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Design of the Month Rules:
NOTE: We have a new rule starting in October, 2003 (detailed below) and a change to our prize offering (detailed under "prizes" below).

The rules for the FlisKits' Design of the Month contest are not complicated:

All entries become the property of FlisKits, Incorporated; none can be returned. NOTE: The original designer maintains ownership of the "design" and all privileges thereto. Only the "entry" ownership is maintained by FlisKits.
Enter as often as you like!
Employees of FlisKits, Inc. and members of their immediate families are not eligible to enter.
Designs should be sent to FlisKits, Inc., Design of the Month, 6 Jennifer Drive, Merrimack, NH, 03054, or via Email to dom@fliskits.com. However, all plans sent to FlisKits, Inc. which are not specifically addressed to another contest or department will be automatically placed in the Design of the Month contest
NEW RULE - October 2003: All entries from the October 2003 contest and beyond will be held in secret and displayed on site only after the conclusion of the contest month. The reason for this rule is we have received feedback several times that someone planning on entering refrained from doing so after viewing what they thought were better designs already submitted. We beleive that this is counter productive to the contest and the fun that people can have. Please, we encourage you to enter your design. You never know what's going to strike our fancy here at the home of FlisKits!
Submissions must include all documentation, as well as your name and address. Including your email address is helpful (but not required) and will allow us to contact you quicker should you win or if we have a question about your design.
Any type of model rocketry design can be entered (rockets, launching equipment, recovery devices, building jigs, etc.)
All entries must be proven designs (e.g.: The design had to have been built and successfully flown to qualify). A photo of the built model and/or a launch photo is suggested to show flightworthyness of the design.
All designs reaching FlisKits, Inc. during the calendar month will be entered in that month's competition. (Date of receipt, not postmark, will determine the month in which a design will be judged.)
By entering this contest, you accept and agree that your design may be published on our web site, with proper credit given.
Unless otherwise requested by you, by entering this contest you further accept and agree that your design will be automatically entered into the FlisKits' Design of the Year contest (details below) and that, should your design win, it may be produced by FlisKits, Inc., with proper credit given, for one full year beginning in the February/March timeframe of the succeeding year.
If two or more exceptional entries are received during any month the judges may, at their discretion, make identical first-place awards or give additional special merit awards.
Award winners will be notified by mail or email. The name of each winner will then be announced on our web site.

Design of the Year Rules:

The rules for the FlisKits' Design of the Year contest are even easier!

To enter the Design of the Year contest, you must have won First-Place in a Design of the Month contest for that year.
Unless otherwise requested, all Design of the Month winning designs are automatically entered into the Design of the Year contest.
You can NOT submit new, original designs for the Design of the Year competition. Only previous Design of the Month winning designs are eligible and automatically entered.
Once your design has won the Design of the Month contest and has been entered into the Design of the Year contest you understand and agree that, should your design win, it may be manufactured by FlisKits with due credit given to the designer.
The 12 finalist (1 Design of the Month winner for each month of the year) will be announced on our web site the first business week of the succeeding year and the winner will be informed by the first week of February of that year with a corresponding web site announcement to follow.
Announcement of the winning design, for manufacture, will occur during our February/March Product Announcement and will be available for shipment beginning in the month of March of the given year.

Prizes!

The entire rocketry community wins with FlisKits' Design of the Month contest, because the entire rocketry community get to see your wonderful designs published on our web site! But what do you win by entering your design?? Well, that's easy:

First, you win just by entering! When you first submit your design to FlisKits for entry in the Design of the Month contest, you are awarded the title of FlisKits Design of the Month Rocket Scientist and you will receive a 5" X 7" framable award to that effect, just like the one shown below! Then, if your design is chosen as the winning design, you will receive a handsome award, pictured below and suitable for framing, but that's not all! Read on... As the first place winner, you will also receive a $20 gift certificate, pictured below and redeemable for up to $20 worth of FlisKits merchandise! (See NOTE below) But, WAIT! There's still more! All first place Design of the Month winners will be automatically entered into our Design of the Year contest. Chosen from the 12 First Place winners from the previous years Design of the Month contest, the winner will receive another handsome award! Further, if your winning design is manufacturable, FlisKits will produce and sell your design for one full year, beginning March 1st of the contest year, with a percentage of the proceeds going to support the National Association of Rocketry! You, as the designer, will receive TWO of the professionally manufactured kit version of YOUR design and your name will be featured prominently on the kit packaging and documentation. WHEW! Now THAT'S a CONTEST! Join in the fun today!

NEW RULE - 13-May-2003: Due to some low turnouts in our new contest, we are implementing a slight change to our prize offerings: If there are 3 or more entries, the prize is a $20 gift certificate as described above. If there are 2 entries, the prize will be a model rocket kit. The winner can choose between the following kits: Pheord X-150, Tumbleweed, Flea, Overdrive, Cougar 440, or Cougar 660 If there is 1 entry, the prize will be a grab bag of model rocketry components to be defined at a later date but whose value is between $5 - $10

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