Find out how to enter Ice Edge here - just click on the links below.
- So, is it easy to enter?
- Registration
- Tell me more about the prize first!
- What will the judges want to know?
- Who?s around if we want help or get stuck?
- How do we tell the judges about our project?
- Who do we send it to? What's the deadline?
- What happens when the judges get judging?
- What if we win?
- Terms and conditions of entry
The rules are you have to be 13 to 17 years old and a resident of the United Kingdom.
Get together a team of between two and four people and register.
Develop an idea together to protect our environment. Choose any subject ? you can be as bold as you like. See the Ideas page for inspiration but remember we want your own original ideas!
Submit your final entry to Ice Edge through this site, by post, or by email (read on for details). If you email or upload your entry, it's a good idea to send us a disc as well, to make sure we receive it safely. We accept word documents, pdfs and powerpoint presentations.
Registration is simple - you just need to decide on a team name and have the names of each team member to hand. Click here now to register.
Don't forget to include a telephone number and email address with your entry - otherwise we can't contact you if you are a winner!
So, what are you waiting for?
It's an all expenses paid trip to the Arctic next summer for forty lucky winners.
Interesting fact: the 'armed polar bears' in Phillip Pullman's exciting trilogy, The Dark Materials, came from Svalbard. You can read more about this on: http://www.philip-pullman.com
- Why is it a good idea and how did you investigate it?
- Who is going to use it?
- Why is it special?
- How would you tell people about the benefits?
- Which celebrities you would want to use if you advertised it?
- How would you sell your product/idea and what would it cost?
- How have you worked together and made the most of each others strengths and talents?
- How have you worked with business representatives?
Working in teams helps improve your ideas, so test out your plans on your teachers, local experts and businesses. The Education Business Partnership www.nebpn.org can help, so can our own Ideas page, where there?s lots of top stuff, but remember it?s new ideas we want.
You can also use our Links page and FAQ section. And don't forget about Your Questions, Your Answers, where you can pose any question you like to the people that use this site. You may even find yourself answering someone else's question!
- Write it all down and post it to us
- Make a
- Booklet
- CD-ROM
- PowerPoint Demo
- Website
- Video
- Scale model
- Prototype
- Put it as an email attachment or upload it directly to the website once you?ve registered.
Don?t forget that keeping a diary, or updating your team page online - once you?ve registered - will help you when it comes time to entering your idea.
The deadline for all entries is 16 March 2007.
Edge has divided the United Kingdom into regions and will choose teams from each region to go to the national final.
Please make sure you tell us your phone number and email address when you register so that we can contact you if you make it into the finals.
If you are chosen as a finalist you will be invited to the national finals where you will have to present your idea to a judging panel.
Lucky you! Svalbard here you come. One team from each region will be announced at the end of Finals Day. We will be giving more details later on about dates, times and where you will be staying for an experience of a lifetime.
And don?t worry about the costs ? all travel and accommodation expenses will be paid including the night before you fly for each team.
