Attention middle and high schoolers: Carmel Authors & Ideas wants you

Deadline for students and teachers to sign up for Students day of the 2012 Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival is May 18, so hurry up!

Since 2008, Student Days at the Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival has brought local students to higher order thinking in a broad array of ideas through interaction with award winning authors and highly accomplished individuals.

This year, the event will be held on September 27 and 28.

Past presenters have included Justice of the Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; former Secretary of State and Stanford University Professor Condoleezza Rice; Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner," "A Thousand Splendid Suns;" Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist; Frank Portman, author of "King Dork;" Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and historian; John Grogan, author of "Marley & Me;" and dozens of other highly accomplished and inspirational people.

For more information on the festival, click here.

To receive a registration packet, contact Ron Eastwood at eastwood@monterey.k12.ca.us or  755-0396.