They actually did that for me in high school in California. I received $1000 each year from the state for 2000 to 2002 (which was the last year of the program). It was incentive enough to care about the tests.

i searched for own band and was suprised it was able to pull up a lot of information. however it says one of my songs appears on a compilation when it does not (none of the song titles are the same either, so it's unlikely they stole my music).