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"Former Pretty Amazing judge,  Emma Roberts, is this year&amp;#039;s Vans Custom Culture Celebrity Ambassador! Vans Custom Culture is a nationwide art contest, where teens across the country compete to design shoes and win $50,000 for their high school&amp;#039;s art program. The contest is meant to inspire creativity among students and shed light on the decreasing budgets for schools&amp;#039; art programs. Sounds awesome, right? So, get involved! From Jan. 2 to Feb. 11, you can register your school at vans.com/customculture. If yours is one of the first 1,500 schools to sign up, you&amp;#039;ll will receive four pairs of Vans to design! Each pair must fit one of the four themes: Action Sports, Music, Art, and Local Flavor. Once you&amp;#039;re done designing some amazing kicks, submit a photo to the Vans website. Vans will then select 50 semi-finalists, whose shoes will be featured on the website for public voting. After the public vote, the top five schools will travel to New York City and showcase their designs for a team of celebrity judges in June 2013 for a chance to win $50,000 towards their school&amp;#039;s art program! The four runners up will still receive $4,000 for their art programs, plus the school with the best &amp;quot;Local Flavor&amp;quot; themed shoes will win $10,000. P.S. How adorable are the pair of Vans that Emma designed?! We love them. Celebs like Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port also designed shoes to show their support! What do you think of Emma&amp;#039;s design? Are you entering the contest? Tell us in the comments below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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