2008 Big Mobile on Campus Challenge

Official Rules

 Eligibility
Open to full-time students and full or part-time staff who attend or work at a 4-year public or private college or university (non-profit, accredited, degree issuing) within the continental United States. Entrants must be 18 or older and legal residents of the continental United States. Teams of up to four (4) individuals may submit an entry.

How to Enter
To enter contest, between 8:00 am (PT) on April 1, 2008 and 5:00 pm (PT) on August 31, 2008, develop an innovative custom wireless application to be used on AT&T wireless devices and submit such application through the online form at www.att.com/higherEDcontest. To be eligible, applications submitted as entries must be a social networking, academic, or safety & security application. Applications should ideally operate across multiple platforms (WAP, JAVA, RIM BlackBerry J2ME, Linus, Palm OS, Symbian, Windows Mobile and OS X), and multiple devices (voice centric and data devices such as a PDA, SmartPhone and Blackberry). Entries must include a business case, including distribution concepts and plans, and supporting documents (pdfs or a PowerPoint presentation) with one (1) screen shot of the application on a mobile device. All entries/applications must be received by 5:00 pm (PT) on August 31, 2008. Sponsor’s servers and clock shall be deemed the official clock for the contest and entrant’s proof of submission does not constitute proof of receipt by sponsor. Incomplete and/or duplicate entries will be void. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, misdirected, late, incomplete, illegible or unintelligible entries/applications or for inaccurate entry information, whether caused by participant or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this contest, or by an technical or human error that may occur in the processing of entries/applications. By submitting an entry/application, each entrant represents and warrants that (i) each application is original; (ii) each application does not infringe the intellectual property or any rights of any third party; and (iii) he/she is entitled or duly licensed to submit the entry/application. Entrants may submit multiple entries, but only one (1) prize per entrant will be awarded.

Judging
Each entry/application will be reviewed by sponsor to determine which entries/applications are qualified entries. Qualified entries/applications will be judged by a panel of qualified judges selected by sponsor using the following judging criteria: (i) application concept; (ii) design, implementation and quality; (iii) impact on the higher education community; and (iv) business case. On September 5, 2008, sponsor will notify the entrants of the top 9 entries/applications (3 from each of the application categories: social networking, academics, and safety & security) (the “Finalists”). The Finalists will be asked to submit their program code for testing and up to ten (10) screen shots of the application on a mobile device, which must be provided to sponsor no later than September 15, 2008. The sponsor will schedule a 45-minute webinar session for each of the Finalists to present and demo their application to a panel of qualified judges selected by sponsor. The presentations will be scheduled between September 16 and 30, 2008. A maximum of four (4) presenters per Finalist may participate in a presentation. During the presentations, the judges will judge the applications presented based on the following judging criteria: (i) application concept; (ii) design, implementation and quality; (iii) impact on the higher education community; and (iv) business case. The Finalists’ entries will be scored using the foregoing four judging criteria with each criteria receiving a possible score of ten. (The highest total score any entry may receive is 40). In the event there is a tie, the tie will be broken by the judges judging the tied entries using design, implementation and quality as the judging criteria. The Finalist with the highest score will be awarded the Grand Prize, and the two (2) Finalists with the second and third highest scores will be awarded a Runner-up Prize. Winners will be notified by sponsor via the e-mail address and phone number provided by the entrants on the entry forms on October 1, 2008. Each winner will be required to sign and return to sponsor an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Public Release within 7 days of being notified that he/she is a winner. If any winner is deemed not eligible, an alternate winner will be selected.

Prizes
Schools whose students/staff become Finalists will be provided complementary membership to AT&T’s Mobility Developer Central Organization. Sponsor will notify the appropriate schools of their complementary membership the week of September 8, 2008.

