Travis J. Wilson President, National Honor Society Glendale, California

I put door-hangers with my name on them on every door.

Crystal Pendleton Freshman Class President Fort Valley, Georgia

I hung signs from the ceiling, kinda like the signs hanging from overpasses... The first one said "vote," the second said "for," and the third said "Emily." Everyone told me they really liked them.

Emily Hartman Voter Broadlands, Illinois

We wrote with sidewalk chalk all over campus in huge letters a couple of times.

Emiley L. Erb Voter Chesapeake, Virginia

The morning of the election, I got to school at 6:00 am armed with 206 strips of paper with my name on each piece. Every kid who would be voting that day had my name taped to their locker when they got to school that morning. My name was literally everywhere. (Double-sided tape is definitely recommended for this). I won the election by ten votes and am convinced that this last attempt won me the election.

Jessica Eule Vice President of Senior Class Parsippany, New Jersey

I bought a huge roll of white paper from an art supply store, and put big pieces of it down on my parents' front driveway (over spread-out newspapers), held down in the corners by rocks. Then I put a stencil I had made, which simply said "Lieberman for Vice" in big fancy letters, over them and spraypainted through the stencil. Instead of using only one color, though, I used different colors on each poster, with varied stripes and dots. They came out beautifully, each one was unique, and they were easy (and fun) to do. On the day of my speech, I wore a white t-shirt on which I had spraypainted the same thing through the stencil, so people who didn't know me could visually put together the posters and me.

Bill Lieberman Student Council Vice President Youngstown, Ohio

Our student body President during our Senior year wrote up this little "Toilet Talk" paper and put it in the stalls of the bathrooms! It had a list of things that were happening at our school that week, and at the bottom it asked us to vote for him!

Nicole Jaillet Drama Club President Reno, Nevada

Write a letter. Address it to the students. Introduce yourself, tell why you are running, what you'd like to accomplish, and any information that you'd be likely to include in your speech. Make the content colorful and bright. It allows people to get to know you before you give your speech, if they don't already know you. Print it in a nice computer font, on colored paper -- then paste a copy of it on a bigger poster board.

Cecilia Cava Voter Salinas, California

Put your posters in great places. At the end of lunch lines are cool or maybe on the flag pole. Some place where people will notice.

Maynard James Keenan Middle School President Bedford, Massachusetts

My Sophomore year, there were three candidates named Grote, Berta, and Gray that ran "together" by having their names on the same posters and by supporting each other when they went up to give their speeches. They would take a sign from the school, such as "No street shoes on the gym floor" and place their own sign beside it, "Grote, Berta, and Gray don't wear street shoes on the gym floor." They put a sign up by all the Spanish classes that said, "Grote, Berta, y Gray son candidatos buenisimos." They had a sign in the Science building that said, "Grote, Berta, and Gray are a homogenous mixture."

Leanne Suber Voter Newnan, Georgia

A friend of mine and I, when we were both running for class office, together made blatantly cheesy campaign signs. My name is Pete, his name is Paul. So we wrote, "Peter, Paul, and.... YOU!!," and superimposed it on a picture we took before the homecoming dance last year when we were both dressed up. It was one of those "he's my bud and we're in suits" sort of pictures, which looked political yet hammy. Plain and simple: gratuitous humor and nonsense wins high school elections.

Pete Gerharz Senior Class Vice President Lombard, Ilinois

There was this huge sign with a (real) boombox on it, playing music. So everyone wanted to know where this music was coming from, so their eyes were drawn to the sign. And sure enough, the creators of that advertisement are now the President and Vice-President of Student Senate. It worked for them!!

Kris Van Ness Voter Hudson, Wisconsin

Someone put mirrors (actually, reflecting stickers) on posters with the caption, "Look who's voting for John Doe for Treasurer!"

Nicki Flax Voter Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

My slogan was "pick a winner" and I drew pictures of people picking their noses or their "wedgies."

Maggie Graham Sophomore Class Officer Louisville, Kentucky

Some ideas I've seen: the candidate's face on (1) a dollar bill (2) Uncle Sam (3) a muscleman (4) an actor/actress (5) the President of the United States.

Andy Beall Voter Worthington, Ohio

Two things to STAY AWAY FROM are the completely overused "K-I-M-B-E-R-L-Y: K is for Kindness, I is for Intelligence, M is for Maturity," etc. and "The recipe for a good class president: 1 cup of experience, 3 tablespoons of enthusiasm, a dash of energy," etc. These are so cutesy-annoying! Make your posters resemble your personality. Is that the kind of person you want to be seen as?

Kelli Hart Voter Houston, Texas

This one guy I ran against used his computer to put his head on President Clinton's body for flyers... Everybody loved it (of course, this was before the Clinton scandals...)

Michelle Quigley Class President Rockford, Illinois

I went to an all-male, Catholic, college preparatory school, and of course it was full of testosterone and raging hormones, so when I found myself falling behind in the polls, I made a stop at one of my favorite restaurants. Maybe you've heard of it, Hooters. Anyway, I took my camera to dinner with me that night, and half-way through the meal I told my waitress that it was my birthday, and I asked if I could get a picture taken with all of the waitresses to help remember this special occasion. Being the gracious person she was, she complied. I then took the picture to Kinko's, had several dozen enlarged copies made, and then posted them all around school advertising that if I were to be elected, then these beautiful babes would be the new lunch ladies. It was a long-shot, but it worked. My popularity shot through the roof in less than a week, and two weeks after that I was elected. Everyone knew I was lying, but they liked my attempt enough to vote for me.

Michael Popich Student Council President Columbus, Ohio

In one poster, I had a picture of a dorky guy who was stressing out. Next to this picture, I placed a picture of Quentin Tarantino with a girl on either arm. Over the dorky guy, I wrote "Before voting for Josh Stern." Over Tarantino I wrote "After voting for Josh Stern."

Joshua Stern Senior Class President Poughkeepsie, New York

One funny campaign poster read, "Vote for Mike and Marc, We're Just Two Regular Guys." Even though that was about three years ago, it stuck out in my mind over the years, because the picture of them was the two of them in a photo booth, picking their noses!!!

Theresa Pergola Voter Valley Stream, New York

A friend of mine put up posters saying something about the election. But, at the bottom of each one, he had a little thing saying, "paid for by the little old lady across the street" and other funny "paid for by" inside jokes. People talked about them and since no one cared about what the candidates stood for, people voted for him because he had funny posters...

Mike Tokarz Class Vice President Raynham. Massachusetts

One year this guy's campaign posters were "Ten Ways Student Council is like Sesame Street," one year it was "Ten Ways Student Council is like Baywatch" (both have great bodies, etc.), and once it was "Ten Ways Student Council is like My Awful Haircut." People looked forward to these unabashedly corny analogies, and I think the humor was what got him elected 3 years in a row.

Cynthia Kinnan Voter Golden, Colorado

One thing I saw that was really good was two people running together who got t-shirts made for about 15 bucks with both of their pictures and a slogan on back, which they wore the entire week before elections. It was a crack up.

John "Lo" Davis Voter Huntington Beach, California

One year I was running for Treasurer and I bought a bunch of play money, made copies of my picture to paste on the bills, and then pinned them on old hats. I brought the hats to school every day during election week and asked my friends and some of my teachers to wear them.

Daniel Colton Student Body President Scottsdale, Arizona