Rules
The Competition is open to all schools in Oxfordshire, and will be run according to the following
rules:
- 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.
- Your entry must be received by the closing date of 30 April, 2007.
- Your entry must be sponsored by a member of staff from your school.
- Your entry should be
a set of web pages with a theme relevant to your school activities, together with
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).
- The web site does not need to have been created specially for this competition,
but it should be original work created recently.
- The site should
illustrate the effective use of the Internet, but also show you are aware of the
potential risks. (For background, see: http://schools.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=is)
- It must be possible to view all the pages in approximately 10 minutes.
- 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 Monday 19th March, 2007.
- Online sites should be available 24 hours a day and preferably should not be password protected.
- 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.
- 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.
- A school may submit several entries, but a school cannot win more than one prize
in the same category.
- The judges reserve the right to discuss with pupils involved in any entries to ensure
the rules of the competition have been maintained fairly.
- Other than the above, the judges will not enter into any communication with the
entrant regarding a particular entry.
- The judging panel is made up of volunteers from the BCS organising committee, and
their decision is final.
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