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Official contest rules
How entries qualify, how coaching and judging work, how finalists and winners are decided, and what is awarded.
Being finalized. This page is not the document. It shows what the document will cover while an attorney writes the final wording. Students can create a basic account, explore and plan now. Nobody can upload, get coaching, submit an entry or publish until the document has been reviewed, approved and published here.
An attorney is writing the official rules, and the director confirms every number first. Nothing is in force until they are published here.
What this document will cover
- Paths: AI-Assisted, Cover, and Original, one per entry
- Entering for free, and the optional Artist Support Package
- Tries: one submission on the free entry, up to three tries with the Artist Support Package
- Coaching, and the qualification standard
- The 15-Second Impact Message
- Publishing: the student's own channel, with permission given one video at a time
- Votes: one per person per entry, and nothing that can be bought
- Boost Points and the Finale, and the one place they touch an outcome
- College savings support and the threshold that unlocks each boost
- Disqualification
- Appeals
In the meantime
How we protect students and what a parent needs to know describe how the product actually behaves today, in plain language. Where something is not settled, those pages say so.