    Grand Prize: One (1) Grand Prize will be awarded, consisting of a $10,000 scholarship/grant; choice of one (1) AT&T mobile device (laptops excluded); and a trip to attend the EduCause Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida on October 28-31, 2008. The approximate retail value of the Grand Prize is $17,500. In the event the Grand Prize winner consists of a team of up to four members, (a) the scholarship/grant may be divided amongst the team members, provided all team members attend the same institution; (b) one (1) AT&T mobile device will be awarded to each team member; and (c) each team member will have the opportunity to attend the EduCause Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida. The scholarship/grant must be used within two years of the date it is awarded. Trip includes round trip economy class airfare between the major airport nearest winner’s home and Orlando, Florida, three (3) nights hotel accommodations and attendance at the convention. Trip does not include, and winner will be responsible for, ground transportation, meals, gratuities, entertainment costs and any other expenses incurred in connection with such trip. Travel times, airline and hotel are at the discretion of sponsor. The choice of the AT&T mobile device is limited to devices available in the marketplace at the time the prize is awarded.

    Runner-Up Prizes: Two (2) Runner-Up Prizes will be awarded, each consisting of a $5,000 scholarship/grant; and choice of one (1) AT&T mobile device for each team member (laptops excluded). The approximate retail value of each Runner-Up Prize is $7,000. In the event a Runner-Up Prize winner consists of a team of up to four members, (a) the scholarship/grant may be divided amongst the team members, provided all team members attend the same institution; and (b) one (1) AT&T mobile device will be awarded to each team member. The scholarship/grant must be used within two years of the date it is awarded. The choice of the AT&T mobile device is limited to devices available in the marketplace at the time the prize is awarded.

The approximate retail value of all prizes is $31,500. Winners are responsible for paying all costs and expenses related to the prizes that are not specifically mentioned, including, but not limited to, taxes and airtime. In the event a staff member is a winner or a member of a winning team, he/she may elect to be awarded the cash value of the scholarship/grant, or portion thereof awarded to him/her as a member of the winning team. Prize won by a minor in any state where the age of majority is not 18 will be awarded to such minor’s parent or legal guardian who must sign and return all required documentation.

Additional Terms
Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, terminate, or suspend this contest should viruses, bugs, unauthorized human intervention or other causes beyond sponsor’s control corrupt or impair the administration, security or fairness of the contest. Sponsor is not responsible for any human error that may occur in the processing of the entries/applications, nor is it responsible for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alternation of, entries/applications, whether caused by the sender or any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this contest. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify an individual found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the contest or web site; to be acting in violation of these rules; or to be acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Any use of robotic, automatic, programmed or similar entry methods will void all such entries submitted by such methods. In the event of a dispute as to entries/applications submitted by multiple users having the same e-mail account, the authorized subscriber of the e-mail account used to enter the contest as the actual time of entry will be deemed to be the participant and must comply with these rules. The authorized account subscriber is deemed to be the natural person who is assigned an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domains associated with the submit e-mail addresses. Only the number of prizes stated in these Official Rules will be awarded.

Miscellaneous
By entering, participants agree to be bound by these rules. No transfer, assignment, cash redemption or substitution of prizes is permitted except by sponsor due to prize availability and then with a prize of equal or greater value. By accepting a prize, each winner agrees (for himself or herself and his or her heirs) that sponsor and its affiliates and agents will have no liability, and will be held harmless by such winner for any liability, loss, injury or damage to property or to person including death, and reasonable attorney’s fees and court costs, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by reason of the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the prize or participation in this contest, even if caused or contributed to by the negligence of sponsor. Participants agree that the decisions of sponsor related to this contest and the judging of entries/applications are final. By participating in contest, each winner consents to the use of his/her name, photograph and/or likeness in any manner and in any medium for promotional purposes without additional compensation, except where prohibited by law.

Winners’ List
For an identification of winners, send a request along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope for receipt by October 7, 2008 to: AT&T, Attn: Michele Brittingham, EBS Segment Marketing; P.O. Box 97061, Redmond, WA 98073-9761.

Sponsor
AT&T Mobility II, LLC; 5565 Glenridge Connector, Atlanta, GA 33042