Schoolsnet (available on www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk), is promoting the launch of the Civic Art competition for secondary schools, to be run in conjunciton with Honda.

Pupils are invited to express their creativity by producing a drawing or painting, or taking a photograph, inspired by one of three themes: power, space or style.

The competition, to be hosted on the Schoolsnet website, offers prizes that include a Honda people carrier for the schools attended by national winners in each of three age-groups, as well as micro-scooters and Playstations for individual winners.

All secondary school children in the United Kingdom are eligible for the competition.

Entries will be judged in three categories:

Years 7 and 8 (S1 and S2 in Scotland)

Years 9, 10 and 11 (S3, S4 and S5 in Scotland)

Years 12 and 13 (S6 in Scotland)

A panel of judges, made up of Honda and Schoolsnet representatives, will choose the most creative 60 entries from all the artworks submitted.

These will then be displayed on the Schoolsnet website from January 8 to February 28 2001.

Visitors to the site will be able to vote for their favourite work.

The winners - three from each category - will each receive a micro-scooter.

National winners, selected from each category by the panel of judges, will receive a Playstation 2.

The school attended by each of the three national winners will win a Honda people carrier.

Each national winner's class and art teacher will also win a day trip to either Tate Modern, Tate St Ives or Tate Liverpool, whichever is nearest to their school.

All entries must be received by the closing date of December 30 2000.

Only one entry per pupil is allowed.

For full details of the competition and an entry form, visit Schoolsnet link on our site.