With over $3,000 worth of prizes up for grabs, the AUIP Photo Contest is better than ever to enter. Our amazing sponsors, StudentUniverse, Lowepro, Lychee Tree Holiday Apartments, Eye to Eye Marine Encounters, Hexagon International, South Sea Cruises, Abel Tasman Kayaks, Maori Tours Kaikoura, Lonely Planet and EvoShield, have ensured this year’s winners of the 2012 Photo Contest: Discovering the World Abroad will be rewarded with everything from plane ticket vouchers to video cameras to outdoor gear.
Be sure to enter your photo on our AUIP Facebook fan page by September 14 in 
accordance with these contest details and rules:
Eligibility
The 2012 AUIP Photo Contest is open to all AUIP alumni who have studied abroad on an AUIP program. Alumni who entered previous AUIP photo contests are eligible to enter again this year with new photos never previously submitted for an AUIP contest.
Rules
Photo submissions must be the entrant’s original work. Photos must have been taken abroad during an AUIP program. Photos cannot be digitally modified or enhanced. The contest contains two categories this year: Local Culture and Memorable Places. Each entrant is limited to entering one photo in each category (i.e. one photo for Local Culture and one photo for Memorable Places). AUIP reserves the right to exclude any photos it deems to be inappropriate. All photos submitted can be used by AUIP in a number of places, such as the AUIP website, posters and slide shows. All photos must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday, September 14, 2012.
Submission
Two Categories:
Local Culture (click here for relevant example from 2011)
Memorable Places (click here for relevant example from 2011)
Review the contest rules outlined above, and then upload a photo to the AUIP Facebook fan page. To do so, on the AUIP fan page wall, post a photo (second button from left saying, “Photo/Video”) with a caption. Your caption should include: category being entered, photo title, your name, AUIP program and year, and home university.
Caption example: Local Culture, Making friends in Votua Village, Joe Smith, Fiji 2012, University of Florida.
Judging & Awards
Awards will be given for First, Second and Third places and People’s Choice Awards in both categories, Local Culture and Memorable Places. For the People’s Choice Awards, the photo in each category with the most ‘Like’s will win the prize. Entrants are encouraged to have friends and family ‘Like’ their entered photo(s) to increase the chances of winning this award. The photo contest coordinator will count the total number of ‘Like’s for each photo entered on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. EST to determine the People’s Choice winners.
All winners will be announced on Wednesday, September 19, 2012. A panel of judges will be appointed by the photo contest coordinator to evaluate photo submissions according to the following criteria: (1) Originality, (2) Creativity, (3) Impact, and (4) Artistic Merit.
Prizes
The following prizes will be provided to each category (Local Culture and Memorable Places):
First Place: StudentUniverse $300plane ticket voucher donated by StudentUniverse plus a Lowepro Versapack 200 AW backpack (valued at $80) donated by Lowepro
Second Place: REI $200 gift card donated by Lychee Tree Holiday Apartments and Eye to Eye Marine Encounters in Australia
Third Place: Patagonia torrentshell jacket (valued at $130) donated by Hexagon International in Fiji
People’s Choice Award: Local Culture will receive: MacPac jacket (valued at $250) donated by Abel Tasman Kayaks plus an authentic greenstone necklace (valued at $50) donated by Maori Tours Kaikoura in New Zealand
People’s Choice Award: Memorable Places will receive: Kodak Playsport video camera (valued at $100) donated by South Sea Cruises in Fiji plus an UGG Australia $200 gift certificate for luxury sheepskin classic tall boots
All Winners receive: EvoShield performance shirt and flatbill cap (valued at $50) donated by EvoShield & four Lonely Planet guidebooks (valued at $100) on Antarctica, Australia, Fiji and New Zealand donated by Lonely Planet
