Win a year's supply of educational product ($500 value)!

The Critical Thinking Co.™ invites you to show your stuff! Dazzle viewers and friends with your teaching tricks and techniques while you demonstrate one of our products in a short video. Simply film the learning moments already happening within your family or classroom to enter.

Go for learning-packed, go for funny, or go for both. It's up to you. Shoot it and submit it. Check out the list of eligible products for the video demonstration on the rules tab and our helpful director tips before proceeding. Create a 30-180 second video (3 minutes maximum) showing the incredible thinking and learning taking place while using our products. Capture that "ah-ha" moment when your child "gets it," the slanted eyebrow expression when they're pondering, joyous outbursts, or the thrill of skill mastery.

No purchase is necessary to enter the contest. Free printables and software demos are available for download if you do not already own the material.

Enter to Win! - Upload Your Video (video must be received by July 26th)
All participants receive all three levels of Dr Funster's Word Benders™ eBooks for grades 3-12+! (Valued at $23.97).

Top 10 Director Tips for Making Your Video

1. Your video must showcase a student working on an activity from one of our products (book/software/DVD/puzzles). Interaction with a teacher or parent in the video is preferred, though not required.
2. Be engaging, exciting, or cheeky. Show off your teaching skills and questioning strategies.
3. Your video must be 30-180 seconds in length.
4. Your video must be under 100MB in size.
5. Video must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. PST on July 26th.
6. You can submit up to three entries.
7. You must live in the United States to be eligible.
8. You must be at least 18 to participate.
9. Check out the list of approved products and official rules before you get started.
10. Relax, have fun with it!

Contact us at support@criticalthinking.com if you need any help!

What Do I Win?

All participants will receive all three levels of Dr Funster's Word Benders™ eBooks for grades 3-12+! (Prize value $23.97)

Five (5) Grand Prize winners will receive a $500 Gift Card from The Critical Thinking Co.™ (TCTC) and will be highlighted on the company's Web site. (Prize value $500.00)

Five contest runners up will receive a free Balance Benders™ Level 1 book and a free Mind Benders® A1 book. (Estimated prize value $26.93, includes S&H)

And, one video will receive a People’s Choice award. This award goes to the video that receives the greatest number of public votes. The producer of this video wins a $600 Gift Certificate from CriticalThinking.com. (Prize value $600.00)

Our Judges
The contest winners will be selected by our panel of judges including:

Levi Hans-Sello, Elementary Teacher, Modesto, CA
Ernesto Pacleb, High School Teacher, Salinas, CA
Saul Schulman, Marketing Director, NaturalMedicine.com
Julie Babcock, Resort Owner, Cayecasa.com
Bonnie Baker, Wife of TCTC Founder, John Baker
TCTC Executive Team (Michael Baker, TCTC President; Nile Duppstadt II, TCTC Vice President; and Kyle Brandow, TCTC Marketing and Communications)

Rules
No Purchase Necessary

The “Critical Thinking Moments” Video Contest (“Contest”) is sponsored by The Critical Thinking Co.™ (TCTC), with its principal place of business at 1069 Broadway Ave, Seaside, CA 93955 (“Sponsor” or “TCTC”). The Contest is hosted and organized by CriticalThinking.com (TCTC). Contest is void where prohibited. By entering, each entrant accepts and agrees to be bound by these Official Rules.

How to Enter

No purchase is necessary to enter or win this Contest. The Contest begins on April 22, 2010 at 5:00:00 p.m. and ends on July 26, 2010 at 11:59:59 pm PST (the “Entry Period”). Entrants may enter this Contest by visiting www.criticalthinking.com (“Site”). They will be required to register by entering a valid e-mail address. Entrants can upload their video after completing a brief entry form (providing their full name, mailing address, phone number, and name of the product being demonstrated). Video entries should capture that "ah-ha" moment when a student "gets it," the slanted eyebrow expression when they're pondering, the joyous outbursts, or the thrill of skill mastery. The video entries must demonstrate an activity from one of the eligible products while capturing the learning taking place. The videos must showcase the student interacting with the product, preferrably with an adult providing guidance.

Eligibility

This Contest is open only to legal residents of the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska but excluding U.S. territories, and entry to the Site is only open to persons of at least 18 years of age. Employees and relatives of employees of Sponsor and Organizer and any entities affiliated or related to Sponsor and Organizer ARE eligible to enter the contest, but they are not eligible to win a prize.

