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The Create-a-Greeting Card Scholarship contest is open to all high school, college and university students enrolled during the time period of the contest in an academic program designed to conclude with the awarding of a diploma or a degree..

Eligibility

• This contest is open to all high school, college and university students enrolled during the time period of the contest in an academic program designed to conclude with the awarding of a diploma or a degree.
• This contest is open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia, as well as American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. International students who have a student visa to attend school in the United States are considered legal residents and eligible.
• Applicants must be 14 years of age or older at the time of entry, unless prohibited by law.
• Employees of Sponsor, their family members, and persons living in the same household as employees, or their family members are not eligible.
• No purchase is necessary to enter the Create-A-Greeting-Card Scholarship: gallerycollection.com’s annual $10,000 contest to create a Christmas card, holiday card, birthday card or all-occasion greeting card.
• Void where prohibited by law. The Contest is governed by U.S. law and is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
• One application allowed per person. If it is determined that a person has entered with more than one identity, all of that person’s entries will be disqualified.
• No prize will be awarded to applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements. All information on the application must be accurate and complete.

Awards

ONLINE ENTRY ONLY

Contest participants should register on the https://www.gallerycollection.com/greeting-cards-scholarship.htm. The online application must include an original work of art or photograph, the applicant’s first and last name, date of birth, phone number, mailing address, e-mail address, grade level, student ID #, name of school currently attending and school’s website address. The contest is limited to one entry per person. If a person enters multiple times, all of their entries will be disqualified.

JUDGING CRITERIA OVERALL AWARDS

There will be one (1) Scholarship Prize of $10,000 awarded (referred to as “the Scholarship”) and one $1,000 prize awarded to the winner’s school. The Sponsor employs several experts in the area of Greeting Card Designs. A panel of objective judges selected by the Sponsor will go through the entries on a monthly basis and select approximately 100 designs per month that will be posted to The Gallery Collection’s Facebook page for voting. (Not every design is chosen to be posted for voting.) 

Voters will be able to vote once per day. The top ten (10) designs with the most votes will automatically move onto the finalist round. In addition to the top 10 entries from each month with the most votes from our voting page, the panel of Judges will also have the opportunity to “save” at least one (1) additional design per month to move onto the finalist round. After the Submission Period Ends the top 5 entries with the most votes received from the monthly voting sessions along with five (5) entries that the panel of judges have selected will be the official Top ten (10) finalists. The panel of judges will then select a winner from the top 10 finalists. The panel of judges will score all eligible Contest Entries based on the Judging Criteria below and will select the Scholarship recipient on or about May 1, 2024, at Prudent Publishing Company, Inc., 65 Challenger Road, PO Box 150, Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660. The decision of the judges is final. The following Judging Criteria will be used to determine the Scholarship recipient: 1. Overall aesthetic appeal 2. Quality of execution 3. Creativity and Originality 4. Successful incorporation of design elements 5. Appropriateness for use as a greeting card 6. Attractiveness to The Gallery Collection’s corporate and consumer customers 7. Suitability as a design in Prudent’s Gallery Collection greeting card line.

The use of automated, programmed, robotic, third-party software or website to enter or vote is prohibited and individuals engaging in such practices will be disqualified.

TIMING

The Contest begins at 12:01:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET") June 7, 2023, and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. ET, March 1, 2024. Applications submitted after March 1, 2024, are not eligible. Incomplete submissions or submissions sent outside the Contest Entry Period will not be considered.