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Awards
Category Descriptions
Guidelines, Fees, & Entry Instructions
Judging Criteria
Ceremony
Winners
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Beacon Awards Guidelines, Fees, and
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Listed below are the 2008 Guidelines,
Fees, and Entry Instructions.Eligibility:
Anyone may submit a qualified entry.
Qualified entries are marketing materials directed to educators. AEP
members pay a discounted entry fee. Non-members who join AEP at the time of entry
pay the member fee. Entries must have been developed for use between Jan. 1, 2006
and Dec. 31, 2007. Entries become the property of AEP and will not be returned.
Deadlines:
All entries must be submitted
electronically by midnight EST on Feb. 28, 2008, and all products must reach AEP
headquarters by Feb. 29, 2008, or they will not be judged.
Entry
Fees
| | Members | Nonmembers |
All Categories | $135 per entry | $235
per entry | Refunds
Due to the nature
of the program and the judging process, refunds will not be given. Please carefully
review all AEP criteria and guidelines before submitting an entry.
Entry Preperation
1. Complete online entry form once for
each entry. 2. Send three (3) entry samples along with
3 printouts of the submitted online form of the submitted entry form.
DO attach one copy to each entry sample. DO bundle entry
samples that have more than one component. 3. Integrated
campaign entries must be accompanied by a separate document explaining:
- The goal or mission of the overall campaign
- The intended audience
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How, where, and when the materials were used and their relationship to one another.
4.
Online entries can be paid by Visa, MasterCard, or American Express. If the entry
fee was not paid online, remit total fees in a single check in U.S. dollars made
payable to “AEP.” Payment must accompany entry. No entries will be
processed without payment. (Membership fee may be on a separate check.)
5. Include the packing list printed from the online registration.
6. Entries received after Feb. 29, 2008, will not be
considered. 7. Mail entries to: The Association of Educational
Publishers • 510 Heron Drive, Suite 201 • Logan Township, NJ 08085.
8. Send Fedex entries to: The Association of Educational
Publishers • 510 Heron Drive, Suite 201 • Swedesboro, NJ 08085. Note:
Due to the volume of entries, we cannot send individual entry confirmations.
Judging Process:
Judging panels are drawn from a national pool
of educators, writers, publishers, design experts, and marketing professionals.
The first tier of screening judges conducts an objective evaluation of all entries.
Selected entries proceed to the final judging certifying committee that reviews
and certifies up to four finalists, including a winner, in each category. The
Gold Beacon Award, this program’s most coveted honor, is selected from the
pool of category winners.
Notification:
Finalists
and non-finalists in all categories, except the Gold Beacon, are notified via
mail and email in April 2008. Notification is sent to the person specified as
the contact on the entry form.
Ceremonies:
Winners in each category are announced at the Awards luncheon on Friday, June
6, 2008, during the Educational Publishing Summit. Those unable to attend are
sent their awards.
Recognition:
Finalists
receive a certificate, winners receive a framed certificate, and the Gold Beacon
winner receives an engraved plaque to recognize their achievements. Additional
certificates, plaques, and other ancillary products are available for purchase.
Winners and finalists are encouraged to display the AEP Lamp of Learning logo
on their publications, websites, and other materials. AEP will publicize all finalists
and winners on its website and send press releases to national newspapers and
the education press.
For
more information about the AEP Awards contact awards@AEPweb.org
or call 856-241-2784.
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