SCHOTT North America Innovation Challenge: Rules, Terms, and Conditions 2024-2025

I. RULES AND PARTICIPATION

ELIGIBILITY:

The Innovation Challenge is open to 1) any student (13 to 18 years of age) currently enrolled in a public or private high school within the following US states: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Indiana, New York, Kentucky, and Arizona, or 2) any student residing in the US that has a parent, guardian, or grandparent actively employed at a US SCHOTT* site.

Authorization from a parent or legal guardian is required on behalf of all students who participate in the Challenge that are under the age of 18.

Up to three individual entries are permitted (teams are prohibited). No purchase or payment of any kind is required to enter or win the Challenge or any prize. The Challenge is considered a game of skill and shall be governed by these Rules, Terms, and Conditions.

Registration and submissions must be completed by the due date referenced below using the attached form. A separate completed form is required for each entry.

*For purposes of this document, SCHOTT consists of SCHOTT North America, Inc., SCHOTT Pharma USA, Inc., and SCHOTT Minifab, LLC.

 

Step 1: Submit Your Idea

Considering the common challenges that any home or school faces (i.e. efficiency, safety, cleanliness) create new concepts for your home or school using glass to improve quality of life, solve a common problem, or introduce a new idea that can be integrated into either setting.

In 250 words or less, submit a design solution and explain how your glass concept will work. This can include glass on its own, or glass as a component of your solution considering how it can improve quality of life, such as enhancing productivity, comfort, design, or creativity.

Be sure to answer the following questions within your summary.

  1. What is your innovation? How does it work?
  2. What is the problem your product or service will solve?
  3. How does it solve an issue or improve our everyday lives?
  4. Who are your customers and why will they buy your product or service?
  5. Who is your competition and how will your product be better than the competitors?
    (optional)

The judges will review all entries and rate them based on the following criteria: grammar and articulation, innovation originality, clear and concise answering of the 4/5 (5th being optional) questions within the survey, as well as the passion for the innovation. The top three students with the highest scores amongst all the judges will be selected as our finalists.

Any entries that include inappropriate or offensive content or that violate any applicable laws will be automatically disqualified.

 

Step 2: Pitch Your Idea

The top three finalists will be selected in mid-February and invited to attend a virtual meeting where you will have the opportunity to pitch your innovation to the judges. To learn more about the judges, see the “Meet the Judges” section at www.schott.com/en-us/schott-innovation-challenge-2024.

The live presentation sessions will consist of the following:

  • Five-minute pitch presentation of your innovation.
  • Five-minute question and answer session with the judges.
  • Judging period, after all presentations have commenced.

The judges will evaluate pitches based on articulation, preparation, creativity/design, and usefulness of the innovation to identify the students who will be placed as the first, second, and third-place winners.

Slides and/or visuals are highly recommended during the presentation. Presentations should focus on the problem/solution, customers, and competition. Additional information will be shared with the three finalists once they have been selected.

 

Step 3: Win Prizes

First Prize = $1,000 Visa gift card and award
Second Prize = $500 Visa gift card and award
Third Prize = $250 Visa gift card and award

These prizes will be awarded to the student, school officials, or to the parent/guardian that executed the consent form on behalf of the winning participant.

 

TIMELINE:
  • Registration Opens: October 1, 2024
  • Submission Deadline: December 15, 2024, at 11:59 PM EST.
  • Top 3 Finalist announced: February 2025

Innovations developed by the registered contestants should be submitted at the website www.schott.com/en-us/schott-innovation-challenge-2024.

Parents/legal guardians must assist participants under the age of 18 with Challenge submissions and the form must be fully executed by both the participant and their parent/legal guardian.

Results: February 2025, Day & Time TBD
The top 3 participants will be invited to present their innovations to the SCHOTT judges during a virtual discussion.

INNOVATION CHALLENGE THEME: How glass can improve your home or school.
CONTACT INFORMATION: All questions can be directed by email to Lauren.Citrone@us.schott.com

 

II. TERMS & CONDITIONS

General Terms

The Challenge is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. No purchase or entry fee is required to enter or win. A purchase will not increase participants’ chances of winning.

All participants and parent/legal guardians must adhere to all federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, regulations, and orders, for all aspects of their participation in the Challenge. Each winning participant, or the parent/legal guardian for those participants under the age of 18, shall be solely responsible for all applicable federal, state, and/or local taxes, and the reporting consequences thereof, and for any other fees or costs associated with the prize awarded. Prizes are non-transferrable.

Participants and parent/legal guardians agree to release SCHOTT North America, Inc., their respective affiliates, and the employees, officers, directors and agents of each of them, and any persons involved with the development and operation of the Challenge (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any and all liability, claims, or actions of any kind whatsoever for injuries, damages, or losses to person or property that may be sustained in connection with the receipt, ownership, or use of a prize or with participation in this Challenge.

SCHOTT North America, Inc. reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify participants who violate any of these Rules, Terms, and Conditions or who may make any misrepresentations relative to the Challenge. SCHOTT North America, Inc. shall have the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Challenge.

 

Photography And Video Release

By entering the Innovation Challenge, each participant and, where applicable, his/her parent/legal guardian agree to allow SCHOTT North America, Inc. to reference their names, submissions, and other materials submitted as part of the Challenge and to publicly use the participant’s name, image, likeness, and recordings associated with the Challenge for media and promotional purposes, without additional permission or compensation unless prohibited by law.

 

Privacy

Personal information provided in conjunction with participant submissions to the SCHOTT Innovation Challenge 2024 are subject to SCHOTT North America, Inc.’s data protection policy, available at https://www.schott.com/en-us/data-protection/data-protection-policy.

Participants agree that personal data, especially name and address may be processed, shared and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the Challenge. The data may also be used by SCHOTT North America, Inc. in order to verify the participant’s identity, postal address and telephone number or to otherwise verify the participant’s eligibility to participate in the Challenge.