Prizes
 
All participants will receive all three levels of Dr Funster's Word Benders™ eBooks for grades 3-12+! (Prize value $23.97)

Eleven (11) Overall Prizes with a total approximate retail value of $3,234.65 will be awarded as follows:

Five (5) Grand Prizes
Five (5) Grand Prize winners will receive a year's supply of critical thinking materials in the form of a $500 Gift Card from The Critical Thinking Co.™ (TCTC) and will be highlighted on the company's and partner Web sites. (Prize value $500.00)

Five (5) Runners Up Prizes
Five (5) runners up will receive a free Balance Benders™ Level 1 book and a free Mind Benders® A1 book. (Estimated prize value $26.93, includes S&H)

People's Choice Prize
The creator of the video receiving the greatest number of public votes will receive a People’s Choice Award and win a $600 Gift Certificate to CriticalThinking.com. (Prize value $600.00)

Odds of winning will depend on the number of entries received. The Overall Prizes will be awarded by a panel of qualified judges selected by TCTC, based on the Judging Criteria specified below. The Overall Prizes will be awarded on or about the week of September 30th. There will be no substitutions for prizes. Prizes awarded are non-transferable and may not be exchanged or redeemed for cash. Sponsor and/or Organizer reserve the right to substitute a prize, in which case a prize of equal or greater value will be awarded. Failure to collect a prize within thirty (30) days of notification of award constitutes forfeiture of the prize. If forfeited, the prize will remain the property of TCTC. Another winner will not be selected.

Eligibile Products

Only the following materials from TCTC will be considered for the contest. If we did not include one of your favorites, we encourage you to e-mail us and let us know, we'll probably add it to the list. Any title within the following series may be used for the purpose of this "Critical Thinking Moments™ Product Demonstration Video Contest."

Critical Thinking	Language Arts
Building Thinking Skills® Mind Benders® Visual Perceptual Skill Building® Balance Benders™ Critical Thinking Books Can You Find Me? Think-A-Minutes Thinker Doodles & Half'n Half Animals	Teaching Signs for Baby Minds™ Language Smarts™ Editor in Chief® Word Roots Reading Detective® Daily Mind Builders™: Language Arts Dr. DooRiddles Novel Thinking
Math	Science
Mathematical Reasoning™ Math Detective® Balance Benders™ Scratch Your Brain® Complete the Picture Math Math Analogies	Developing Critical Thinking Through Science Science Detective® Daily Mind Builders™: Science History You Decide! - Applying the Bill of Rights to Real Cases! Daily Mind Builders™: Social Studies

Judging Criteria

Videos will be judged based on whether they meet the video creation and entry requirements, how well they follow the directive provided by TCTC, the quality of the video, and whether the video is engaging and/or effectively demonstrates the product. A panel of five (5) judges will evaluate submissions based on the judging criteria.

Videos should be 30-180 seconds long (3 minutes maximum). Videos can be shot with camera phones, digital video cameras, or any other digital moving image format. No still photo entries will be accepted.  All entries must be received by 11:59:59 pm PST on July 26, 2010. There is no cost or purchase required to enter the Site or submit a video.

Video Creation Requirements

• Acceptable source video includes sources that are not copyrighted. Participant takes responsibility that all images and soundtracks are not copyrighted material. This means, do NOT use commercial copyrighted music or images.
• Videos may not contain obscene language or content, including but not limited to: nudity, profanity, or graphic violence.
• Video must be 30 to 180 seconds long.
• Video can be in any format. Files larger than 100 MB will not be accepted.
• Videos must be submitted via the Web as instructed after registration. If you have problems uploading, please contact us at info@criticalthinking.com. If you are having problems uploading, you must contact us before the contest deadline.

Voting

The public can vote on their favorite video at www.criticalthinking.com starting on July 26, 2010 at 5:00:01 p.m. and ending on September 14, 2010 at 11:59:59 pm PST("Voting Period"). Sponsor's computer is the official time keeping device for the Contest.

Limit one (1) Vote per person per video. By submitting a vote, the visitor warrants and represents that they agree to the Official Rules. Votes must be submitted and received to the Web site during the Voting Period.

