Now’s the time to enter the 2010 AUIP photo contest! Alumni, we hope you’ve identified your most awe-inspiring photograph to submit because our contest sponsors have donated some seriously desirable prizes.

Of today, September 1, 2010, AUIP alumni can enter the 2010 Photo Contest: It’s the Ultimate Field Trip! The photo contest is open to all AUIP alumni who have studied abroad on an AUIP program. Photo submissions must be the entrant’s original work and must have been taken abroad during an AUIP program in Antarctica, Australia, Fiji or New Zealand.

All photos must be submitted to the AUIP Facebook fan page by 9:00 a.m., EST on Thursday, September 30, 2010. If you aren’t a fan of our page yet, then check us out on Facebook. A panel of judges will be appointed by the photo contest coordinator to evaluate photo submissions based on originality, creativity, impact and artistic merit.

Be sure to read all the contest rules in the Notes section of our Facebook fan page or in our website News section. Any entrants who do not adhere to the rules are subject to disqualification.

AUIP will award First, Second and Third place winning photographers with prizes from our contest sponsors:

First: $500 plane ticket voucher from StudentUniverse, 4 Guidebooks from Lonely Planet

Second: Backpack from Arc’teryx, Headlamp from Petzl, 4 Guidebooks from Lonely Planet

Third: Headlamp from Petzl, 4 Guidebooks from Lonely Planet