General Information

There are no entry or other fees associated with participation in the Yellow Pages Association (YPA) 2009-2010 Advertising Challenge.

The competition is open to all full- or part-time undergraduate students currently enrolled in any U. S. or Canadian two or four year college or university.

These rules and regulations are effective as of the time an individual registers for competition participation.

Faculty

Any individual who is a full or part-time instructor/lecturer/professor at a U. S. or Canadian two or four year college or university may serve as a faculty sponsor.

A faculty member can sponsor more than one team.

Faculty sponsors are encouraged to provide on-going support and consultation. The final project, however, must be the sole work of the student(s).

There may be more than one faculty sponsor per department, college or university.

Students

All student participants must verify their academic status as a full-or part-time undergraduate student and confirm their agreement with all competition rules and regulations via the online registration form located at http://www.ypa-academics.org/cc/compet_register_creative.html.

A competition entry may be produced by a student working alone or by students working in teams of no more than three students.

An individual student may not be a member of more than one team or submit more than one entry.

The Entry

The advertising created in response to the YPA Collegiate Advertising Competition may be assigned as part of a class assignment or students may work on the project outside of class.

A completed project is composed of:

Students are free use any clip art or other graphics so long as there is no copyright infringement.

Projects will not be returned and receipt cannot be acknowledged.

While ads cannot be returned, they do remain the property of the entrants. No ads will be used or placed in any media (beyond the posting of the winning entries on the YPA web site) without the entrants' permission.

Non-winning entries will only be used or distributed by YPA with the permission of the student team or faculty sponsor.

Submission

Student projects can be mailed by either the students or their faculty sponsor. If a sponsor is submitting entries from more than one group, all entries can be mailed/sent in a single envelope.

All complete student projects must be received by YPA no later than April 23, 2010. The address is:

Yellow Pages Association
820 Kirts Blvd., Suite 100
Troy, Michigan 48084.

Submissions received after this date are not eligible and will not be judged. FAX or electronic submissions are not permitted and will not be judged.

Judging

A panel of YPA appointed industry experts as well as representatives from U-Store-It and its agency will evaluate submitted student projects. All decisions of the judges are final.

Awards

Prize Awards will be distributed as follows:

All award winners will receive a personal letter of achievement from the YPA President.

Miscellaneous

Participants agree to indemnify and hold harmless all individuals and organizations associated with the competition [including, but not limited to, the Yellow Pages Association, association directors and members, competition judges, competition supervisors and coordinators, competition Academic Advisor] from any and all damages, losses or claims resulting from direct or indirect participation in the competition.

Participants assume any and all risks involved in the preparation of the project and in participation in the competition