Fancy yourself a bit of a shutterbug? Think you could fill your Amazon.com shopping cart with $300 worth of books, movies, video games, electronics and more? Then submit your photos or video of your 2009 tour to Explorica's Student Photo and Video Contest.
Just pick up to 7 of your best shots or some of your prize video footage from your tour, submit them online, and you may just be well on your way to $300 worth of free stuff.
Photo Contest Details
Video Contest Details
Photo Contest Details
The Prize Patrol
7 entries will be chosen and displayed on our website:
* 1st place- $300 to Amazon.com
* 2nd place- $200 to Amazon.com
* 3rd place- $100 to Amazon.com
* 4 Honorable Mentions- $50 each to Amazon.com
Contest Rules
The Explorica Student Photo Contest is open only to summer 2009 Explorica students traveling between May 15, 2009 and August 1, 2009 with birthdates after 1987. All photos submitted must be the original work of the Explorica student submitting them.
We will accept submissions for the 2009 contest until August 15, 2009. Winners will be announced on September 15, 2009 on our website.
Explorica Student Photo Contest Official Rules
What We're Looking For
If your eyes are really on that Amazon.com prize, follow these few quick suggestions to maximize your winning potential:
● The higher the resolution the better. Shoot for 300 dpi or greater.
● Only color images will be accepted.
● Your entries will be judged on composition of the image and significance of the content. We don’t want posed snapshots in front of monuments. We want candid photos which show you and your fellow tour participants experiencing the culture you visited.
If you have any questions, please email online@explorica.com.
How to Submit Your Entry
It's really pretty easy, but we've broken it down into four quick steps:
1. Upload your photos to Flickr.com. Don't have a Flickr account? No worries. You can easily create one at Flickr.com.
2. Join the Explorica 2009 Student Photo Contest group. It's as easy as going to http://www.flickr.com/groups/explorica-2009-student-photo-contest/, then clicking Join This Group. Welcome to the club!
3. Then, submit photos to the Explorica 2009 Student Photo Contest group by clicking "Send to Group" on each photo's page. Now, everybody can check out your photos.
4. Finally (whew!), email us your high-resolution copies of your submissions at online@explorica.com, including the following information:
* Your full name and Tour ID
* Your school
* Your teacher’s name
* The name of your trip.
Also, we'd love it if you'd either zip or stuff your photos. If you experience file-size trouble, try using YouSendIt.com, a free site that enables you to send files larger than your email server may allow.
Special Note: Future Explorica materials may include photographs submitted to the contest. By entering the contest you consent to the use of your photographs and photographic likenesses.
Video Contest Details
The Prize Patrol
3 entries will be chosen and displayed on our website:
* 1st place- $300 to Amazon.com
* 2nd place- $200 to Amazon.com
* 3rd place- $100 to Amazon.com
Contest Rules
The Explorica Student Video Contest is open only to summer 2009 Explorica students traveling between May 15, 2009 and August 1, 2009 with birthdates after 1987. All video submitted must be the original work of the Explorica student submitting them.
We will accept submissions for the 2009 contest until August 15, 2009. Winners will be announced on September 15, 2009 on our website.
Explorica Student Video Contest Official Rules
What We're Looking For
First, watch tips on How to Make a Travel Video.
Videos will be judged based on the quality of the footage, overall theme and effectiveness at communicating what an Explorica tour is all about—students experiencing the world! Be creative…
Your video should be between 2-3 minutes.
If you have any questions, please email online@explorica.com.
How to Submit Your Entry
It's really pretty easy, but we've broken it down into three quick steps:
1. Post your video YouTube. Tag your YouTube video with “Explorica Educational Travel 2009 Student Contest”.
2. Join Contest Sponsor’s Student Video Contest group by visiting http://www.youtube.com/group/2009exploricasc and clicking the “Join Group” link. On the group's page, click the “Add Videos” link on the appropriate page and select which videos you would like to add. Then click "Add to Group".
3. Send an email to online@explorica.com with the following information:
* Your full name and Tour ID
* Your school
* Your teacher’s name
* The name of your trip.
Special Note: Future Explorica materials may include videos submitted to the contest. By entering the contest you consent to the use of your videos and video likenesses.