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A tale and a trip
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Who will emerge the winner of the `Start Your Story Contest'?
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Disney channel has named the 10 finalists for the final viewers voting round of Start Your Story Contest presented by Microsoft XP. The first phase had attracted a huge response with entries in excess of 25,000, making it a close fight for the top 10 slot. The finalists have been rewarded with a HP Pavilion Media Centre PC. Vignettes of each of these winners will appear on the Disney channel. The top 10 schools which sent in the maximum number of entries also won an HP Media Centre PC each. Apart from this, the top 100 winners short-listed earlier bagged a Microsoft Encarta CD each along with attractive posters from Disney channel.
Microsoft and Disney channel had come together to offer Indian kids and opportunity to unleash their creativity with this contest in November-December 2005. The 10 winners who will battle it out in the final round are - Shurjo Bannerjee, Shachi Priya Sinha, Sohini Saha and Shreya Sheth from Kolkata, Samruddha Canpadee from Chennai, Aditya Pramod and Vikram Kamath from Bangalore, Mukulika Sisodia from Mumbai, Tanya Ramola and Mayank Makhija from Delhi.
The contest enters the most crucial phase this week where viewers get to exercise their vote for the best entry out of the chosen top 10 stories. The lucky five viewers whose choice matches that of the jury will also win prizes along with the contest winners. The stories are being featured on Disney channel's website www.disneychannelindia.com to be reviewed by the viewers till February 15.
To participate in the contest kids have to log on to channel's website and vote for the best story or sms {lt}STORY{gt} followed by {lt}NAME{gt} of the contestant to 4646.
The writer of the best story chosen by the jury will be the lucky winner of the grand prize — he will be flown to the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, USA for the visit of a lifetime.
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