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"INFOMATRIX" is an International Informatics Project Competition organized by Lumina Educational Institutions, the Ministry of National Education, Research and Youth and ISMB.
Grupo Educare from Mexico will organize "INFOMATRIX America" (aka Proyecto Multimedia) and their finalists will be invited to INFOMATRIX 2009 Finals.
The rules regarding the proceeding of the contest are laid down as follows:
- INFOMATRIX websites and communities
- Any project related to the categories written at tasks can be registered.
- Official language of INFOMATRIX is English. Projects should be prepared and presented in English language.
- The projects will be evaluated in a three-step procedure.
First-Phase: (Pre-selection)
- The registration and all requisite forms regarding the competition are available on the web site.
- The registration starts on October 15th, 2008 and finishes for International participants on January 30th, 2009 and for National participants on March 6th, 2009.
- For high school participants: all schools that meet secondary and gymnasium education requirements may enter the competition; the contestants must be enrolled at any institute that has an equivalent form of secondary education and within the age limits 10 - 18.
- Each team can be represented by only one person who will be considered as team leader (teacher or school staff). Each team leader can register more than one project and the projects can be in any category of the competition. From one school, more team leaders are accepted (for different projects)
- For university participants, projects must be developed by individuals (one student in a team). For high school students, teams of two may be formed (maximum two students). We are accepting teams of 2 students at University category and teams of 3 students at High school category, but only one, respectively 2 will be awarded and will present the project to the jury.
- Each contestant can be registered for only one project, or in different teams in different projects. However, in case you and/or your team qualify to participate with multiple projects or to be part of more teams, you will be required to choose a single project to compete for the final or the team in which to compete. In other words, you may only compete in one project at the final, either as an individual, or as part of a team.
- After filling in the application form on the web page, applications will be evaluated within 7 days and the team leader will be informed about the results by an e-mail.
- In order to pass this phase you must complete the schools details, team leader details (full name, email, function), project details (project name, team name, project description category) and team members (full name and contact data). Also check twice if you wrote correct the project email address!
Second-Phase: (Selection for finals)
- The projects that pass the pre-selection must be sent to the INFOMATRIX servers via ftp by January 30th, 2009 (International Participants) or March 6th, 2009 (National participants). ISC does not recommend contestants to send their projects by post! If you are a foreign team you may ask that your project to be evaluated starting with 5th of Janury 2009 in order to get visa.
After uploading the project on our ftp, the team leader should write an email to
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asking the evaluation of his/her project before the date of 24th of January. In 7 days from your request you will get an email with the result of evaluation.
If you register a project and ask for an earlier evaluation, the result that you will get will be final and you don't have the right to register one more time the same project.
- Between January 24th and January 28th, 2009, the Jury will evaluate the projects that have been sent. The projects that qualify for the finals will be announced on the competition web page on January 29th, 2009 and the team leaders will be informed about the results by e-mail.
Third-Phase: (Finals)
- The INFOMATRIX 2009 final will take place in Bucharest, on April 24th - 27th, 2009.
- For a project presentation in accordance with the given stand (panel) dimensions, the documents should be printed beforehand.
- Each project must be presented with a report containing explanations about how it was prepared and the technical details of the project.
- The project report should not contain repetitions or prolongations. The report should be concise and focused on the subject, and not having omissions.
- Each team must prepare their own stands at the Exhibition hall on the 23rd of April 2009, and also should be able to present the project and materials at the Jury stand on 24th – 25th of April 2009.
- The contestants should bring the hardware equipments needed for presenting the project. If any team needs help about providing hardware equipments, ISC will try to do their best!
- The participants will wear their national costumes in the Exhibition, and either the national costumes or formal INFOMATRIX t-shirts in front of the Jury.
- We highly recommend to wear the national costume, to make a good design to the stand and to have a great activity at the exhibition.
- At university categories, if more than 8 projects are not qualified for the final then that category won't exist in the final.
- For accommodation there will be a hotel fee of approx 40 euro per night per person at a 4 start hotel. There is no participation fee.
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