The Winners!

We would like to thank all the participants for entering the contest. We were blown away with your creativity.

Here are the results:

First place – Derek Hall - "The Chrysalids" by John Wyndham.

Second place – Brian Skinner - "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor . Brian also mentioned creating accordion books for students to use as journals.

Third place – Bridget Quirk - "Dear Mr. Henshaw" by Beverly Cleary.

Thanks again to all of you who participated and for sharing your love of reading with others.

Launched November 1, 2019

Calling all members of the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA)!

CODE and the ATA are excited to give you a chance to win some great prizes while promoting the love of reading through social media.

Entering the contest is easy. Simply create a short video (up to 60 seconds long) sharing the name of the book you most love reading to/with your students and why. You can make the video as creative as you wish. It's all #fortheloveofreading

Books make us laugh and cry; they spark our imaginations; and open new worlds to us. Great books are one of the most powerful tools of any child’s educational journey, no matter where they live. We can’t wait to hear about favorite books for your classrooms!

Submit your video to info@code.ngo

Then get your family and friends to vote for it on CODE's website by Dec. 31.

The winner will be announced in January.

FOR THE LOVE OF READING CONTEST RULES

RULES FOR PARTICIPANTS:

You must be at least 18 years of age to enter and a legal resident of Alberta.
You must be a member of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
The prizes cannot be exchanged or altered.
Videos must showcase a book that participants most love reading with/to their students and why.
You can submit your video electronically to info@code.ngo
The public votes on the videos via the CODE website at code.ngo/contest
The video must be no more than 60 seconds in length.
Maximum size of the video submissions is 10MB.
The video that has the most public votes on the CODE website on Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 12:00PM EST will be declared the winner of the contest.
The winners will be notified via e-mail and will have to provide CODE with their phone number and mailing address to receive the prize.

ADDITIONAL LEGAL INFORMATION:

By submitting your video to CODE, you warrant that you are at least 18 years of age at the date that you submit your video and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions and warranties set forth in these rules. In the event of a dispute about the identity of an entrant, the authorized account holder of person who submitted the entry to the competition at the actual time of entry will be deemed as such. You may be required to show proof of identification and age and/or proof that you are the authorized account holder of the e-mail associated with the winning entry.
Employees, board members, representatives, agents or independent contractors of CODE, its affiliated companies and agencies, prize suppliers, or persons domiciled with any of the persons/groups are ineligible to participate.
By submitting your video to CODE, you grant CODE a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, and display the video for the purposes of the competition and any related public service activities whatsoever including adding the CODE logo to it. You will have no claim to any compensation.
CODE may choose not to post videos if they are deemed inappropriate, offensive or abusive.
Your personal details will not be shared with any third party. Your personal information shall be used by CODE only to the extent necessary for the purposes of the contest and any related public service activities.
The contest officially commences on Friday, November 1, 2019. All contest votes must be received by Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 12:00PM EST. After the deadline, the video with the most votes will be deemed the winning entry. The winner will be notified by email, then publicly announced on Monday, January 6, 2019.
Prize details not specifically set forth in these rules are at CODE’s sole discretion.
The prizeS must be accepted as awarded and cannot be transferred, assigned, substituted or redeemed for cash, except at the sole discretion of CODE.
Your video should be your own, original work. CODE reserves the right to disqualify from the competition any video which infringes the copyright or other intellectual property rights of third parties. You shall be solely responsible for your own video and the consequences of posting or publishing it. In connection with the contest, you hereby warrant that: i) you own or have all the necessary licenses, rights, consents and permissions to submit your video to CODE for posting on its website; and ii) you waive any moral rights in your video; and iii) your video does not and shall not infringe the rights of any third party. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless CODE from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from: i) your violation of any of these competition rules; ii) your violation of any third party right including without limitation any copyright or privacy right. This indemnity will survive these competition rules.
In entering this contest, each entrant releases CODE and its employees, directors, officers, suppliers, agents, and administrators from any and all liability for any loss, harm, damages, cost or expense arising out of participation in this contest or participating in any prize-related activity or the acceptance, use or misuse of any prize, including without limitation costs, injuries, losses and damages related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation, or portrayal in a false light, or from any and all claims of third parties arising therefrom.