• show an interesting animation illustrating current and potential damage to environment; may display in an original way slogans and appeals to save the environment
• help estimate the quantity of poisonous emissions (and money) a person saves by doing specific actions, like riding a bike rather than driving a car, adjusting your heating devices to a lower temperature, etc.
• educate how many years it takes to have a trashed material decompose completely
• explain what home, gardening, office activities may be undertaken to reduce contamination and carbon emissions

• You are not involved in the execution and administration of the contest.
• You are not a family or household member of a person involved in the administration and execution of the contest.

• Тhe web application must use Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 or higher
• Contestants should submit the application source code together with their entry. The source code should be provided as a ZIP archive and should include the following items:
  • A single Visual Studio Solution containing each of the solution projects.
  • A Silverlight Application project that contains the application.
  • A Test Silverlight Web Project that will host the Silverlight application. The host web project must demonstrate the control in use.
  • The code must compile. Entries for which the code does not compile will be disregarded.
• The application should be your own original work, and should not be awarded in another contest.
• You must have obtained all necessary consents, approvals or licenses before you submit your entry. Your entry may not use copyrighted material, trademarks, etc without the written consent of their owners.
• Entries must not be commercial or shareware.

• use, review, assess, test and analyze your entry and all its content in connection with the contest
• feature your entry in selected media for promotional purposes, as well as to help support global efforts to save the environment

SilverlightShow Community Choice

• We will post all eligible entries in our Community Vote gallery within two (2) business days from entry submission. Between 12:01 am GMT on January 12th and 11:59 pm GMT on February 17th SilverlightShow users will be asked to rate the submissions in the Community Vote Gallery, taking into consideration the Judging Criteria described below. Each user may give a 1 to 5 star rating to each of the entries in the Community Vote gallery. Each entry may be rated just once by each user.
• At the end of the Community voting period, a Community Choice winner will be selected based on the highest average vote score received. In case of a tie between two or more entries, the tie will be broken by judges based on the criteria listed above.
• In case the Community Vote winner is also selected as Grand Prize winner, the higher of the two awards will be given - that is, the Grand Prize. In such a case, the Community Vote winner will become the entry with the next highest average community rating.

For both contest categories, the decisions of the judges are final.

Judging criteria

• Originality of idea
• Graphic Design/User Experience
• Functionality
• Quality of implementation

Judge's Choice

One (1) Grand Prize

1. A trip to attend Microsoft MIX10 event, March 15-17, 2010 in Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas. The trip includes:
   • Admission to Microsoft MIX10 event, March 15-17, 2010.
   • Three (3) nights hotel accommodation (for up to two people) at Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas.
   • $1,000 for travel expenses 
       
2. Telerik Premium Collection for .NET: Developer License with Subscription and Priority Support. Included controls: 
   • RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX 
   • RadControls for WinForms
   • RadControls for WPF
   • RadControls for Silverlight
   • Telerik Reporting
   • Telerik OpenAccess ORM
   • JustCode
   • Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC

First Runner-up Prize

1. Admission to attend Microsoft MIX10 event, March 15-17, 2010, in Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas. 
    
2. Telerik RadControls for Silverlight and WPF: Developer License with Subscription and Priority Support  

1. A trip to attend Microsoft MIX10 event, March 15-17, 2010 in Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas.
   The trip includes:
   • Admission to Microsoft MIX10 event , March 15-17, 2010.
   • Three (3) nights hotel accommodation (for up to two people) at Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas.
       
2. Telerik RadControls for Silverlight: Developer License with Subscription and Priority Support

• You may not exchange your prize for cash or any other merchandize or services;
• You may not appoint someone else as the winner. If you are unable or unwilling to accept your prize, we will award it to another potential winner.
• You agree to hold harmless all organizers of the contest against any and all claims and liability arising from the use of your prize. You assume all liability for any injury or damage caused, or claimed to be caused, from participation in this contest or use/acceptance of the prize.

VI. Contest availability

In case of contest cancelation, the organizers reserve the right to withhold judgment on existing contest submissions.

1. The contest website may experience downtime at any time during and after the contest.
2. We reserve the right to cancel the contest if less than 3 entries are submitted by the contest end date and time.