When submitting materials, please provide a brief description of both the project and the technical tools used to create the submission. Refrain from including the student's name or other information that may provide insight to the student's identity in the description.
All submitted work must be compliant to both the ethical and copyright guidelines of the festival.
Ethical Guidelines:
Every submission must be a teacher-approved piece that was submitted for a class or club activity. The festival's goal is to highlight and recognize outstanding student achievements, so submitted materials should be project exemplars.
Submissions cannot promote gratuitous violence or sexual content, nor the recreational use of controlled substances. We reserve the right to refuse submissions based on the Genesee Valley Educational Partnership's Code of Conduct.
If a submission does not meet our guidelines we will allow edited resubmissions up until the deadline. This means that last minute submissions may not have time for additional review so please submit work early.
And always remember that each submission is a representation of your school.
Categories:
Audio - Submission length can be up to 10 minutes. Entries may either either be pure audio or accompanied by visual content as well, though the focus of either entry is on the composition and delivery of the audio content. The preferred format is .mp3, Flash Video (.flv), .mp4 or .m4a, or a web embeddable code but Windows Media (.wmv) and QuickTime (.mov) files will also be accepted.. Examples: vodcasts, commentaries, interviews, news programs, or radio plays. For m4a files exported from Garage Band, please compress with AAC Encoder, Audio at Higher Quality and un-check the box for setting the artwork to a recommended size for podcasts.
Image - A still media comprised of either a photography or a graphical entry generated from computer software. Submissions may be a single image or a photo essay (submitted as a single file). Photographs can either be taken by a digital camera or scanned to a digital format. Images should be submitted at the highest resolution possible, though size may not exceed 10MB. Entries can be in .jpeg or .png format. Examples: portraits, landscapes, photo essays or montages, computer art, CAD projects, floor plans, maps, or product packaging.
Publication - More text-centric entries, publications can be web-based or come from word processing or publishing software. Documents must be submitted as a .doc, .pdf, .rtf or .rtfd and the size may not exceed 10MB. For web-based entries, the preferred format is Flash Video (.flv) or a web embeddable code. In order to maintain adherence to submission deadlines, links to web-based student work are not generally not acceptable. Examples: newsletters, advertisements, graphic novels, pamphlets, or posters, glogster, wikis and blogs.
Video - Any moving pictures, with or without sound, including: videos, animations and web-based content. Length can be up to 10 minutes and a files may have a maximum of 50MB size. The preferred format is Flash Video (.flv) but Windows Media (.wmv) and QuickTime (.mov) files will also be accepted. Examples: animations, stop motion, music videos, satires, talkies, informational pieces, voicethreads, and animotos.
