Legislators are starting the work of drawing new districts. You could win up to $6,000 by drawing your own.

The anti-gerrymandering group All IN for Democracy is holding a contest for the best maps. The group has set up a website with census data and drawing tools, and will award three-thousand dollars for the best redraw of Indiana’s 100 state House districts, with smaller prizes for state Senate and congressional maps.

Legislators are tentatively planning to unveil proposed Indiana and U-S House maps September 14, with a proposed Senate map following a week later. Even before those maps are revealed, Democrats and Common Cause Indiana executive director Julia Vaughn are predicting they’ll be gerrymandered to favor majority Republicans. Vaughn says the hope is that legislators will incorporate some ideas from the citizen maps.

Vaughn says early submissions, and town halls the group conducted earlier this year, have taken differing and sometimes innovative approaches to the idea of “communities of interest” which should be held together, not divided among two or more districts. There’s general agreement on trying to keep cities and counties intact, but Vaughn says some people have argued it’s important to keep school districts in a single legislative district as well. And one proposed map makes a case for the Ohio River as a community of interest, combining the southernmost portions of Republican Congressmen Larry Bucshon, Trey Hollingsworth and Greg Pence’s districts into a single district hugging the river from the Illinois state line to Ohio.

The legislature has posted census data and mapping software on its own website too. The House tentatively plans a hearing on its maps on September 16, with a final House vote on September 23. A Senate hearing is expected September 27, with a vote on October 1. If there are any changes from the House-passed version, the House will have to approve them before sending the maps to Governor Holcomb.