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THE COMPETITION IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.
- How to Enter the Competition:
- WJZ’s Thurgood Marshall Day Art Competition will begin on March 15, 2025 at 12:01am and end on May 1, 2025 at 11:59pm. Competition is sponsored by Beloved Community Services Corporation and WJZ.
- WJZ’s Thurgood Marshall Day Art Competition is open to Any Student from Baltimore City Middle and Elementary Schools. All Minors must have the signed approval of parent or legal guardian.
To participate in the competition, entrants will create a visual piece of art inspired by the life of Thurgood Marshall. Entrant must fill out a signed application form available at www.wjz.com and email a downloadable digital image or video to Marshall@wjz.com.
All entries must be RECEIVED by May 1, 2025 at 11:59pm.
- One entry per person. Entrants will create a visual work of art using any visual media or mix of visual media such as: Painting, Drawing, Graphic Design, Photography, and Video. Entry must be submitted electronically.
- Sponsors are not responsible for late, lost, stolen, mangled, misdirected, misaddressed, incomplete, or illegible entries.
Sponsors are not responsible for technical or computer failures, errors or data loss of any kind, lost or unavailable internet connections, or failed, incomplete, garbled or deleted computer or network transmissions, inability to access any web site or on-line service, or any other error or malfunction, or late, lost, illegible or misdirected entries. Entry materials that have been tampered with or altered are void. If the judges determine, in their sole discretion, that there is any suspected or actual electronic tampering with the Competition or if technical difficulties compromise the integrity of the Competition, the judges reserve the right to void the entries at issue and/or terminate the Competition and conduct a random drawing to award the prize among all eligible entries received as of the termination date. If the Competition is terminated due to tampering or technical difficulties prior to its expiration date, notice will be posted at www.wjz.com. If, for any reason, the Competition is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Sponsor which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Competition, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Competition. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entrant that tampers with the operation of the Competition or website or violates the Official Rules of the Competition.
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(e) Broadcasts are subject to preemptions and scheduling changes. If such changes occur, they will be posted on the WJZ’s website.
(f) Entry deemed made by holder of e-mail account.
(g) Odds of winning depend on number of eligible entries.
- Eligibility Restrictions:
(a) The competition is open to students who attend a middle or elementary school located in Baltimore City. Employees of WJZ, Paramount Global, Beloved Community Services Corporation, other television and radio stations in the Baltimore market, and their affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising agencies and their immediate family members and persons living in the same household are ineligible to participate or win.
(b) Viewers are eligible to win a WJZ competition only once every sixty days. Only one winner per household is permitted in any competition. Viewers are eligible to win a prize valued at $600.00 or more only once every six months. Past winners in the WJZ Thurgood Marshall Day Art Competition are ineligible to participate.
(c) All entries become the sole property of Station and will not be returned. By entering, entrants agree to abide by these rules, and warrant and represent that their entry is their original work.
(d) Participants are required to provide truthful information and the Station will reject and delete any entry that it discovers to be false, incomplete, or fraudulent. The Station will disqualify any entry from individuals who do not meet the eligibility requirements.
- Prizes:
(a) From Beloved Community Services Corporation:
First Place Prize: a newly purchased 13-inch MacBook Pro valued at $1300.
Second Place Prize: a newly purchased 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Liquid Retina XDR valued at $1100.
Third Place Prize: a newly purchased 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Liquid Retina XDR valued at $1100.
Fourth Place Prize: a newly purchased 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Liquid Retina XDR valued at $1100.
(b) All prizes or prize certificates will be mailed. Winners must provide WJZ with valid mailing address and prior written consent of the winner and therefore, Winner assumes the risk of its arrival. WJZ is not responsible for the safe arrival of a prize or prize certificate. Any prize or prize certificate not claimed within fifteen (15) days of notification will be forfeited by the winner.
(c) Competition prizes are not transferable. Prizes may not be substituted for or redeemed for cash. Station reserves the right to substitute prize of comparable value.
- Selection of Winners:
(a) Decisions of competition sponsors with respect to the Competition are final.
(b) All visual works of art received will be judged 50% on relevance to the theme, 40% on creativity, and 10% on compliance with these rules (e.g. artwork a visual piece delivered digitally.) Judges, comprised of representatives of WJZ and Sponsors, will select First, Second, Third and Fourth Place Winners. Winners will be notified by e-mail or telephone.
(c) In the event of a tie, the art entries with the same score will be re-judged on the same criteria.
- Conditions:
(a) Payment of all federal, state and local taxes are the sole responsibility of the winner and winners may receive an IRS Form 1099 or equivalent from Station.
(b) By participating in the competition, the winners (or, in the case of a minor, their parent/legal guardian) agree to have their name, voice, or likeness used in any advertising or broadcasting material relating to this competition, and to sign a publicity release, affidavit of eligibility and release of liability prior to acceptance of the prize. Prize may be awarded to the minor’s parent or legal guardian. By accepting the prize, each winner grants to Station the right to use the winner’s name, voice, picture and/or likeness for purposes of advertising and publicity in any and all media now known or hereafter invented, without further permission or additional compensation (except where prohibited by law). All expenses on receipt and use of prize are the sole responsibility of Winner. Winners, by acceptance of their prizes, agree to release Station, Paramount Global, Beloved Community Services Corporation, their respective parents and subsidiaries, and their respective advertising, promotion and production agencies from any and all liability, claims or actions of any kind whatsoever for injuries, damages or losses to persons and property which may be sustained in connection with the receipt, ownership or use of the prize or while preparing for, participating in, and/or traveling to any prize-related activity.
- Competition sponsors reserve the right to make changes in the rules of the competition which will become effective upon announcement.
- Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical or other errors in the printing, the offering or the administration of the Competition or in the announcement of the prize.
- Failure to comply with the competition rules may result in a participant’s disqualification.
- To obtain a copy of the official rules and/or winner’s list, please send an email by
June 1, 2025 to: Marshall@wjz.com
