Eureka contest at Coolscifi

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We were approached at Coolscifi by an agency behind the tv show Eureka to host a competition to give away some goodies. It's open to everyone but Coolscifi and Eureka staff obviously. Some of the photoshoppers here might be interested, plus the creative types.

Cool SciFi is having a contest! We really like the new show Eureka on the Sci-Fi Channel and have come up with a great contest to go with it.


About Eureka
As World War II came to a close with mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the impact that science and technology would have on the continued security of our world became catastrophically apparent. America nearly lost the race to build the atomic bomb; it could not risk such a close call again.

With the help of Albert Einstein and other trusted advisors, President Harry S. Truman commissioned a top-secret residential development in a remote area of the Pacific Northwest, one that would serve to protect and nurture America's most valuable intellectual resources. There our nation's greatest thinkers, the über-geniuses working on the next era of scientific achievement, would be able to live and work in a supportive environment. The best architects and planners were commissioned to design a welcoming place for these superlative geniuses to reside, an area that would offer the best education for their children, the best healthcare, the best amenities and quality of life. A community was created to rival the most idyllic of America's small towns — with one major difference: this town would never appear on any maps. At least, none that haven't been classified "eyes only" by the Pentagon.

Thus, the town of Eureka was born. But for all its familiar, small-town trappings, things in this secret hamlet are anything but ordinary. The stereotype of the absent-minded professor exists for a reason, and most of the quantum leaps in science and technology during the past 50 years were produced by Eureka's elite researchers. Unfortunately, scientific exploration is rarely what one expects, and years of experiments gone awry have yielded some peculiar by-products.

From unrequited love to professional jealousy, from addiction to depression, the problems of Eureka's townsfolk stem from life's myriad of everyday challenges. But with the population's unique talents, troubled psyches and limitless resources, these small-town concerns have a way of becoming big-time problems. It is at that intersection, where human frailty and super-science collide, that Eureka begins….

The Prize
The prize is really cool! A Sci-Fi prize pack which includes a Eureka t-shirt, in addition to copies of Battlestar Galactica, Ghost Hunters and The Triangle on DVD!!

The Contest
To design an invention that does not yet exist but is something that could be used by everybody right now. What would make life easier for everybody? Is it something that would be used everday? Would it be cheap enough that the average person could afford it? Is it for peace or war?

You must submit a written detailed description of your invention and if possible a drawing. A drawing is not required but some type of image of what your invention would look like would increase your odds of winning. It doesn't matter if you do it in PhotoShop or stick figures in MS Paint... it's the effort that counts.

The Cool SciFi staff will pick a winner after the deadline. The winning entry will not be picked necessarily chosen based on literacy skills and artistic abilities but rather based upon the imagination shown and writing creativity.

Visit Made In Eureka to check out some of the inventions that have come out of Eureka so far!

How To Enter
To enter the contest click HERE (http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=61) to submit your entry! The deadline to submit your entry is Sept. 15, 2006. If you would like help submitting your entry please feel free to respond to either this thread with your questions/comments or send an email to contests@coolscifi.com and one of our support staff will help you out.

Rules
The fine print...

* Deadline: All submissions must be received by September 15, 2006 by midnight EST.
* Who Can Enter: Everybody except Cool SciFi staff! If you're under 16 though you must ask your parent's permission first because the contest winner will need to send us a mailing address to send their prize to.
* What is allowed: You must keep your entry family friendly! Cool SciFi is family friendly website so that means nothing obscene can be submitted, nothing violent can be submitted, and nothing political can be submitted. The Cool SciFi staff will make the decision on what 'obscene', 'violent', and 'political' is.
* Copyrights: Your submission must be an original! You will retain the copyrights & rights to anything you submit. By submitting it to the contest you give permission Cool SciFi to to use your works as part of the contest but all rights are retained by you.
* Rules: Cool SciFi reserves the rights to amend the contest rules as warranted.

Have fun, be creative.... watch Eureka! Eureka airs at 9/8C on the Sci-Fi Channel on Tuesday nights.