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JIS Heritage Poster Competition 2024

Theme: “Out of Many, One People.”

Submissions are now OPEN! You may visit the competition portal below, to submit your entry for this season's competition.

POSTER COMPETITION GUIDELINES AND INSTRUCTIONS

Deadline: NOVEMBER 8, 2024

How to submit:

For digital designs, use a cloud storage service such as DropBox, SkyDrive, or Google Drive and emailed to heritageposter@jis.gov.jm.

Illustrations should be mailed or dropped off at the JIS Head Office (58a Half Way Tree Road) OR the Montego Bay Office (National Housing Trust Building, 2nd Floor, 42 b-c Union Street, Montego Bay, St. James).

Rules:

Posters should be 11in. x 17in. (landscape or portrait).
Posters will be judged on the following criteria: interpretation of the topic, originality, neatness, and presentation.
Posters should be submitted by filling out the entry form on the JIS website: www.jis.gov.jm and agreeing to the Terms and Conditions. Please indicate your Grade category.
Images used MUST be from among those provided in the PICTURE RESOURCES. Entrants are allowed to make reasonable adjustments to images and illustrate/create additional images as deemed necessary.
The Jamaica Information Service reserves the right to disqualify any poster that does not meet the requirements specified in these instructions. Students will be penalized for plagiarism (passing off another person’s idea or work as your own).

Prizes

Prizes will be awarded to the top three (3) students. Prizes will also be given to the top participants courtesy of sponsorship from corporate Jamaica. Photos and accompanying news release will be posted on www.jis.gov.jm.

Eligibility

Any registered secondary school student in Jamaica (Grades 7-13) is eligible to compete. Relatives of JIS staff members are not eligible to participate in the JIS Heritage Poster Competition.

Additional Information
Please ensure that you keep a copy of your poster.

Contacts for Participants:
Ms. Charnele Henry
JAMAICA INFORMATION SERVICE
58a Half-Way Tree Road KINGSTON 10
TEL: 926-3740-6 Ext. 2132
Email Address: heritageposter@jis.gov.jm

Resources & Downloads

For illustrated posters, print and submit:

Key Details

Posters should be 11in. x 17in. (landscape or portrait).
Eligibility: Any registered secondary school student in Jamaica (Grades 7-13) is eligible to compete.
Images used for Digital Posters MUST be from among those provided in the PICTURE RESOURCES.
Submit digital design by uploading to a cloud storage service such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, or Google Drive and including the link in the form below.
Submit physical illustrations by mail or dropping off at the JIS Head Office (58a Half Way Tree Road) OR the Montego Bay Office (National Housing Trust Building, 2nd Floor, 42 b-c Union Street, Montego Bay, St. James).
Contact person: Ms. Charnele Henry, TEL: 926-3740-6 Ext. 2132, Email Address: heritageposter@jis.gov.jm

Submit Your Digital Poster

Please fill in your details below. If you need to contact us, you may use the following email address: heritageessay@jis.gov.jm, or call us at 876 926-3740-6.
DEADLINE: This competition closes on November 8 at 11:59pm

Step 1 of 6 - Verification

What kind of poster are you submitting?(Required)

Digital design

Illustrated Poster

ATTENTION: Illustrations should be mailed or dropped off at the JIS Head Office (58a Half Way Tree Road) OR the Montego Bay Office (National Housing Trust Building, 2nd Floor, 42 b-c Union Street, Montego Bay, St. James).

Please download, print, and fill out the entry form (above). Submit along with your illustrated poster.

Competition Terms and Conditions(Required)

AGREEMENT TO OFFICIAL RULES
Participation in the Jamaica Information Service Annual Heritage Poster Competition 2023 constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules and the decisions of the Judging Panel, which are final and binding. Eligibility is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements.

ENTRY DEADLINE: The ENTRY DEADLINE of the Competition is Tuesday, October 31, 2023.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
You must be a secondary school level student (11-19 years old)
• You are allowed to submit only one poster.
• You must submit an original, unpublished work.
• You must submit the original, not a copy of the work.
• You should NOT use material (images, graphics etc.) owned by other persons or in which a third party has intellectual property rights.
• You should NOT publish your submitted poster on social media until after the Competition Awards Ceremony.
• Entries must not, at the discretion of the Jamaica Information Service and the Judging Panel be offensive, obscene, indecent, violent, or libellous; contravene or reference any act or acts unlawful under Jamaican law; or contain content otherwise inconsistent with the purpose and ethos of the Heritage Poster Competition.
• You should NOT put any student identification on the front of the submission. It should be printed on the back of each submission, in the lower right-hand corner.
• The work should be presented in size 11 inches x 17 inches in portrait or landscape format.
• The Jamaica Information Service reserves the right to restrict participation by any person at any time for any reason and/or to disqualify any entry at any time for any reason.
• COPYRIGHT: Copyright in all posters submitted for this competition remains with the respective entrants. However, in consideration of their providing the Competition, each entrant grants a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual authorization to the Jamaica Information Service to feature any or all of the submitted images in any of its publications, websites, programmes and/or in any promotional material connected to this competition without payment to or permission from the author.
• The work must be retained by the JIS for the duration of the competition period.
• Relatives of Jamaica Information Service employees are not eligible to enter.
• The Jamaica Information Service reserves the right to restrict participation by any person at any time for any reason and/or to disqualify any entry at any time for any reason.

DIGITAL POSTERS: Should be submitted as a high-resolution file. Resolution: 150 dpi, Colour Mode: RGB or CMYK, File Formats Accepted: JPEG, EPS, TIF or PDF You must use only the material (images and graphics) in the image pool provided by the JIS on our website.

ILLUSTRATED POSTERS: Entrants may use a variety of media, including watercolour, pen, pencil, charcoal, ink, crayon, chalk markers etc, and should not smear.

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JIS Heritage Poster Competition 2024

POSTER COMPETITION GUIDELINES AND INSTRUCTIONS

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Key Details

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