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The Punzabo Award

Family Travel Forum (FTF), the web's leading community for family travelers, hosts a variety of scholarship contests that encourage everyone to share their travel experiences. The Punzabo is FTF's rules-free, u-pick prize, awarded by the travelBIGO community to their favorite travel tale.

Win A Punzabo for Most Popular Travel Journal

travelBIGO's Punzabo award and a cash prize are given to the highest peer-rated travel tale each month. As travelBIGO's version of a "People's Choice" award, it's your chance to show off your stuff, and is open to all ages. All travel tales posted by community members, even if submitted for other scholarships, will be considered for future publication in order to be eligible for a Punzabo award.

Punzabo Prizes

  • Punzabo Certificate of Honor, pinned to your winning story
  • $100 mad money, awarded once per month throughout the year

Punzabo Rules

Eligibility for Travel Journals - Punzabo Award

  • All applicants must sign up for the travelBIGO.com community prior to submitting an article.
  • There is no age requirement, and you can be attending any level of school, be homeschooled, attending college, be unemployed or working, anywhere in the world.
  • Your travel journal can be about any type of trip taken any time, in any format and any language.
  • By submitting your travel tale and images, you have agreed to travelBIGO's Terms of Use.
  • You must keep account information current (see Account Info tab on My Dashboard) so that we can reach winners by email.

Punzabo Submission Requirements
 

  • Journals, travel tales and stories must be submitted online using the New Article submission tool accessed on "My Dashboard." A link to your personal Dashboard can be found in the Login Box. Once you begin a New Article, you'll see that editing tools are provided.
  • Multiple submissions are encouraged because you'll have more chances to win.
  • Your submission must be your original creation.
  • You have a better chance of winning if your entries include text and at least one photo, digital artwork or video as illustration, but there really are no rules.  Except, for technical reasons, your uploaded photos must be under 2Mb in total.

The Punzabo Judging Process
 

Entries will be judged by travelBIGO community members through the site's star rating system. Originality, humor, insight, cool destinations, practical tips and horror stories are very popular.

One Punzabo will be awarded each month throughout the year. Be sure to invite your friends and family to join the travelBIGO community and vote on your story by using the star rating system on each article.

Please note that only winners will be contacted. All winners under age 13 are required to submit a Minors and Parent Consent Form to collect their prize money. 

Please!  We are too busy to answer contest and scholarship questions over the phone; send questions to FTFscholarship@travelbigo.com.

Other Scholarships

If you're between the ages of 13 to 18, you should also check out FTF's Teen Travel Writing Scholarship.

For information about more ways to increase your school or travel spending money, check Other BIGO Prizes for news about seasonal scholarships and contests from our sponsors.