DeKalb Area Retirement Center-Oak Crest is sponsoring an essay contest for students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades.

The topic for the 2013 essay contest is “What’s for Lunch?” Writers should consider the choices they make, whether those choices are good or bad and why the ability to tell the difference matters to the writer and their future.

Organization, sentence structure, grammar, spelling and punctuation will be considered, as will original content and neatness. Essays should be between 750 and 1,000 words in length. The entry period opens Jan. 14 and ends Feb. 8.