Best Duct Tape Prom Dress Will Win Scholarship

Pick your favorite duct tape prom dress

Yep, it's all duct tape.

Everyone has seen or heard of the duct tape prom dress and tuxedo combo, but did you know that a duct tape prom dress can win the student who made it a scholarship?

In fact, each year Duck brand duct tape chooses a couple to win $3,000 scholarships, and the company gives the school $3,000 as well. This year there are 330 entries, and you can vote for your favorite at http://www.stuckatprom.com/contests/prom/entries.asp.

Scholarship money

Most students use low cost loans to get through college, but there are a lot of scholarships out there to help out as well. The duct tape prom dress and tuxedo contest will help six high school students pay for college.

The winners of the duct tape prom dress/tux contest get $3,000 each toward their college tuition. Second-place winners get $2,000 and third place get $1,000. The contest winners’ schools get the same amount in each case that the winners get.

Too late for your duct tape prom dress

If you haven’t already entered the contest, unfortunately it is too late for this year. However, voting is open until Thursday, so you could help a couple of lucky high school students win the scholarships.

Clearly, Duck brand duct tape has turned this contest into a gold mine. The contest has been around since 2001. Entries are judged on several criteria, and a small percentage of the entrants’ scores is based on the quantity of duct tape used.

No laughing matter

The duct tape prom dresses and tuxedos in this contest are extremely elaborate. If you go to the contest web site, you can check out all of this year’s entries as well as the entries from years past.

If you go back to 2001, you’ll see a lot of gray and silver in the entries from the good ole days. As time went on, though, duct tape prom dresses and tuxes got increasingly colorful, elaborate and complicated. Some of the contest entrants this year used 18 different colors of duct tape.

Creative kids

Some of the entries for this year’s duct tape prom dress contest include Mother Nature and Father Time, a pair of matching dresses based on 1950s films, matching fluorescent outfits, the Queen of Hearts and Ace of Spades and plenty of other crazy, colorful outfits.

Of course, everyone knows prom attire doesn’t stop at clothing. These kids make handbags, corsages and jewelry out of duct tape and cover their shoes with it, too.

Check out your friends

You can see all of the duct tape prom dress contest entries as well as the contenders from past years at StuckatProm.com. You can even arrange contest entries by state so you can see what creative costumes boys and girls near you have created.

If you’ve got kids and want to get some financial help putting them through college, you might want to start dreaming up a duct tape prom dress, tuxedo or other formal wear now. These creations look like they took a lot of work and planning.