I worked as a secretary for a high school/vocational school, and I was in charge of coordinating a periodic literary contest. One thing that bothered me when I took it over was the fact that no one ever got to read the winning entries. So I got a binder and some document protectors and made a book that displayed the first, second and third place entries. I would copy them onto designed paper - one had a beautiful mountain landscape picture - and put them in the binder. It sat on a general table and students would come in and look through it while they waited to see my boss or while they were having "study hall" in my office.

What was satisfying about all of this was listening to the students talk about the winning entries - almost always favorably - and then talk about entering the next one when it came around. Putting the entries on display created the interest in the contest that my boss had been hoping for because it gave the students something to aspire toward, which really got their creative energies going.

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