Lexus Environmental Challenge Official Rules Continued
JUDGING:
Challenges #1-4:
Potential prize winners will be selected from among all eligible entries received by a panel of
qualified independent judges determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion based on a numerical point system within the following categories:
1. Action Plan (50 points)
• Have all questions been answered? Do the responses clearly and accurately answer the questions?
• Does the Action Plan show the Team’s full understanding of the environmental issue?
• Does the Action Plan clearly describe the preliminary plan?
• Does the Action Plan clearly show the Team’s actions in the implementation phase?
• Does the Action Plan clearly describe the results?
• Does the plan help to raise community awareness? Has the Team used the provided press release template and/or organized a school event to raise awareness of the issue?
2. Overall Team Effort (30 points)
• Does the Action Plan communicate Team effort?
• Does the Action Plan indicate each Team members’ actions in the project?
3. Quality of Writing (20 points)
• Are the responses well organized? Do they communicate ideas clearly?
• Do the responses communicate a persuasive argument?
• Are the paragraphs well structured with clear transitions?
• Do the responses reflect proper spelling, capitalization, and use of punctuation (e.g., commas, semi-colons, colons, quotation marks, dashes)?
• Have students carefully checked their work before submitting it, or are there mistakes?
Supporting Materials (EXTRA CREDIT – up to 10 points)
• Has the Team included supporting materials as part of their entry?
• Do the supporting materials provide evidence of the Team in action preparing and/or implementing their plan?
In the event of a tie, an additional "tie-breaking" independent judge will determine the winner based on the same criteria set forth above. The decisions of the independent judges are final and binding. The Sponsor reserves the right to not award all prizes if, in its sole discretion, it does not receive a sufficient number of qualified and eligible entries.
Final Challenge--Challenge #5: World
Potential first place and grand prize winners will be selected from among all eligible entries received by a panel of qualified independent judges determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion based on a numerical point system within the following categories:
1. Power Point Presentation (50 points)
• Has the contest topic been answered fully?
• Does the Power Point presentation demonstrate the Team's full understanding of the environmental issue?
• Is the Power Point presentation creative and compelling?
• Are images, photos, charts, graphs, or other visual media incorporated?
2. Overall Team Effort (30 points)
• Does the Power Point presentation communicate Team effort?
• Does the Power Point presentation indicate each Team member's contribution to the presentation?
3. Quality of Writing (20 points)
• Is the presentation well organized? Does it communicate ideas clearly?
• Does the presentation communicate a persuasive argument?
• Are the slides well structured with clear transitions?
• Does the presentation reflect proper spelling, capitalization, and use of punctuation (e.g., commas, semi-colons, colons, quotation marks, dashes)?
• Have students carefully checked their work before submitting it, or are there mistakes?
TEAM PRIZES FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHER ADVISOR:
Challenge #1: Land
Potential winners will be notified on or about October 23, 2007 by telephone and/or mail.
PRIZE: Sixteen (16) prize winning Teams consisting of two (2) middle school teams in each of four Lexus market regions—Eastern, Southern, Central, and Western as shown on this map (the "Four Lexus Market Regions") AND two (2) high school teams in each of the Four Lexus Market Regions will each receive a $3,000 prize. The $3,000 prize is to be distributed as follows: $500 grant to the Teacher Advisor for school-related expenses and $2500 to be evenly distributed among the Team members in the form of checks made payable to the parent or legal guardian of each Student who was part of the winning Team. The sixteen (16) winning Teams will also be invited to compete in the Final Challenge—Challenge #5: World.
Total approximate retail value ("ARV") of all prizes and awards for Challenge #1 combined: $48,000.
Challenge #2: Water
Potential winners will be notified on or about November 19, 2007 by telephone and/or mail.
PRIZE: Sixteen (16) prize winning Teams consisting of two (2) middle school teams in each of the Four Lexus Market Regions AND two (2) high school teams in each of the Four Lexus Market Regions will each receive a $3,000 prize. The $3,000 prize is to be distributed as follows: $500 grant to the Teacher Advisor for school-related expenses and $2500 to be evenly distributed among the Team members in the form of checks made payable to the parent or legal guardian of each Student who was part of the winning Team. The sixteen (16) winning Teams will also be invited to compete in the Final Challenge—Challenge #5: World.
Total ARV of all prizes and awards for Challenge #2 combined: $48,000.
Challenge #3: Air
Potential winners will be notified on or about December 21, 2007 by telephone and/or mail.
PRIZE: Sixteen (16) prize winning Teams consisting of two (2) middle school teams in each of the Four Lexus Market Regions AND two (2) high school teams in each of the Four Lexus Market Regions will each receive a $3,000 prize. The $3,000 prize is to be distributed as follows: $500 grant to the Teacher Advisor for school-related expenses and $2500 to be evenly distributed among the Team members in the form of checks made payable to the parent or legal guardian of each Student who was part of the winning Team. The sixteen (16) winning Teams will also be invited to compete in the Final Challenge—Challenge #5: World.
