Register
Registration for the 2011 International E-Waste Design Competition will open January 4, 2011.
Registration is free. Participants can register as individuals or as teams as long as the team has no more than 5 members. Entrants need to register for the competition between January 4 and April 1, 2010. Competition registration closes at 4:59pm Central Time on April 1.There will be no opportunity for early or late registration.
Online Submission Form
Each submission team must complete the online submission form that includes team and contact information, as well as a list of e-waste and new components used. A project description (500 words maximum) must also be included on the online submission form.
An optional bibliography of references consulted in the preparation of the design project and/or cited in the project description may be uploaded in PDF format. There is no limit on the number of references that may be cited. Although the bibliography is optional, it should be noted that the provision of resources cited and credit for research and intellectual property referenced is considered when judging entries (see Judging Criteria for both E-waste Prevention and E-waste Reuse categories).
"Video Commercial" Submission
Participants should create an original video composition that serves as a commercial for their product, highlighting its design, features, and special design concepts. The video should NOT be a plain description of the project or a narrative description of the project.
The video should be uploaded to YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/) and should be listed as “Unlisted (anyone with the link can view).” After the competition results are announced, the video can be made public by the entrants. Please be advised that making your video unlisted protects your anonymity during the judging process, and helps to ensure that your design ideas are protected from potential competitors while registration remains open, however it is up to you to guard the link to your video—in other words, you are advised to share the link to your video only with your team mates and the judges via the online submission form. An “unlisted” video is not entirely private; it might still appear elsewhere on the web if anyone who knows the video’s URL shares it. ISTC, SEI, the University of Illinois, its affiliates and competition sponsors are not responsible for infringement upon your intellectual property if the link to your video is shared beyond your team and the judges and competition administrators via the online submission form. See http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=181547 for more information on “unlisted” videos. The link to your video will be entered on your online submission form.
The following actions are REQUIREMENTS for your video upload. Failure to comply with these requirements will result in disqualification from the competition.
- Your video should be not less than one minute and not more than two minutes long.
- Your video must be made embeddable. This will allow our jurors to view your video, together with other relevant project information, such as your project description, optional bibliography, etc. in a format that makes review and deliberation regarding entries simple, while ensuring that your identity is not associated with your video during the deliberation. See http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=171780, “Disable/enable the option to embed” for guidance on how to make your video embeddable.
- Turn the comments off for your video. See http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&answer=58123 for guidelines on how to do this. This will prevent jurors from being influenced positively or negatively by comments left on your video.
- Your video should include an intro screen that details the project name and name of this competition. Please do NOT include your names in the video—your team and contact information should only be identified on the online submission form.
Note that the online submission form can be accessed and revised by entrants from the competition web site until the registration deadline; after the deadline passes, you will no longer be able to access or modify your submission.