ELIGIBILITY

The Challenge IS open to: 

• individuals who are between 13 and 24 years of age as of the time of entry
• teams of eligible individuals
• teams entering on behalf of organizations (including corporations, not-for-profit corporations and other nonprofit organizations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and other legal entities) that exist and have been organized or incorporated at the time of entry, and employ no more than 50 people (“Organizations”)
• teams entering on behalf of organizations with more than 50 employees (“Large Organizations”) may enter to receive recognition on the Challenge Website (a “Large Organization Recognition Award”), but are not eligible to win monetary prizes.

(the above are collectively, “Makers”)

An individual may join more than one team or Organization, or Large Organization and an individual who is part of a team, Organization, or Large Organization may also enter the Challenge on an individual basis.  

If a team or organization is entering the Challenge, they must appoint and authorize one individual (the “Representative”) to represent, act, and enter a Submission, on their behalf. The Representative must meet the eligibility requirements above. By entering a Submission on the Site on behalf of a team or organization, you represent and warrant that you are the Representative authorized to act on behalf of your team or organization.

The Challenge IS NOT open to: 

• individuals who are residents of, or Organizations or Large Organizations domiciled in, a country, state, province or territory where the laws of the United States or local law prohibits participating or receiving a prize in the Challenge (including, but not limited to, Brazil, Quebec, Italy, and Cuba, Sudan, Iran, North Korea, Syria and any other country designated by the United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control)
• organizations involved with the design, production, paid promotion, execution, or distribution of the Challenge, including ChallengePost and Silicon Harlem (“Promotion Entities”)
• employees, representatives and agents** of such organizations, and all members of their immediate family or household*
• any other individual involved with the design, production, promotion, execution, or distribution of the Challenge, and each member of their immediate family or household*
• any Judge (defined below), or company or individual that employs a Judge
• any parent company, subsidiary, or other affiliate*** of any organization described above
• any other individual or organization whose participation in the Challenge would create, in the sole discretion of Silicon Harlem, a real or apparent conflict of interest

*The members of an individual’s immediate family include the individual’s spouse, children and stepchildren, parents and stepparents, and siblings and stepsiblings. The members of an individual’s household include any other person that shares the same residence as the individual for at least three (3) months out of the year.

**Agents include individuals or organizations that in creating a Submission to the Challenge, are acting on behalf of, and at the direction of, a Promotion Entity through a contractual or similar relationship.

***An affiliate is: (a) an organization that is under common control, sharing a common majority or controlling owner, or common management; or (b) an organization that has a substantial ownership in, or is substantially owned by the other organization.

Application Requirements

Main requirement is a "slide presentation" of the application.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Makers must do the following to participate in the Challenge:

• Register for the Challenge on the Challenge Website by clicking the “Register for this Challenge” button. To complete registration, sign up to create a ChallengePost account, or log in with an existing ChallengePost account. There is no charge for creating a ChallengePost account. This will enable you receive important updates and access the “Enter a Submission” page.
• Create and submit a slide presentation of your idea.
• Complete and enter all of the required fields on the “Enter a Submission” page of the Challenge Website (each a “Submission”) during the Challenge Submission Period, and follow the requirements below.

Language Requirements 

All Submission materials must be in English or, if not in English, the Maker must provide an English translation of the demonstration video, text description, and testing instructions as well as all other materials submitted. 

Multiple Submissions: A Maker may submit more than one Submission, however, each Submission must be unique, as determined by Silicon Harlem and the Judges.

SDKs, APIs, & Data: Applications may integrate SDKs, APIs and data, provided the Maker is authorized to use them.

Intellectual Property: Your Submission must: (a) be your (or your team or Organization’s) original work product; (b) not violate the intellectual property rights or other rights including but not limited to copyright, trademark, patent, contract, and/or privacy rights, of any other person or entity; and (c) be publicly available under one of the approved open source licenses at http://opensource.org/licenses. A Maker may contract with a third party for technical assistance to create the Submission provided the Submission components are solely the Maker’s work product and the result of the Maker’s ideas and creativity. A Maker may submit a Submission that includes the use of other open source software, provided the Maker complies with the applicable open source licenses and, as part of the Submission, creates software that enhances and builds upon the features and functionality included in the underlying open source product utilized in the Application. By entering the Challenge you represent, warrant, and agree that your Submission meets these requirements. 

Text Description, Image, and Video Requirements 

Text Description: The text description should explain the features and functionality of your Application.

Images: The image(s) should be photographs or screenshots of your working Application. 

SUBMISSION RIGHTS

A. Maker Rights: The Maker will be credited with their work on the Submission on the Challenge Website, but will make the Application available under one of the approved open source licenses at http://opensource.org/licenses.

B. ChallengePost and Promotion Entity Rights: By entering the Challenge, you grant to ChallengePost and any other third parties acting on the ChallengePost’s behalf, a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide perpetual license to display publicly and use for promotional purposes the Submission, in perpetuity. This license includes, but is not limited to, posting or linking to the Submission on ChallengePost’s and partners’ websites and applications, including the Challenge Website, and display and promotion of the Submission in any other media, worldwide.

C. Submission Display: The following Submission components may be displayed to the public: name, description, images, video URL, website URL, open source repository URL, and team members. Other Submission materials may be viewed by the ChallengePost and the Judges for screening and evaluation.

D. Makers represent and warrant that ChallengePost and Challenge partners, including Silicon Harlem, are free to use Makers’ Submission in the manner described above, as provided or as modified by ChallengePost, without obtaining permission or license from any third party and without any compensation to Makers.

The Maker(s) that are eligible for a Prize, and whose Submissions earn the highest overall scores based on the applicable Judging Criteria, will become potential winners of that Prize.

Tie Breaker: For each Prize listed in Section 7 below, if two or more Submissions are tied, the tied Submission with the highest score in the first applicable criterion listed above will be considered the higher scoring Submission. In the event any ties remain, this process will be repeated, as needed, by comparing the tied Submissions’ scores on the next applicable criterion. If two or more Submissions are tied on all applicable criteria, the panel of Judges will vote on the tied Submissions.