Photo Contest

Submit your photos or videos for a chance to win a $500 Amazon.com giftcard.

Who better to capture your group’s summer tour experience than you? After you return from tour, simply pick up to 7 of your best tour shots or some of your prize video footage, submit them online, and you may just be well on your way to $500 worth of free stuff at Amazon.com.

Photo Contest Details

Video Contest Details

Photo Contest Details

Prizes

3 entries will be chosen and displayed on our website:

    * 1st place- $500 to Amazon.com
    * 2nd place- $300 to Amazon.com
    * 3rd place- $200 each to Amazon.com

Contest Rules

The Explorica Teacher Photo Contest is open only to summer 2009 Explorica teachers traveling between May 15, 2009 and August 1, 2009. All photos submitted must be the original work of the Explorica teacher 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 Teacher Photo Contest Official Rules

Contest Guidelines

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 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 Teacher Photo Contest group. It's as easy as going to http://www.flickr.com/groups/explorica-2009-teacher-photo-contest/, then clicking Join This Group. Welcome to the club!

3. Then, submit photos to the Explorica 2009 Teacher 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
    * 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

Prizes

3 entries will be chosen and displayed on our website:

    * 1st place- $500 to Amazon.com
    * 2nd place- $300 to Amazon.com
    * 3rd place- $200 each to Amazon.com

Contest Rules

The Explorica Teacher Video Contest is open only to summer 2009 Explorica teachers traveling between May 15, 2009 and August 1, 2009. All videos submitted must be the original work of the Explorica teacher 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 Teacher 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 on YouTube. Tag your YouTube video with "Explorica Educational Travel 2009 Teacher Contest".

2. Join Explorica's Teacher Video Contest group by visiting http://www.youtube.com/group/2009exploricatc 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 us an email to online@explorica.com with the following information:

    * Your full name and Tour ID
    * Your school
    * The name of your trip

Special Note: Future Explorica materials may include video submitted to the contest. By entering the contest you consent to the use of your video and video likenesses.

Holly Vins - Winner of Explorica's Spring 2009 Photo Contest