PYM Design and Win Contest

Design & Win Contest

Calling all artists, dancers, singers, and actors! Be creative for a cause and help us spread the message: "Self Exams Save Lives"

Contest Overview

The Goal

Create awareness about the 5-minute self-exam. Use your art to warn mothers about early signs like lumps.

Prizes

Submissions receive a Certificate for Community Work (highly valued for US/UK college applications) and a chance for prizes.

Design and Win Contest Rules

Topic: Art about why you love your mom and don't wan't to lose her to breast cancer, and how a simple five minute self exam can be very effective
Any media: Posters, skits, dances, jingles, short films, or slogans—anything that creates awareness is welcome.
Unlimited Entries: You may send as many entries as you like.
Submission: Email your entries to [email protected].
Copyright: Entries must be original and will become the property of 'Protect Your Mom'. Anything that uses copyrighted material will be rejected
Judging: Winners are determined by a combination of social media "likes" and an independent panel of judges.

Submission Categories

Visual Art Posters, Logos, Taglines

Performance Skits, Dance, Short Films

Music Jingles, Lyrics, Songs

Writing Slogans, Short Stories

PYM Trophy

We invite entries for the PYM Trophy for Community Service for the School/University/Individual who does the most to create awareness. Organise your event in your School/University and email the pictures and videos to us from anywhere in the world

Organize a Signature PYM Event - feel free to use the PYM Speech, dances, songs, or videos from the gallery. Other ideas include - forming a pink ribbon, organizing a pink glove dance or have students hold the PYM pledge ("I pledge to make my mom do a self exam")

Make sure you call it a Protect Your Mom Campaign event and use our logo

Make An Impact

Breast cancer only gets a lot of media attention in the month of October, even though cancer kills thousands of people year round. Early detection is instrumental in saving lives - survival rates go up to 98% if caught early. In this era of social media and easy information access, it is especially easy to disseminate information about early warning signs.

PYM was started on Facebook to do exactly that. People tend to think that breast cancer is something that happens only to others, that it is hereditary, that only older people get it. Yet everyone knows someone who's had cancer. It is time we fought back.
PYM aims to do that primarily through the PYM Design and Win contest. Since mothers are usually too busy to worry about their health, the campaign targets children for 3 reasons.
1. They grow up to be more informed adults
2. They can use their pester power to make their moms do a self exam/mammogram
3. They are usually on social media and could be reached at zero cost.

The entries for 2012 included skits, dances, videos and posters which can be viewed on our facebook page. 20 year old Mahesh Raghavan’s video won 2 tickets to Europe in 2011. Avon presented gift hampers and certificates to all 32 participants. We received over 95 videos and posters in 2012. 8 year old Aaditya won the contest. We distributed prizes worth Dh 12000 in 2013 from Borders, AVON, Etihad Airways and Imation.

Although it is a zero cost campaign, PYM is making a big impact, and is one of the nominees for the 2012 ADCB Emirates Woman Awards. In this age of information technology no one should lose their mom just because she ignored the early signs of breast cancer. I invite the students of the world to unite for this cause. So tweet/BBM and FB about PYM Design and win contest and the Protect Your Mom Campaign. Be creative for a cause! We would love to hear from you