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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.
Aaaand we’re back. Congratulations to last year’s winners! We’re very excited to start our 2009 contest on January 1, 2009. Currently, we’re revamping the website to include updates on the new contest parameters and prizes.
Last year we noticed that because there were so many different kinds of digital projects, it was really difficult to judge them all in one main category. Our judging parameters involved weighing the goals the entrants set for themselves and how they achieved those goals against the “overall” reach of the digital project and the creative use of technology. The entrants proved last year how creative and innovative Yale students are – but we found it to be difficult to judge a budding internet gaming company against a creative digital film, or judge a popular blog against an innovative eco-labeling project.
This year, we’ve decided to have different “themed” competitions all under the umbrella of the IDEA Contest- kind of like mini-contests with different specifications but similar goals and aspirations. Each theme is designed to pose a challenge (specific to that area) that encourages innovative and creative use of digital technology and the internet.
So far, we’ve got 3 Themes: Art, Business & Entrepreneurship, and Education. We’re currently talking to a number of other organizations across campus to try to include more themes. But what if you have an amazing digital project that doesn’t fit into one of these three themes? Don’t worry! We’ve accounted for that by setting up a fourth theme – General Entries. This way, we’re sure to have everyone covered.
Check back with ideas.yale.edu, as we are working hard to bring you this new contest. We will also do a better job at updating this blog and keeping the Yale community up to speed with this year’s contest!
A reminder to everyone interested in submitting content to the Yale IDEA competition:
The deadline for entries is April 14th, at 12:01 PM. Everyone hoping to submit a website, game, video or other creative digital work should head over to the Yale Ideas website ideas.yale.edu and fill out a registration form before April 14th at 12:01 PM to be eligible for one of the dozens of cool prizes, fellowships or honors available, including your chance to claim the title as winner of the inaugural Yale Ideas competition.
A private reception will be held for all entrants on April 22nd at 6 PM announcing the winners, giving you a chance to talk to other participants, meet Yale’s digital and multimedia teams, and the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of EA Games, Bing Gordon (Branford, 72′).
