Arts And Entertainment

The Get Schooled Foundation has partnered with Def Jam Rapstar, Viacom, and AT&T to help the youngness of America to Get MotivatED. 

The content of the Get MotivatED oppose is to help students meliorate their attending in school. High School students with more than note absences in a edifice assemblage hit exclusive a 19% quantity of graduating. Get Schooled hopes to encourage students to wager the continuance of edifice attending and hit enlisted Def Jam Rapstar to help. 

Students are pleased to move in the Def Jam Rapstar recording oppose for a quantity to be flown to New York City to materialize on BET’s 106 & Park. The enrollee who uploads the prizewinning pink or uttered articulate poem most activity module be declared the winner. The winning rapper/poet module also intend the quantity to foregather Hip-Hop fable writer Simmons and Def Jam Enterprises chief Kevin Liles. Regal Entertainment Group has also donated $5,000 in flick passes to reward students in involved schools who accede a recording to the Def Jam Rapstar recording contest. 

Students between the ages of 13-19 are permitted to move by uploading their videos at GetSchooled.com. The deadline is March 25, 2011. 

The Get MotivatED Challenge module support schools in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, Sacramento and Seattle. 

The edifice that shows the greatest transformation in attending rates over the five-week period, module be recognized with scholarship dollars for students, liberated admittance for every enrollee for digit assemblage to the Official SAT Online Course, a new college-counseling accumulation from the College Board, and a meet to their edifice from a Get Schooled honor Education Ambassador. 

Get Schooled honor Education Ambassador’s include Big Boi from Outkast, Trey Songz, Jessey McCartney, and Terrance J & Rocsi from 106 & Park. 

Visit GetSchooled.com for more information.