Competition Rules

The Competition is open to all schools in Oxfordshire, and will be run according to the following rules:

  1. All work must have been done by students aided only by Parents or Teachers in the manner normally applied to all other school course work.
  2. Your entry must be received by the closing date of Friday 13 May, 2005.
  3. Your entry must be sponsored by a member of staff from your school.
  4. Your entry must be a web site linked to your coursework, preferably with a local theme, and a brief description of how the site was built (see Marking). It could be a complete web site or a self contained subset of a larger web site (for example your school's web site).
  5. The web site does not need to have been created specially for this competition, but it should be original work created recently.
  6. The site should conform to the guidelines for schools published on the DfES Superhighway Safety site. See "Safe and effective school web sites" at http://safety.ngfl.gov.uk/schools/.
  7. It must be possible to view all the pages in approximately 10 minutes.
  8. You may submit the entry in the form of a URL linking to a live site or on floppy disks or a CD. The submission form will be available online from Friday 18 March, 2005.
  9. Online sites should be available 24 hours a day and should not be password protected.
  10. The judges may use any of the popular browsers to view your site, specifically Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Opera. You may, if you wish, include code which exploits features of a particular browser, but if you do, you should make sure that users of other browsers have an alternative way to access the same information.
  11. If you know how to, you may enhance your site with javascript and Java applets, but you should not require users to install proprietary tools or plugins.
  12. A school may submit several entries, but a school cannot win more than one prize in the same category.
  13. The judges reserve the right to discuss with pupils involved in any entries to ensure the rules of the competition have been maintained fairly.
  14. Other than the above, the judges will not enter into any communication with the entrant regarding a particular entry.
  15. The judging panel is made up of volunteers from the BCS organising committee, and their decision is final.