[CAUSE] Seeking submissions to CAUSE contests

To help build our collection of resources for instructors and encourage the statistics education community to share their creativity, CAUSE sponsors a number of contests. 1. The CAUSE cartoon caption contest runs monthly with submissions due on the last day of the month. Try your hand and ask your students to create a caption for this month's cartoon at https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/august/2023/submissions 2. The SPARKS collection of very short videos (10 to 20 seconds) encourages entries on an on-going basis. If your video is selected to be added to the SPARKS collection you will be awarded a free registration to the next eCOTS. 3. The Stats+Stories lesson plan contest is now taking submissions. See https://www.causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots24/stats-and-stories ($1000 in prizes and the opportunity to present your lesson plan using Stats+Stories materials at the next eCOTS with entries due by New Year's Day). While you're thinking about Stats+Stories, there's still a few days left to vote in their data visualization contest at https://statsandstories.net/voting 4. The USPROC undergraduate research competition, jointly sponsored by the ASA, is a great way to bring national attention to your students' work and takes entries twice a year (https://www.causeweb.org/usproc/). 5. The A-mu-sing competition seeking edutainment resources runs every-other year with prizes totaling $1000 and the opportunity to present your work at the USCOTS banquet.