Junior: Students in Years 7 and 8 may enter in the Intermediate section if they wish to.
Intermediate: Years 9, 10 and 11 may enter in the Intermediate or Senior sections, but not in both.
Senior: Students in Years 12 and 13 may only enter in the Senior sections.
Multiple Entries: Students may lodge an entry in more than one category or section, as long as they abide by the rules above.
Joint Entries: Permitted in Junior Section only. Junior entries are restricted to the marked categories.
Age Restriction: Students who enter must be attending intermediate or secondary school and be 19 years of age or under on 31st August 2009.

Proof of Original Work
The design and presentation must be the entrant's own original work. Submissions must be accompanied by an official note signed by a Head of Department, or Principal/Deputy Principal, confirming that the submission is the students' own work.

The verification must read:

verification

Entry Protection
Whilst all entries will be treated with care, entries will only be accepted on a ‘no liability’    basis. Entrants should arrange their own insurance of submissions if they require it.
• Entrants should ensure that their intellectual property is protected to the level they require.    How this is done could be part of the research phase.
• All entrants agree to the Young Designer Awards Trust Inc. using any or all of their work in its    publicity and development of the awards.

Definitions
An entry is defined as a “student registering interest, on the entry form and accompanied by the appropriate entry fee, in presenting a submission in a section for judging. This will be acknowledged by the Trust by the issue of a code number”. A submission is defined as “an entrant’s work submitted for judging”.

Judging
• The judges reserve the right not to make an award should they decide it would be
    inappropriate to do so.
• The judges reserve the right to have the top four, three-dimensional entries of Fashion,
    Electronics and Visual Arts categories freighted to the judges at a designated venue.
• The judge’s decision will be final and no correspondence may be entered into.
• Judging of all finalists work is subject to another round of judging for final placing.

Sending Entries & Submissions
The closing date for the entry forms and the accompanying fee is Friday 4th June 2010.
Submissions must be received between 19th July and 5.00pm on the 6th August 2010.
Do not send your submissions before or after the above dates.
For 2010 the Young Designer Awards Trust requests that all submissions be scanned and sent by email or posted on computer disks.

We will publish confirmed details of the entry process, fees, dates and the format for sending submissions when the new management for YDA 2010 is in place.

If you have any queries please
Email: admin@yda.org.nz
Or for urgent queries only please:  phone (03) 3770803