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I’m not even kidding. This is the LAST day. If you have questions, concerns, please e-mail us at ideas@yale.edu. We will be sure that all questions are answered asap. We want your entries! All those prizes have to go to someone! 
Another question we get frequently is: If I have a [insert kind of document here.. PDF, DOC, JPG, XLS, PPT, etc.] document, can I submit that with my entry too?
Absolutely! If you have extra documents, please send them to us. They’ll help us better understand your project. Photos, site maps, accompanying video- anything really that will help us understand your concept. Just e-mail the docs to ideas@yale.edu after you submit your entry on the website.
So, say that your file is too big to send through regular e-mail. You can use the Yale ITS File Transfer Utility where you can upload a file, “attach” it to an e-mail, and when we open the e-mail we can go to ITS and download the docs. All the instructions are on that site.
Or say that you have physical materials to accompany your project. Give us a shout at ideas@yale.edu and let us know. We have offices at which you can drop off materials. We do ask that physical materials be submitted by Monday, February 2nd, so our judges can have all of the entries and entry material in front of them.
And they keep coming in! Only 3 days left! Remember, the contest CLOSES FRIDAY, JAN 30th at 11:59PM. So, save the stress for exam time and submit your entry now.
We’ve been recently asked about the Promotional Use clause in the rules. So, let’s just go through it right quick:
Promotional Use:
The Sponsor agrees that Entrants shall retain the copyright to their works, except to the extent that the Entrants have voluntarily entered into a written contractual arrangement with the Sponsor.
By agreeing to participate in the Contest, you grant the Sponsor a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license to use your submission — in its entirety, in part, or as part of one or more collective works — in connection with the promotion of the Contest or Sponsor. This includes the right to use, reproduce, publicly or privately perform, display, broadcast and transmit your submission, digitally or otherwise in all media and formats that are known or hereafter devised. The above rights also include the right to revise, modify or edit your submission as is technically necessary to exercise the foregoing rights in other media or formats.
OK, that’s a lot of legal jargon. To best explain this, take a look at our archive page. What you’ll see is the list of last year’s entrants and winners (and little pictures of the winners’ sites). To promote the contest, we make the links available for those entering the conest this year to see examples. Of course, if your site is temporary or needs to come down for some reason, we’re reasonable folks and can take the link down- to that point, having a link to your site is not a bad thing. We want you guys to have more traffic to your sites and get more Internet exposure. It’s a good thing most of the time.
What will not do is retain any copyright to your project/ creation. It is your project born from your creativity. If you design an iPhone App and submit it to the IDEA contest, and that app goes on to be the year’s most popular iPhone App (iFart, I’m looking at you), we’re not going to claim that we helped make the app or that the IDEA contest owns any part of your app. The profits you make and the fame that you gain are all your own. What we will do is shamelessly say “That App participated in our contest! How cool is our contest? Very cool!”. If you win, we’ll put up a screenshot of your App on the IDEA site and link to you so future years can see what kinds of projects are accepted for the IDEA contest. What also might happen is, at our annual IDEA reception & announcement of winners, we may show off how to use your app when we announce that you won.
The point of the contest is to celebrate Yalies’ digital creativity… and give out cool prizes. If you do have legal questions, send them to our e-mail, ideas@yale.edu.
I’m not even kidding. Yalies never disappoint.
The entries we’ve gotten so far are really really awesome. The way it’s looking, it definitely seems like we’re going to need to have a second round of judging.
Entry deadline is THIS FRIDAY, January 30th at 11:59pm. Holy cow (Happy New Year! Chunjie kuai le!) is it almost February already??
Happy Inauguration day, everyone! We hope you’ll take a break from your entries to watch the momentous occasion tonight- whether that be in DC or at home on your tv or computer. Personally, we’re celebrating by looking over some of the entries that have already been submitted! Thanks for the entries- for those of you who have already entered, and good luck to those who are preparing their entries!
The IDEA Contest will run from Jan. 1 till Jan. 30, 2009. Yale students can enter their projects at the IDEA Registration page. All contest descriptions are updated at the About page, and Official Rules are posted!
Go forth, and create!
Questions? E-mail ideas@yale.edu.
IMAGINE – ENGAGE – EDUCATE
Yale is a community of ~ 23,000 people, comprised of more than 330 buildings that operate 365 days a year. The university produces and consumes energy, relies upon natural resources locally and globally, produces waste and consequently has a substantial impact on our environment. In the meantime, Yale is expanding its built environment 15% over the next decade.
In an effort to reduce it’s overall ecological footprint and institutionalize policies and practices that lead to resource use reduction, Yale has taken on the challenge of becoming a leader in campus sustainability. Many goals and targets have been established to guide this effort. One such goal is to reduce our greenhouse gases 10% below 1990 levels by 2020 or a 43% reduction from 2005 levels.
The Yale community plays an integral role in the University’s success of becoming a sustainable institution. To reach this goal, the community must be aware of Yale’s commitment, understand the complexity of the challenge and participate by adopting sustainable behaviors.
To learn more about sustainability at Yale go to the Office of Sustainability site at www.yale.edu/sustainability
The Challenge:
Sustainability is a complex endeavor which requires vision, imagination, creativity, an interdisciplinary framework, critical thinking and analysis and problem solving. We are challenged to integrate principles of sustainability in most decisions we make on a daily basis from the food we eat to the transportation we take to the amount of energy we use.
This is an opportunity to demonstrate how digital technology can advance Yale’s commitment to become a sustainable campus. Develop a project that: demonstrates IMAGINATION on what it means to be sustainable; EDUCATES the general community on an issue and how they might think differently about a decision; seeks to ENGAGE multiple perspectives and new knowledge.
Develop a podcast, videocast or other digital medium which raises awareness by telling the story of the complex challenge that Yale faces and how a complex institution seeks solutions.
Judging:
Judging will be based on the following criteria:
- Scope of target audience
- Creativity in presenting information.
- Demonstrated ability to use digital media to convey information
Prize:
The top three submissions will have their work incorporated into the Yale Peabody Museum’s upcoming Sustainable Solutions exhibit as well as featured on the Office of Sustainability’s website.
The Yale Idea site is now live…and what a busy few days we’ve had!
We hope you saw our ad in Thursday’s Yale Daily News or passed by one of our posters hanging around campus.
The big news this week is that the Digital Media Center for the Arts officially joined us a sponsor and added an amazing new prize to the list.
The winner of the DMCA Digital Art Award will win a one-year premium subscription to Lynda.com’s online training library and a Wacom Intuous 3 graphics tablet.
If you want to be considered for the DMCA Digital Art Award all you need to do is enter. Click here to get to the form.
We also updated the rules to extend the submission period through noon on April 14th. That’s only about two weeks away…submit now!
