Apps for Good Showcase Rules 2023

The Apps for Good Showcase is our annual celebration of young entrepreneurs changing their world through technology. These Rules set out the eligibility, entry and participation requirements for the Apps for Good Showcase. Apps for Good is registered in England and Wales at C/O RPG Crouch Chapman, 5th Floor, 14-16 Dowgate Hill, London, EC4R 2SU. (Company Registration Number 6560779, UK Registered Charity Number 1133656.)

To be eligible for the Showcase:

• Any individual or Team, must have completed an Apps for Good course during the current academic year, this includes Home Study courses;
• Any individuals on the Team must be no more than 18 (eighteen) years of age at the beginning of the current academic year.

The Showcase is not open to a Team with any member who is:

• over 18 (eighteen) years of age at the start of the academic year
• related to, or living in the same household as, any employees, independent contractors, officers and/or directors of Apps for Good or the advertising, promotion and fulfilment agencies or legal advisors of Apps for Good.

The Showcase entry period commences on the 21st of November 2022 and ends at 11:59 p.m. GMT on 21 April 2023 (Entry Period). In order to enter the Showcase, student teams must complete and submit the online competition entry form. Only one Entry may be submitted for each individual or Team.

By submitting an Entry the Team confirms that:

• all parts of that Entry are the Team's work or validly licensed to the Team and that no materials submitted to Apps for Good will breach any law or infringe the rights (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights) of any third party; and
• subject to any third party rights, each member of the Team has consented to grant to Apps for Good a perpetual, free-of-charge, worldwide licence to use the Team name and any intellectual property rights in the Entry (including in any app prototype) for non-commercial purposes (including in any Apps for Good publicity materials, to operate and promote the Competition and/or as part of the Apps for Good Course Materials).

By submitting an Entry, you agree that we can send email notifications to the Educator from Apps for Good at your school or your parent/guardian regarding the status of the Showcase and related information. It will be the Educator/Parent/Guardian’s responsibility to pass information onto the Team.

Apps for Good is not responsible for:

• the failure of any Entry to be received by Apps for Good due to technical problems, human error, traffic congestion or unavailable network connections on the internet or at any website, or any combination thereof; or
• any failed, incorrect, inaccurate, incomplete or delayed Entry, whether caused by the sender or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or used in the Showcase.

All Entries are refined down to those selected to continue to the Finalist stage (we call this process Shortlisting). During Shortlisting, Entries will be reviewed by our community of volunteers. Experts and representatives from our Sponsor companies, with support from Apps for Good. Applications: will also be reviewed by representatives of Apps for Good. At the end of Shortlisting, entries will be selected to progress to the next round (the Finalists). All Finalists will be asked to submit a video pitch to be shared with a Judging Panel. The Judging Panel could include representatives from our Sponsors, as well as senior professionals from technology and business.

Apps for Good reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to select a Winner of the ‘People’s Choice Award’ (PCA Winner). In previous years, the PCA Winner has been the Finalist Team that received the highest number of votes through a public, online voting process. We may though, at our sole discretion, change how we select one or more PCA Winners at any time or not select a PCA Winner in any particular year.

If a Showcase entrant is unable to submit the extra work for our Judging Panel, Apps for Good reserves the right to remove its Entry from the Competition and replace it with another Entry.

If a Team, any member of a Team, an Education Partner or an Educator breaches any of these Rules at any stage of the Competition, Apps for Good has the right to withdraw the relevant Entry/Entries from the Competition. Apps for Good reserve the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, modify or suspend the Competition for any reason.

By submitting an Entry, you agree that Apps for Good shall not be liable to you for any loss or damage suffered by you under or in connection with these Rules.

These Rules and any disputes arising in connection with them or the Competition shall be governed by English law and any such dispute shall be decided by the English courts.