parent or Guardian’s name


• Contact telephone number and email address

By submitting a design, the designer and the designer’s parent or guardian consent to the entries becoming the property of Susan G. Komen for the Cure^® and agree to the entry being used for promotional purposes. Entries will not be returned.

The winners and their parents or guardians will be asked to attend the 2K Family Walk on October 17, 2009, as part of the Race Festivities.

The entries will be judged by a panel of judges based upon creativity, neatness and the overall spirit of the Race for the Cure^®. The judges’ decision is final.

Funds from the Race for the Cure^® are used to help eliminate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease and are used for education, screening, treatment and research programs.


More on this new program later. With this deadline quickly approaching, I wanted to get this information to you as quickly as possible. It can also be found on the Komen Arkansas website.

Jill