Vision Petron, the award-winning national student art competition of industry leader Petron Corporation is now calling for entries for its 13th iteration, with the theme Lakbay Tagumpay—A Journey of Triumphs and Milestones.

This year Vision Petron continues the road to rediscovery by celebrating our individual triumphs and historical victories. We dwell deeper into the Filipino psyche and focus on what defines us through our sense of achievement; how these fulfill us and make us proud and strive even harder through lessons learned in life. Examples for Lakbay Tagumpay could evolve around goals and beliefs in life. Values of determination, discipline, love for one’s work, patience, sacrifice for the greater good are related to one’s success in life.

Vision Petron is a partnership between Petron Corporation and the youth, both sharing a common advocacy of preserving Philippine art and culture, values, traditions and skills. It is open to all talented students enrolled in a regular university or college course, or in tutorial art and photography classes.  Participants must be Filipino and ages 16-28 years old. Student artists may compete in four categories:  Painting (oil and water-based media), colored photography, t-shirt art design, and video-making.

Entries for the painting categories (oil and water-based media) should be no bigger than 4ft x 4ft unframed. Colored photography entries should be 8.5 x 11 inches to 10 x 15 inches unframed, taken after 30 April 2013. T-shirt art design entries must be executed on a white, round-neck short-sleeved t-shirt.

Video-making is a new competition category and is open to individual students or a group with up to 3 members. Entries must be up to 3-minutes in length, and produced and edited exclusively by the entrants.

Prizes for the various categories are as follows: Painting—P50,000 each for six grand prize winners; P20,000 each for six runners-up; and P5,000 each for 18 semi-finalists.  Photography—P30,000 each for six grand prize winners and P15,ooo each for six runners-up. T-shirt art design—P30,000 each for three grand prize winners and P5,000 each for nine semifinalists. Vide0-making—P30,000 per entry for three grand prize winners. All Grand Prize winners will get trophies and plaques made by National Artist Napoleon V. Abueva. Schools of the Grand Prize winners will also get special prizes from Petron.

Application forms may be downloaded from the website: www.visionpetron.com and at the Vision Petron Facebook page. These must be signed by the participant’s college or university dean or the art teacher of a tutorial to confirm the entrant’s current enrollment.

Deadline for submission of entries is 09 August 2013 at Petron bulk plants nationwide or 16 August 2013 at the Vision Petron Project Secretariat located at Studio 5 Designs, 28 Paseo de Roxas cor Jupiter St., Bel-Air Village, Makati City. If submitting by courier, the entry must be sent to the secretariat's address and postmarked 09 August 2013.

Winners will be notified personally or through a phone call—and not by any other means—by the Vision Petron Secretariat.