Contest rules
Eligibility
You are eligible to enter if you meet the following requirements at the time of entry:
- You are a hobbyist or professional in the field of technology development and
- If you are considered a minor in your place of residence, then you should ask your parent’s or legal guardian’s permission prior to submitting an entry into this challenge.
- You are not involved in the execution or administration of this Challenge; and
- You are not an immediate family member of (parent, sibling, spouse/domestic partner, child) or household member of an Electromaker or Microchip employee.
- Only one competition entry per member allowed.
- Projects cannot have been selected as a winner in any other contest.
- Project owners must be granted permission and / or obtained licences for any submitted materials.
Requirements
To be eligible for judging, an entry must meet the following content/technical requirements:
- You must create a free Electromaker account and register as a participant for this contest.
- Your original idea must be submitted via the idea form.
- Projects should be submitted in the English language.
- The Microchip AVR-IoT WG Development Board must be used as the platform for your project.
- Projects must be the work of the submitting individual (i.e. no plagiarism).
- Submissions must be entered by the deadline outlined in the content brief.
- Participants agree their project details may be shared and promoted for the purposes of marketing by the competition organisers.
Prizes and giveaways
- The competition organisers will make available a maximum of 100 free Microchip AVR-IoT WG Development Boards to participants on a first come first served basis.
- One tool per completed competition entry.
- Once the 100 boards have been given away, no further boards will be offered.
- No cash alternative will be offered.
- The following prizes are being offered:
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- First Prize:
- 1 x Microchip MASTERs 2019 in one of the following locations: USA/ Europe / South America / China / India / Taiwan / S.Korea.
- Second Prize & Third Prize:
- 1 x Hardware bundle:
- Curiosity PIC32MZEF Development Board
- MPLAB® Snap Debugger
- Arduino Uno Wifi
- 5 x connectors and shields:
- MIKROE-1581
- MIKROE-2670
- MIKROE-2379
- MIKROE-924
- MIKROE-2544
- Each prize will be accompanied by an Electromaker swag bag