Genesis Terms & Conditions
The Genesis Contest is open to all 6rd - 8th-grade students at Catholic Elementary Schools in Minnesota.
The contest will be run by CSCOE.
By entering the Contest the Contestants accept these Terms and Conditions together with any specific instructions and terms for the Contest.
We may cancel or amend the Contest, Contest Information, or these Terms and Conditions without prior notice. Any changes will be posted either within the Contest Information or these Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions were last updated.
Our decision in all matters to do with the Content will be final.
Entry
The Contest opens on February 15, 2024. The closing time and date for receipt of entries is February 29, 2024.
Contestants are free to submit one entry.
To enter the Contest, Contestants must do the following:
Projects
Individual students, or student teams of no more than four, will first submit a pre-recorded video pitch of 3-5 minutes and a Venn diagram. Submissions will be reviewed and scored by a panel of judges from the entrepreneurship and business community.
A Contestant’s Video entries must be entirely original to the Contestant.
Entries must be completed in accordance with the entry process set out above. No other method of entry will be accepted. Entries that do not meet these criteria may not be considered.
Entries will not be complete until Contestants have uploaded their video entry and accepted these Terms and Conditions. We reserve the right to disqualify any entries submitted and/or finalized after the Contest has closed.
All video entries will be subject to moderation. We and/or their agents have absolute discretion to accept or reject any video entry and to remove any video entry already accepted without giving reasons for the decision. We may in particular refuse to upload any video entry for the following reasons:
By entering the Contest Contestants warrant that all information submitted by them is true, current, and complete. Contestants also warrant that they are the copyright owners of their video entries which must be original works and must not infringe the intellectual property rights, privacy, or any other rights of a third party.
By entering the Contest, Contestants understand and agree that:
Any entries which are incomplete, incorrect, inaudible, incomprehensible, may be void.
In the event of any fault, mistake, misunderstanding, or dispute concerning the correctness or acceptability of the entry, or the operation of any part of the Contest, or the interpretation of these Terms and Conditions, the decision we make shall be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
We will not be liable to reimburse any expenses incurred in entering the Contest.
We reserve the right to disqualify any Contestants and/or entries that it believes have not been made in compliance with these Terms and Conditions or to disqualify any Contestant found to have tampered with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or to be acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to threaten, abuse or harass any other person.
Finalists
The Finalists' first names and schools may be published.
We reserve the right to select an alternative Finalist in the event that a Finalist is unable to be contacted.