2023 marks the 8th year of Westcoast Dental’s Smile Art Contest painting competition. The Smile Art Contest has become an educational playground warmly welcoming children aged 12 and under who eagerly await the contest each year! Westcoast is delighted that through this competition, children can develop their artistic talents while learning more about early dental health protection.

Continuing in the success of our previous seasons, Smile Art Contest 2023 is now officially launching with the theme: “ADVENTURE TO WESTCOAST SAFARI”.

This year, Westcoast’s message to children is:

“Become an adorable tooth character — a zoologist on a mission to help improve dental health for animals in Westcoast Safari! Draw your adventure now!"

+This forest exists in your imagination and dreams—it is where all your favorite animals live together happily, harmoniously, and united. They could be cute puppies and kittens or wild animals such as tigers, lions and leopards; or even extinct animals such as dinosaurs and mammoths!

+As a zoologist, what will you do to help your animal friends learn how to take care of and protect their teeth, helping them to preserve their confident, strong and healthy smiles? For example—would you help the animals get dental check-ups, fill in their cavities, extract rotten teeth or straighten crooked teeth? Would you teach them to brush their teeth, use dental floss, give them advice on which good and bad foods to eat?

Children aged 12 and below living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Children will need to be supervised by their parents, relatives or teachers and follow the steps below:

● Step 1: Take a high-resolution image of your child’s artwork

● Step 2: Describe the artwork in detail:
    ○ Full name and DOB of the child   
    ○ Name of school/art center or parent’s name and phone number
    ○ Name and meaning of the artwork. Please add a short description (300 words max.) to express your child’s feelings about the artwork.

● Step 3: Access and like the Westcoast International Dental Clinic Fanpage to connect with our team and enter the contest. Send the photo and above information via email to marketing@westcoastinternational.com or by messaging the Westcoast International Dental Clinic Fanpage

● Step 4: Share your child’s contest entries from Westcoast Fanpage with the two hashtags #SAC2023 and #nhakhoaWestcoast. We will post the contest entry publicly on Westcoast's fanpage.

The final result:

The 15 contestants who make it to the final round will participate in a live drawing competition at the organizing committee’s location in Ho Chi Minh City to find the most outstanding young talent of 2023.

Rules:

• The final round and the award ceremony will be held in Ho Chi Minh City.
• The duration of the final round is 90-120 minutes.
• The theme of the competition is a secret and will be sealed before the competition begins.
• Each contestant will be provided with basic drawing tools and a “Secret Ingredient Box” by the organizing committee to create their work.

Round 1: from May 8th – June 11th

Deadline for contest entries is until June 11th, 2023.

After the submission deadline, the Organizing Committee will select 15 contest entries with the highest scores from the Judges’ Panel to proceed to Round 2—the final ranking round.

Round 2 (Final round): from June 12th – June 25th.

From June 12th – June 14th, the 15 contest entries selected by the Organizing Committee  to proceed to the final round will submit their official drawings to the committee.

From June 12th – June 15th, the Organizing Committee will send invitations to attend the final round of the competition and the award ceremony to schools, activity centers, parents of students and children who have entered the final round.

 On June 25th, 2023, The final round of the competition and the announcement of the final results will be held at Ho Chi Minh City.

A weekly prize will be awarded to winning artworks based on the evaluation of the judging panel as well as the volume of interaction of entries posted within that week.

If your child submits an artwork to the contest early, that artwork will have more chances to receive the weekly prize.

Entries that were winners in a previous week cannot be considered for competition during the following weeks.

All entries have a chance to be considered for the top 15 and compete for final round

Scoring criteria:

The artwork will be evaluated based on a 3-point scale:

• Correct theme (50% of total points): accurately reflects the title and message of the Smile Art Contest 2023 program.
• Artistic value (30% of total points): creative ideas, beautiful color schemes, clear layouts, and new materials.
• Humanistic value (20% of total points): the title and description of the submitted artwork convey positive inspiration to others.

All results will also be based on a consideration of the various ages of the children.

Note: Final round results will be solely based only on the evaluation of the judging panel

• Each contestant can submit more than one entry, but a maximum of one entry per week. The judges will choose the best entry to evaluate for the final round.
• Contestants have many ways to express their ideas through various materials such as crayons, colored pencils, pastels, watercolors, colored chalk, oil paint, etc. The creative material is not limited to sculpture, 3D art, or digital drawing—all are accepted.
• Contest entries must be at least A4 size or larger.
• Any copying behavior will be removed by the organizers. Entries must comply with all the regulations of the organizers and be created by the child, never having won awards in other contests.
• All entries must be submitted to the organizers by June 11, 2023. The organizers will not accept any entries submitted after the deadline.
• The organizers will contact schools, teachers, and parents if the child’s work advances to the final round after Round 1.
• The top 4 out of 15 contestants with the highest scores from the judges will receive the highest awards of the contest this year.
• All contest entries will be retained by the organizers. The organizers have the right to use the entries and information as well as images of the contestants to promote on various media without paying any fees.
• The organizers have the right to cancel the qualification to participate in the contest without prior notice if they discover fraudulent personal information, non-authentic entries, violations of the organizers’ regulations, violations of Vietnamese culture/law, or content related to political factors.
• In case of disputes or complaints related to the contest, the final decision belongs to the organizers.