Competition Rules - General

The following rules apply to all competitions. Additional rules apply for each competition.

• Entries in all categories must contain sufficient technical, scientific, medical, or similar content to qualify as technical communication. Entries must have been produced or substantially revised within 24 months preceding September 1 of the current year. Entries must have been originally prepared for and accepted for publication by a client, employer, or publisher.
  
  
• The competition organizers reserve the right to reject any entry for any reason and refund the entry fee.
  
  
• Entries must be suitable for public display. Entries that contain classified or proprietary information or that violate copyright laws are not acceptable. It is the responsibility of the submitter, and not of STC, to determine that entries do not contain classified or proprietary information and that the holder of all copyrights has granted permission for the entry's submission. Neither STC nor anyone associated with the competitions can be held responsible for loss of or damage to an entry.
  
  
• Materials prepared for STC purposes are not eligible for entry in the competition. Examples of these materials include STC Publications books; articles for Intercom, Tieline, and Technical Communication; and chapter and special interest group (SIG) Web sites, brochures, and newsletters. Chapter and SIG publicity materials can be entered in the STC public relations competition. Chapter and SIG newsletters can be entered in the STC newsletter competition.
  
  
• Multilingual entries are acceptable, but one of the languages must be English. All entries are judged in English.
  
  
• An entry must not have been entered in a previous STC competition and may be entered in only one local or regional online communication, technical art, or technical publications competition.
  
  
• However, the same material may be entered in the technical publications, online communication, and technical art competitions. For example, a manual entered in the technical publications competition is eligible for entry in one of several technical art categories. The manual itself can be entered in the manual/book design category; a selected graphic is eligible for entry in the appropriate mechanical or interpretative illustration category; or the cover might be entered in the cover design category. If you do this, you must submit separate entry forms, entry fees, and three copies of the entry for each competition.
  
  
• An entry may be entered in only one category within a competition. For example, a piece of technical art could not be entered into both the "packaging design" and the "promotional materials design" categories of the technical art competition. Duplicate entries are disqualified. Judges may re-categorize an entry to a more suitable category than the one in which it was submitted.
  
  
• Within a single category, only one entry from the same contributors and from the same parent organization may be submitted, except when the entries are on significantly different topics. Entries that substantially duplicate other entries are not eligible
  
  
• The submitter (often a superior in the contributors' organization) must certify that the entry represents the actual work of the contributors named on the entry form and that the entry has been cleared for submission. The submitter must also certify that the copyright holder permits the submission of the entry. (Note that the submitter receives official correspondence having to do with the entry. The submitter is therefore responsible for all communication with the contributors about the entry and for distributing any awards.)
  
  

Participation Fees:

• The participation fee for each entry per competition is Rs. 500-. STC India Chapter offers a 50% discount for student entries. If the same entry is submitted for different competitions, the participation fee has to be paid for each competition.
  
  
• The participation fee must be paid through cheque or demand draft payable to "India Chapter STC" at Bangalore. Please add Rs. 50/- for outstation cheques.
  
  
• Winners of the chapter competition will have to bear the STC-specified competition fee for participating in the STC International Competitions.