Total ARV of all prizes and awards for Challenge #3 combined: $48,000.
Challenge #4: Climate
Potential winners will be notified on or about January 23, 2008 by telephone and/or mail.
PRIZE: Sixteen (16) prize winning Teams consisting of two (2) middle school teams in each of the Four Lexus Market Regions AND two (2) high school teams in each of the Four Lexus Market Regions will each receive a $3,000 prize. The $3,000 prize is to be distributed as follows: $500 grant to the Teacher Advisor for school-related expenses and $2500 to be evenly distributed among the Team members in the form of checks made payable to the parent or legal guardian of each Student who was part of the winning Team. The sixteen (16) winning Teams will also be invited to compete in the Final Challenge—Challenge #5: World.
Total ARV of all prizes and awards for Challenge #4 combined: $48,000.
Final Challenge--Challenge #5: World
Potential winners will be notified on or about March 31, 2008 by telephone and/or mail.
FIRST PLACE PRIZE: Fourteen (14) First Place winning Teams, consisting of seven (7) middle school teams AND seven (7) high school teams, will each receive $50,000. The $50,000 prize is to be distributed as follows: $10,000 to the winning Team's school, $5,000 grant to the Teacher Advisor for school-related expenses, and $35,000 in scholarships to be evenly distributed among all the Students who were part of the winning Team.
GRAND PRIZE: Two (2) Grand Prize winning Teams, consisting of one (1) middle school Team AND one (1) high school Team, will each receive $75,000. The $75,000 prize is to be distributed as follows: $15,000 to the winning team's school, $7,000 grant to the Teacher Advisor for school-related expenses, and $53,000 in scholarships to be evenly distributed among all the Students who were part of the winning Team.
Total ARV of all prizes and awards for Challenge #5 combined: $850,000.
Total combined ARV of all prizes and awards for all five Challenges in the Contest: $1,042,000.
GENERAL PRIZE AND AWARD CONDITIONS: Each prize winner and/or award recipient is solely and completely responsible for any and all federal, state, and local taxes on the prize and/or award, as applicable. If any winner is an eligible minor, the prize will be awarded in the name of the parent or legal guardian who will be required to fulfill all requirements imposed on winners set forth herein. Each winner and/or award recipient will be required to complete an IRS form W-9, and will be issued an IRS Form 1099 for the value of any prizes won. Each winner (or, if an eligible minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) will be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release ("Affidavit and Release") within seven (7) days of receipt of the Affidavit and Release or the prize may be forfeited and, at Sponsor's sole discretion, awarded to another winner.
No substitutions, transfers, or assignments of prizes or awards are allowed, except by the Sponsor, who reserves the right to substitute a prize or award (or portion thereof) of comparable or greater value, at its sole discretion. If any potential winning Team, winning Team member or his/her corresponding Teacher Advisor fails to comply with all requirements as set forth in these official rules or refuses or is unavailable to accept a prize, Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify such potential winning Team, Team member and his/her corresponding Teacher Advisor and, at its sole discretion, award the prize to another winner, or to distribute the prize evenly among the remaining team members of the Team or to award the Teacher Advisor prize to the school, as applicable.
By accepting the prize, each winner (or, if an eligible minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) grants to Sponsor and its designees the right to use his or her name, likeness, hometown, and biographical information (including grade and school name), for purposes of advertising and promotional purposes in any and all media now or hereafter known throughout the world in perpetuity without further notice, permission, or compensation, except where prohibited by law. One or more winners may also be required to attend and participate in media and/or public relations events (the "Media Events") designated by Sponsor and/or requested by various media outlets. Upon Sponsor's request, and subject to winner's availability, each winner agrees to participate in such Media Events without any further compensation. Sponsor shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to choose the winners it wishes to participate in such Media Events. By accepting the prize, all winners, whether or not chosen to participate in such Media Events, agree to release Sponsor and Sponsor's Related Entities and hold each of them harmless, from any claims relating to their selection, non-selection, participation or non-participation in any Media Events.
