USS New Jersey SSN 796 Design Contest
The NEW JERSEY Commissioning Committee is organizing a Challenge Coin Design Contest for high school and middle school students in New Jersey.
Each County will select one first place and one second place winner of the design contest and the Commission will select an overall winner of the design to be used on the back side of the souvenir coin which will be available for sale at the commissioning ceremony
The state’s third ship named in its honor, a Submarine, will be commissioned at NWS Earle on April 6. 2024.
The Challenge Coin Design Contest deadline is October 31, 2023. Winners will be selected In November and the first-place design selected and announced December 15. The top prize is a $1000 scholarship and a ticket to the commissioning ceremony at NEW Earle’s waterfront in Leonardo.
Entries will be judged on clarity, creativity, relationship to New Jersey’s military role in history and quality. Design must be able to fit within a two-inch diameter coin and entries are limited to one per person or group of up to three.
A full explanation of the contest and what is required for submission is included in the video which can be accessed at. –
