Write a Passion Piece about your favorite Solana project or community

PASSION is a Valentines Day themed - 2 category - Content sprint that aims to give participants a chance to share the passion they have for the projects, communities and Ecosystem we all love.

*You must be a member of Solana Collective to participate in this sprint. (All submitters will be required to provide their Discord username. See member join instructions at bottom)

Passion Piece

Write a “passion piece” about your favorite project or community on Solana. This can even be about Solana itself. Whatever you choose to write about in our ecosystem, make sure you have a REAL passion for.

Tell us why you love it, what about it has you struck? What about it makes you stay engaged and participating? What about it drives your PASSION? Tell us all about the project you love.
Go deep.
Be creative.
Spill your heart out. 

We want to FEEL your passion.

Judging Criteria

We will be judging submissions based on creativity, uniqueness, quality/ non lazy written content and we will be making sure that all submissions follow the rules outlined in “Submission Requirements”.

SCOPE 

Written - (Content piece must be more than 750 Words)

*Failing to follow the length requirement will result in automatic disqualification

PRIZES

• 1st - 750 USDC

• 2nd - 500 USDC

• 3rd - 250 USDC

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Submission Requirements

• All pieces must be posted to X on February 14th. No sooner. No later.  We will be looking for a post date of February 14th (Valentines day) or it will be ineligible. (MEANING: Don't submit on Earn until or After Valentines Day)

  
  

• Content piece must be new. (Do not submit a piece of content that you have previously published)

• Content piece can be created on any platform, but it must be posted/linked on X (Remember to title your X post and introduce your content. Quality content posts are something we will be looking for while judging!)

• Content piece must be an original work. *If we suspect you of using AI to create the whole or majority of your piece it will be considered cheating and therefore be disqualified.

 AI is useful to generate ideas or even help create small aspects of your total creation. If you use AI, use the 15/85 rule. 15% AI -  85% original work.

• No Plagiarism 
  

  
  

• Content piece must follow the content length rules or it will be disqualified
  

  
  

• Multiple submissions are allowed - please see the Multiple-submission instructions below.

• Each submission must be about a single project/community. If you want to write about multiple projects/communities - multiple submissions are required - this means more then one X post.
  

  
  

• Post X link to your content piece in the Member Content channel after you Submit.
  

  
  

• You must be a member of Solana Collective to compete in this sprint.
  

💖 Submissions Open February 14th and will close February 17th 12:00 A.M. PST/ UTC -7(to give you time to get it submitted)

Multiple Submission Instructions

• Open and make a copy of the Multiple Submission doc then fill it out.

• Google doc will ask for the links to your X post.

• You will submit the link to your completed doc on Earn.
   

Multi-Submission Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XGtu4egqA5LwLjzB1aLv1eq7fuwvb7RMdtET5kxOmh8/edit?usp=sharing 

Become a Member to participate

Join our discord and head over to the Bootcamp channel to become an official member. Solana Collective Discord:  https://t.co/jvOEMIhCkq 

If you have any questions about this Sprint join our discord or send us a message on X. Good Luck!