At the close of the Voting Period, the submission that receives the most votes with the highest rating will be deemed the People's Choice Winner ("People's Choice Winner"). In the unlikely event that public voting results in a tie, the tied Submissions will be re-judged by the contest Judges based on the Judging Criteria stated in the rules. Any use of robotic, macro, automatic, programmed, or like voting methods will void all such votes. Any attempt by Finalist and/or his/her family/friends to vote more than the number of times authorized herein using multiple names, email addresses, phone numbers and/or any other fraudulent mechanism, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, shall give Sponsor the right to disqualify Finalist in its reasonable discretion.

Conditions and Restrictions Apply

Your participation in this Contest, including your submission of a video to criticalthinking.com, shall be deemed to be your complete acceptance of the terms and conditions set out in these Official Rules.  Additional conditions and restrictions apply:
 

1. By submitting your contribution to the Organizer in relation to the Site you agree to and thereby waive any and all moral rights that exist in your contribution to the Site and any derivative works made there from.
2. By submitting your contribution to the Organizer in relation to the Site you represent, warrant, and undertake to Sponsor and Organizer that your contribution (i) is your own original work and that you have the sole right to submit it to the Site; (ii) does not violate in any way rights of third parties including copyright and other intellectual property rights; and (iii) does not violate any applicable laws.
3. Your contribution to the Site should not include any content whatsoever which would reasonably be understood to be defamatory, threatening, distasteful, racist, unlawful, or otherwise objectionable.
4. Sponsor and Organizer reserve the right to change these terms and conditions at any time and at its sole discretion.
5. Entrants agree to grant to Sponsor and Organizer an everlasting, royalty-free, assignable, exclusive license to use, utilize, replicate, alter, adapt, modify, publish, broadcast, translate, produce derivative works from, distribute, present, play, sublicense, and exercise all copyright and other intellectual property rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to include your contribution in other works in any media now known or later created forever. Each entrant agrees and grants Sponsor and Organizer permission to make available and display/perform and otherwise distribute entrant's name and video submission in all media in perpetuity without compensation. Except where legally prohibited, submission of an entry into this Site constitutes permission for Sponsor and Organizer to use the entrant's name, photograph, likeness, voice, address (city and province/state), and testimonials, in printed, broadcast, or new media, in perpetuity, in any manner they deem appropriate in connection with promoting the video submission itself or this Site, without further compensation in connection with this Site or the prize awarded.
6. Entrant is responsible to secure permission from all talent included in the video. Sponsor and Organizer assume no responsibility for royalties or fees associated with talent performances in the entered videos.
7. Sponsor and Organizer assume no responsibility for lost or late entries or for incomplete computer transmissions or technical failures.
8. Sponsor and Organizer reserve the right not to accept entries that are considered inappropriate for the Site.
9. Winners are subject to verification by Sponsor and Organizer, whose decisions are final and binding in all matters related to the Contest.  An entrant is not a winner of any prize until entrant’s eligibility has been verified and entrant has been notified that verification is complete. 
10. Winners will be solely responsible for any and all local, state, and federal taxes. Sponsor and Organizer will report any individual winnings over $600 (in cash or fair market value of goods or services) in a one-year period to the Internal Revenue Service. Winners will receive a Form 1099 from Sponsor or Organizer if Sponsor or Organizer reports any winnings to the Internal Revenue Service.

Limitation on Liability

1. In the event that you breach any of your representations, warranties, or undertakings contained herein, Sponsor and Organizer shall be entitled to and may seek indemnification from you for recovery of all legal fees, damages, claims, and other expenses that may be incurred by Sponsor or its affiliated entities as a result of your aforementioned breach.
2. Each entrant agrees to indemnify Sponsor from any third party claims arising from or related to that entrant's participation in the Site. By participating, entrants agree that Sponsor, Organizer involved in the development, production, implementation and distribution of this promotion and their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, service providers, and agencies, and their directors, officers, agents, employees, attorneys, and any other person or entity associated with such entities and/or promotion shall not be liable for any and all claims, damages, losses, or injuries, including any third party claims, arising from or relating to, in whole or in part, this Site, including entry and participation in this Site and acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the prizes. All entrants further agree that in the event of any third party claims, damages, losses, or injuries, arising from or relating to this Site, they will indemnify Organizer and Sponsor from any and all such claims, including the attorneys' fees related thereto. Organizer and Sponsor shall not be responsible for any technical malfunctions of the telephone network, computer online system, computer equipment, software, program malfunctions or other failures, delayed computer transactions or network connections that are human, mechanical or technical in nature, or any combination thereof, including any injury.
3. Entrants participating in this Site are liable for any copyright infringements caused by their videos.

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