DISCLAIMER: The Sponsor and Sponsor's Related Entities shall not be liable for any injury/damage/loss/expense/accident/delay/inconvenience/irregularity that may be caused or contributed to by any wrongful, negligent or unauthorized act or omission on the part of any other person or entity not an employee of Sponsor or Sponsor's Related Entities, or by other cause, condition or event whatsoever beyond the control of any of the Sponsor or Sponsor's Related Entities. The Sponsor and Sponsor's Related Entities are not responsible or liable for, and will deem ineligible, Contest entries that are entered by other than human means (such as by an automated computer program or any non-human mechanism, entity, or device), or for Contest entries that are illegible, late, destroyed, delayed, lost, misplaced, stolen, misdirected, tampered with, forged, incomplete, deleted, damaged, or otherwise not in compliance with these official rules and all such Contest entries will be disqualified. By entering this Contest, each entrant (or, if an eligible minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) agrees and acknowledges to be bound by these official rules, as well as by the decisions of the Contest judges which are final and binding in all respects and to waive any rights to claim ambiguity with the official rules. Each entrant (or, if an eligible minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) further agrees and acknowledges that the Sponsor and the Sponsor's Related Entities shall have no responsibility or liability (including, but not limited to, liability for any property loss, damage, personal injury or death) in connection with: any participation in this Contest (including, but not limited to, any prize which may be awarded in the Contest); human error; incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information; acceptance/possession and/or use/misuse of any prize awarded herein, any technical malfunctions of a computer online system, computer dating mechanism, computer equipment, software, internet service provider; interruption or inability to access the Website, or any online service via the internet due to hardware or software compatibility problems; any damage to entrant's (or any third person's) computer and/or its contents related to or resulting from any part of this Contest; any lost/delayed/duplicate/multiple data transmissions, omissions, interruptions, defects and/or any other errors or malfunctions, even if caused by the negligence of the Sponsor or Sponsor's Related Entities.
RELEASE: By entering the Contest, entrant (or, if an eligible minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) agrees to forever release and hold harmless Sponsor and Sponsor's Related Entities (collectively, the "Released Parties"), from any and all claims, injuries, damages, or losses to the person or property and/or liabilities of any nature that in any way arise from participation in this Contest or acceptance or use of a prize (including any travel related hereto). In the event the Contest is compromised by non-authorized human intervention, virus, bugs, or other causes beyond the control of Sponsor which corrupts or impairs the administration, security, fairness, or proper play of the Contest, Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify, suspend, or terminate the Contest or any portion thereof and/or terminate the participation of any participant (and void his/her entry) whose conduct potentially compromises the Contest and at its sole discretion to award the prizes from among all eligible non-suspect entries received prior to termination using the judging procedures outlined above. Each entrant (or, if an eligible minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) acknowledges and agrees that the Released Parties are not responsible for interrupted or unavailable network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, or other connections; for lack of availability or accessibility, or miscommunications due to failed computer, satellite, telephone, or cable transmissions or lines; for technical failure or jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions; for computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures, or difficulties; or for any other computer, network, technical, typographical, human or other error, problem, or malfunction related to or in connection with the Contest, including, without limitation, errors, problems, or malfunctions that may occur in connection with the administration of the Contest, the announcement of the prizes, the processing or judging of entries, or any Contest-related materials. Each entrant (or, if an eligible minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) further acknowledges and agrees that the Released Parties are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by site users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest and assume no responsibility for any injury or damage to participants' or to any other persons' computer (whether hardware or software), relating to or resulting from downloading materials or software in connection with this Contest.
WINNERS LIST:
Challenge #1: Land
For the names of winners (available after 11/30/07), please go to the Website www.scholastic.com/lexus or send a stamped, self-addressed envelope by June 30, 2008 to: WINNERS: Lexus Environmental Challenge: Land, c/o Scholastic Inc., P.O. Box 713, New York, NY 10013- 0713.
Challenge #2: Water
For the names of winners (available after 12/30/07), please go to the Website www.scholastic.com/lexus or send a stamped, self-addressed envelope by June 30, 2008 to: WINNERS: Lexus Environmental Challenge: Water, c/o Scholastic Inc., P.O. Box 713, New York, NY 10013- 0713.
Challenge #3: Air
For the names of winners (available after 1/30/08), please go to the Website www.scholastic.com/lexus or send a stamped, self-addressed envelope by June 30, 2008 to: WINNERS: Lexus Environmental Challenge: Air, c/o Scholastic Inc., P.O. Box 713, New York, NY 10013- 0713.
Challenge #4: Climate
For the names of winners (available after 2/28/08), please go to the Website www.scholastic.com/lexus or send a stamped, self-addressed envelope by June 30, 2008 to: WINNERS: Lexus Environmental Challenge: Climate, c/o Scholastic Inc., P.O. Box 713, New York, NY 10013- 0713.
Challenge #5: World
For the names of winners (available after 4/30/08), please go to the Website www.scholastic.com/lexus or send a stamped, self-addressed envelope by June 30, 2008 to: WINNERS: Lexus Environmental Challenge: World, c/o Scholastic Inc., P.O. Box 713, New York, NY 10013- 0713.
SPONSOR: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. Inc. 19001 South Western Avenue, Torrance, CA 90509.
NAME REMOVAL
To have your name removed from this mailing list, and to prevent future promotional mailings, please write to: The Lexus Environmental Challenge, Lexus Communications, L201, 19001 South Western Avenue, Torrance, California 90501.
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