Skids on the Loose
Photo Contest Rules
Who is eligible to enter?
- The Skids on the Loose Photo Contest is open to Skidmore students and alumni.
Contest dates
- Request your Skids today!
- Skids will be passed out on campus to students / mailed to Alumni on December 14th.
- All photo entries must be submitted by midnight Friday, January 25, 2013, for consideration.
- Starting January 27th, vote for your favorite Skids on the Loose in each of the 6 categories by midnight January 31st.
- Contest winners announced February 1st.
Photo categories
- CTM Skids - Show Skids having a Skidmore experience -- people, places, classes -- in a creative way.
- Skids @ Work - Put Skids to work, whether it be out in the garden, or at your desk.
- Skids Spirit - Deck Skids out in the Yellow and Green and show your Skidmore pride!
- Skids to the Extreme - Maybe it's the hottest place, the coldest place, the highest place, or maybe it's whitewater rafting, mountain climbing or street bike racing!
- Sightseeing Skids - Skids can't wait to see the sights! Take him on a tour of a foreign country or even your home town!
- Photobomb Skids - Skids is a little mischievous, and likes to sneak into peoples pictures. Get your best Skids' photobomb, and you could be the winner of this category!
Don't have your own stuffed Skids? Download your own Digi-Skids to add to your photo!
How do I submit a photo?
Post your photo one of the four ways below. Be sure to let us know which category your picture is being submitted for!
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- Post your picture to the Skidmore College Facebook Page
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- Tweet your picture using the hash tag: #SkidsOnTheLoose
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- Post your picture on Instagram and include the hash tag: #SkidsOnTheLoose
- PLEASE NOTE: If your account is private we are UNABLE to see your pictures and include you in the contest! Please submit your photos one of the other three ways or make your account public for the duration of the contest.
- Follow Skidmore and tag us in your Skids photos! @skidmorecollege
- Post your picture on Instagram and include the hash tag: #SkidsOnTheLoose
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- Email your photos to alumaff@skidmore.edu
Questions?
Contact Jessica Giles in Alumni Affairs and College Events.
Send-a-Skids
Want to spread the joy of hanging out with Skids? Why not pass him along to a fellow Skiddie to add to Skids' wonderful winter break! (Optional and at your own expense.)
What do I win?
You're all winners! You now have your very own Skids to love and cherish for the rest of his days.
Each category will have a "people's choice" winner - 6 (six) total winners. Each winner will receive great Skidmore gear donated by Alumni Affairs and College Events.
Entries
- Photos must be the original work of the entrant. They must not plagiarize from anyone or infringe a copyright or trademark, violate anybody’s rights, and not be libelous or otherwise unlawful or misleading.
- In submitting this photo, you grant Skidmore College a perpetual, nonexclusive, world-wide, royalty free, sub-licensable license to your submission, which includes without limitation the right for Skidmore College to use, copy, transmit, excerpt, publish, distribute, and publicly display the photo in any form or media now known or hereinafter developed. Photos that have been entered into other contests, or have been published elsewhere (newspapers, magazines, online, etc.) are not eligible.
- Photos may not include a watermark or other mark indicating photographer's identity.
- Photos must be digital.
- All photo entries will become property of Skidmore College and can be used for at any time.
- All submissions should meet a standard of taste and propriety; photos that do not will not be considered.
