The eSchool News 'Empowered Education’ Video Awards

Entries must be submitted on DVD.

RULES & REGULATIONS

1. To enter, please mail 2 copies of your video submission on seperate DVDs, which must be clearly labeled with the Educator Sponsor's name, title, organization, mailing address, telephone number, and eMail address along with your completed Official Student Entry Form to the following address:

"Empowered Education Awards"
eSchool News
7920 Norfolk Ave.
Suite 900
Bethesda MD 20814
Attention: Gregg Downey

Where more than one student has been involved in the creation of the video submission: (A) one and only one student must be designated as the team representative, (B) all involved creators must sign a copyright release form, (C) the video producer who will represent the team must complete a separate Official Entry Form and such form must accompany the video submission. All team members may be acknowledged, but the representative alone will be eligible for expenses-paid travel to Washington, D.C.

ALL STUDENT APPLICATIONS MUST BE AUTHORIZED BY AN EDUCATOR SPONSOR FROM THE STUDENT’S SCHOOL, DISTRICT, OR COLLEGE; FOR A STUDENT UNDER AGE 18, THE EDUCATOR SPONSOR MUST AGREE TO SERVE AS CHAPERONE IN THE EVENT THE STUDENT’S SUBMISSION IS SELECTED FOR AN AWARD.

For the purpose of these Rules & Regulations, each properly labeled video submission accompanied by all applicable completed Official Entry Forms shall be considered an entry.

2. To be eligible, your video submission must involve a Video News Report suitable for student viewing on the topic “How Technology Helped Me Learn.” Maximum running time for each entry is five (5) minutes in length. All entries must be received no later than Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time.

3. Only one entry may be submitted per student, either as an individual or as part of a team effort, and each video submission must have its own entry form (or forms, in the case of a team effort). eSchool News is not responsible for entries which are delayed, lost, misdirected, incomplete, damaged, or destroyed. Any entry that is tampered with, unreadable, or mutilated will be null and void.

SEND eSN 2 DUPLICATE COPIES OF YOUR VIDEO - DO NOT SEND THE ONLY COPY.

No entries will be returned. All winning entries become the sole property of eSchool News.

4. Prizes may be awarded to the schools or colleges associated with winning entries. Each individual or team member involved in the creation of a winning entry--and, in the case of those individuals or team members who have not yet reached the age of majority, his/her parent or legal guardian--will be required to sign a standard declaration and release form confirming compliance with the contest rules, and acceptance of any prize that may be awarded and assigning all right, title, and interest in the entry to eSchool News within seven days of being notified that his/her entry has been selected. Each must also certify that the winning video submission is original to the selected entrant or entrants and that eSchool News has an unrestricted right to use it for any purposes.

5. Entries will be judged by a panel of experts chosen by eSchool News. The decisions of the judges on all matters relating to the contest are final. Judging will take place on or about May 12, 2008, and each individual or team member who submitted a winning entry will be notified in person, by telephone, eMail, and/or mail that his/her entry has won, and of the procedure to follow to signify acceptance of the award by May 16, 2008. If eSchool News is unable to contact the Educator-Sponsor within the notification period, or if an individual or one or more team members declines the prize, the prize may be forfeited and awarded to another entry in accordance with these contest rules. If eSchool News does not receive entries of sufficient quality, eSchool News reserves the right not to award any or all of the prizes.

6. Individual or team members who produce winning entries must be in Washington, D.C., for the Empowered Education Awards ceremony on or about Sept. 22, 2008. Winners and adult sponsors are responsible for their own travel and housing arrangements, but one authorized student and one authorized adult will be reimbursed for economical, related travel expenses. Individuals under the age of majority, must be accompanied by a parent, guardian, and/or educator sponsor who assumes all responsibility for supervising under-age individuals. Other than those reasonable expenses directly associated with travel to and from the awards ceremony, all costs and liabilities must be borne by the individual winners and/or their adult sponsors. eSchool News and event sponsors will assume no responsibility for individuals participating in the awards program.

7. This contest is open to elementary school, junior/middle school, high school, junior college/senior college students resident within the United States, except for employees of eSchool News as well as members of such employees' immediate families and all persons residing in such employees' households. If a selected entrant has not reached the age of majority, eSchool News will require his or her parent(s)' or legal guardian(s)' authorization before permitting the entrant to participate in the awards program.

8. Your video submission must be entirely your (or in the case of a team effort, your team's) own original creation and must not infringe upon or violate any laws or any rights of any third parties, including, but not limited to, such violations as infringement of copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary or property right, libel, defamation, violation of rights of privacy, publicity, personality, or celebrity, or any contract right, or any other right of any individual, corporation or other entity. Entrants must obtain all necessary permissions, licenses, clearances, releases, waivers of moral rights, and other approvals from third parties (including but not limited to all copyright holders and all individuals appearing in the video submission), necessary to use the video submission, in whole or in part, in any way, including without limitation, to reproduce, make derivatives, edit, modify, translate, distribute, transmit, publish, license, and broadcast the video submission worldwide, by any means. Any and all such permissions, licenses, clearances, releases, waivers of moral rights, and approvals must be provided to eSchool News upon its request.

9. By entering this contest, each entrant--with the consent of a parent or guardian in the case of students under 18 years of age--consents to the use, reproduction, publication, transmission and/or broadcasting of his/her name, address, likeness, school, age, grade and/or prize information, without compensation, in any eSchool News or program sponsor's advertising, publicity, or promotion, and/or for general news and information purposes. Winners consent to having their photographs taken by eSchool News for such use, without compensation.

10. The chances of winning depend on the total number and quality of eligible entries received prior to the closing date.

11. If for any reason this program is not capable of running as planned or if in the sole discretion of eSchool News the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this contest is corrupted or adversely affected, eSchool News reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the program, including the selection of winners from previously received mail.

12. These rules are subject to change without notice for any reason including, without limitation, if necessary to comply with any applicable law or regulation. By entering this contest, entrants agree to abide by these contest rules and regulations and acknowledge that eSchool News shall not be responsible for any damages, costs, demands, claims, or losses of any kind, made in connection with, in respect of, or arising out of this contest or the prizes, including without limitation, in connection with the making or using of the video submissions. This contest shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Maryland and the federal laws of the United States of America applicable therein. These rules govern all aspects of the contest and are binding on all participants.