RULES AND CONDITIONS
By entering the Digital Art Competition, you are hereby accepting the following competition rules and conditions.
- Eligible Participants
This competition is open to ALL primary, middle and secondary students attending state and non-state schools including LearningCentres and Education Resource Centres.
A student may submit only ONE artwork.
Only individual submissions are allowed.
Forms of Digital Art may include: Computer Graphics, Pixel Art,Digital Photography, Digital Collage, Digital Painting.
RULES AND CONDITIONS
Digital Art Competition
- Digital Art Works
The work submitted for the competition should be based on one of the following themes: Lines
Still Life
Life at school
Entries must be original work and must not have been previously published or entered in other competitions.
Artworks featuring known persons, organisations or brand names will not be accepted.
Digital Art must be submitted with no watermarks.
Participants retain the copyright to the artworks submitted.
Participants should confirm that each person illustrated in the submitted work has granted permission to be portrayed as shown.
- Submission
All entries must be submitted to the email addresses as per below: Year 1 to Year 6: daniela.zerafa@ilearn.edu.mt
Year 7 to Year 11: clint.gerald.attard@ilearn.edu.mt
Entries should be submitted by not later than Friday 22nd March 2024, till 16:00.
The file name containing the Digital Art submission must include the student’s Name and Surname, Class, College/School and chosen Theme. Example: Mark BorgYr2_1Zabbar PrimaryLines or
MariaZarbYr7_5StMargaretCollegeMSStillLife or
AlanGattYr10_3StGorgPrecaCollegeSSLifeAtSchool.
The applicant is giving permission that his/her name, and photos of him/her and of the Digital Art, may be published on the Ministry for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation website and social media, and other media.
- Selection Process
Participating artworks will be divided into FOUR categories according to the age of the student: Group A: Year 1 to Year 3
Group B: Year 4 to Year 6
Group C: Year 7 to Year 8
Group D: Year 9 to Year 11
A panel of experts in the field of digital art will judge the presented work.
The entries will be judged according to the following criteria: overall impact
relevancy to the category topic
composition and arrangement
technical ability
originality
The winner of each section will be selected through a fair and impartial process by a panel of judges appointed by the organisers. All decisions by the judging panel are final.
- Announcement of Prize-Winners
Winners will be announced through a circular mentioning names of winners, class and respective schools/colleges, on the week starting 27th May 2024.
Prizes will be given to those who place first, second, and third in each category.
All participants will be presented with a Certificate of Participation from the Ministry for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation.
The winning works, as well as a selection of other entries, will be exhibited on the Ministry for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation media platforms and others.