Submit Your TYCA Entry
Submitting Your Entries
Online submissions are required using the forms linked below.
For Animation, Book Trailers, Digital Compositions, Multimedia Presentations, and Video Recordings categories we suggest using YouTube links. For Black and White Photography, Color Photography, Graphic Design, Web Design, and Coding Games please use a shareable link (for example, a Dropbox link).
Please click on the hyperlinked category buttons below to submit your entries. Please include the names of projects and students when sending payment.
- Animation
- Black & White Photography
- Book Trailers
- Coding & Games
- Color Photography
- Digital Music Composition
- Graphic Design
- Multimedia Presentation
- Video Recording
- Web Design
You will need to submit a separate form for each entry, listing only the student or students that worked on that particular project.
Entry Fee
These nominal fees help defray the costs of awards and prizes.
- There is a minimum entry fee of $10 per entry.
- The cost of an individual entry is $10.
- The cost of a group entry depends on the number of students in the group:
- For a single entry by 2-10 students, the fee is $10.
- For a single entry by 11-20 students, the fee is $20.
- For a single entry by 21-30 students, the fee is $30.
These nominal fees help defray the costs of awards and prizes.
- Please fill out, print, and include this document listing all submissions for which a payment is being made. Submissions will not be judged until entry fees have been received. Please make checks payable to Texas Library Association.
Mail entry lists and fees to:
Texas Youth Creators Awards
Texas Library Association
3420 Executive Center Dr., Ste. 301
Austin, TX 78731
Entry Deadline: All materials must be submitted or postmarked by January 31, 2025.
Copyright
- All entries must adhere to copyright law. Refer to the following sources if you are unfamiliar with copyright as it applies to K-12:Educational CyberPlayground’s Copyright ResourcesCopyright With CyberBeeBecause copyright exemptions may not apply to public performances in the same way that they apply to classroom use, the Texas Library Association reserves the right not to show an entry during the awards ceremony based on a reasonable belief that showing the entry may infringe the copyright laws of the U. S. or any other country.Please note:
- You no longer have to include Student Work Release Forms or Copyright and Sponsor Certification Forms with the entries. However, the Texas Youth Creators Awards Committee assumes that the sponsoring librarian has on record a Work Release Form and a Copyright Certification Form signed by both the student and the parent/guardian.
Judging and Awards
Qualified, impartial volunteers will serve as judges. The judges base their decisions on the criteria listed for each contest division. Judges will not evaluate contest divisions in which they may have assisted students with entry production. Awards may be given for first place, second place, third place, and honorable mention. At the discretion of the judges, awards may not be presented for every place in a contest division.
Each participant in a winning entry created by an individual or small group will receive an award ribbon. Classes that submit one entry will receive one award ribbon and certificate for the classroom, as well as individual certificates for each participant in the class. The most outstanding entry over all earns the Bob Bennett “Best of Show” Award.
Awards will be presented at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference. Winners will be contacted by the end of March 2025. The Awards will be presented at the TLA Annual Conference in Dallas in April 2025.
In accordance with United States copyright laws, some projects may not be eligible to be shown publicly during the awards ceremony.
The decisions of the judges and the Texas Youth Creators Awards Committee are final.