Center for International and Professional Experience (CIPE) Photo Contest

Celebrate International Education Week & Win a $75 iTunes Gift Card!

Join CIPE in celebrating International Education Week 2011– November 14-18.

International Education Week (IEW) is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to recognize the global exchange environment between the US and other countries.

To celebrate this event, CIPE is holding an online photo contest. Deadline for submissions is 12pm on Friday, November 4, 2011. Selected photos will be displayed on-campus, on the CIPE website.

CIPE seeks photos that support the mission of IEW: "to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide." Contest winners will be notified via email and announced on the website on Monday, November 14th.

Eligibility Criteria

The Center for International and Professional Experience (CIPE) Photo Contest is open to those students who meet BOTH of the following criteria:

Students must be currently enrolled in, or on a leave of absence from, Yale College.
Students must have received or currently be receiving a Yale College-administered fellowship, completed or currently be enrolled in a CIPE program abroad: Year or Term Abroad Program, the Peking University - Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program, Yale-in-London program, Yale Summer Session Abroad, Global Summer Program, Summer Abroad Credit for Non-Yale Programs, or Bulldogs International Internship.

Contest Deadline:
12pm on November 4, 2011

Winners will be notified on the website and via email on November 14, 2011.

Eligibility Criteria
Rules for Submission
Terms and Conditions
Selection of Winner Criteria
How to Submit Entry

Prizes

First prize - $75 iTunes gift card

Second prize - $50 iTunes gift card

Third prize - $25 iTunes gift card

iTunes

Winners from Previous Years

Rules for Submission

Students may submit only ONE photo, and it must be submitted electronically as a .jpg image (see "How to Submit Entry" below)
The photo must have been taken by the student.
If possible, the photo should be a high resolution image suitable for printing.
The photo must have been taken while the student was participating in one of the Center for International and Professional Experience (CIPE) programs abroad: Year or Term Abroad Program, the Peking University - Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program, Yale-in-London program, Yale Summer Session Abroad, Global Summer Program, Summer Abroad Credit for Non-Yale Programs, UCS Bulldogs International Internship program or other program funded by a Yale College-administered fellowship listed in the Student Grants Database.
In addition to submitting the photo, the student must include ALL of the following:
• Full name

• Class year

• Residential College

• Yale e-mail address

• The name of the CIPE program in which the student participated or the fellowship that the student received

• The name of the country and city or town where the student took the photo.

• A photo caption not to exceed 1024 characters describing how the student's photo "celebrates the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide."
Note: The student's name, year, college, email address, relevant CIPE program or fellowship, and name of where the photo was taken will NOT be counted toward the 1024 character limit.
Students agree to all terms and conditions of the CIPE Photo Contest.

Terms and Conditions

Submissions will be judged by staff members of the Center for International and Professional Experience (CIPE).
All decisions are final.
Winners will be notified on the website and via email on November 14, 2011.
Photo release terms: By submitting their photos to the CIPE Photo Contest, students agree to the following:
• Students grant Yale College the right to use their submitted photo for the purpose of promoting Yale College’s international programs;

• Students give Yale College, for the expressed purpose of promoting Yale College’s international programs, the right and permission with respect to the submitted photo to copyright the same in Yale College's own name or any other name that Yale College may choose; to use, re-use, publish and republish the same in whole or in part individually or in conjunction with other photos in any medium and for the expressed purpose of promoting Yale College; and to use their name in connection therewith if Yale College so chooses;

• Students release and discharge Yale College from any and all claims and demands arising out of or in connection with the use of the photo, including any and all claims for libel.
Failure to include any of the background information items will result in disqualification.

Selection of Winner Criteria

Winners will be selected based on the following:

Photo - The photo will be judged on the basis of artistic and technical merit, but more emphasis will be placed on the ways in which the photo captures the spirit of the IEW mission: "to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide."
Caption - The caption will be judged on the basis of how it addresses the ways in which the photo captures the spirit of the IEW mission: "to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide."
Photos will be evaluated "as is" for the purpose of the contest. However, Yale College reserves the right to resize the picture for its online presentation.
Background information will not be judged in any way.

How to Submit Entry

Students must submit their ONE entry by email to iew.photocontest@yale.edu.
Students must type "CIPE Photo Contest" as the subject of their email.
Students must include caption and photo information in the body of the email and include their photo submission as a .jpg attachment.
There is no contest entry fee.
Entries must be submitted by 12pm on Friday, November 4, 2011.
Any questions should be emailed to iew.photocontest@yale.edu.