The Los Altos Sister Cities organization is sponsoring a competition for best T-shirt design for the Los Altos New Year’s Day 5K Fun Run, Walk and Roll on Jan. 1.

The winning design will be featured on T-shirts sold at the annual downtown Los Altos event, which encourages participation from walkers, runners, skaters, scooters and strollers of all ages.

The contest is open to all elementary students (K-6th grade) in Los Altos. Entries must be received at Santa Rita school (attention Dorothy Dickson) by 3 p.m. Tuesday and should include name and home telephone number. Submissions should be no smaller than 4-by-4 inches and no larger than 7-by-9 inches and must use a maximum of two colors (no shading since it’s hard to reproduce).

The theme is “Sister Cities” and should include the names of Los Altos’ Sister Cities (Bendigo, Australia; Rustington, England; Shih Lin, Taiwan; and Syktyvkar, Russia).

Sister Cities and the city of Los Altos have the right to edit or alter artwork for appropriate content or reproduction purposes.

For more information, call Dorothy Dickson at 559-1604 or e-mail ddickson@santaritaschool.org.