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School Contest
Essay

OFFICIAL RULES
March 15, 2001 - August 31, 2001

1. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.
Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States, District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec) who are currently in 9th grade or below as of August 31, 2001. Void in Puerto Rico and where prohibited by law. Contest begins at midnight PT, March 15, 2001, and ends 11:59 p.m., August 31, 2001. The winner will be selected no later than October 15, 2001. All times are Pacific Time (PT).

2. HOW TO ENTER.
There is one (1) way to enter the Contest:
MAIL-IN ENTRY: Navigate the Internet to the Contest information page on the Disney.com Web site at http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/waltdisney/
educationdept/contest.html
. To enter the Contest print out the Entry Form, or use a plain piece of paper, and provide the following information: your full name, address (including zip code), daytime phone number (including area code), current grade, and full birth date; the name of the school you currently attend (including the city and state) as well as the school you will be attending next year, if it will be different; the phone number of your school (including area code); and the name of a teacher or other contact there. Then have your parent or legal guardian sign the form. Submit your legibly printed or typed essay, in English only, of no more than 400 words about the following topic: "What do you admire the most about Walt Disney?" Essays will not be acknowledged or returned. Incomplete Entry Forms will be disqualified.

Entrants represent and warrant that the submitted essays are their own wholly original work and are not copied from a book, magazine, newspaper, or other commercial or proprietary source. In consideration of entrants' participation in this Contest, entrants expressly grant Sponsor the right to modify, use, reproduce, electronically publish, and display the submitted essays in all media, means, and forms and without any payment to entrants.

Mail your completed and signed Entry Form and your essay to the following address:

    Pantheon Productions
    Attn: Walt Disney Essay Contest
    200 Corporate Pointe, Suite 490
    Culver City, CA 90230
Sponsor is not responsible for lost, interrupted, or unavailable network, server, or other connections, miscommunications, failed phone or computer hardware or software or telephone transmissions or technical failures, garbled or jumbled transmissions or other errors of any kind, whether human, mechanical, or electronic; including without limitation the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry information online, or for lost, late, incomplete, damaged, stolen, misdirected, postage-due, or illegible entries. Entry materials/data that have been tampered with or altered are void.

3. SELECTION OF WINNERS AND JUDGING CRITERIA.
One (1) Grand Prize Winner will be selected from all eligible entries received prior to August 31, 2001. The Grand Prize Winner will be selected by The Walt Disney Family Museum curators based on the judging criteria. The judging criteria to be used in selecting the Grand Prize Winner will be based on clear, interesting writing, good use of facts, and -- most important - creative and interesting thinking. Factual inaccuracies of any kind will count strongly against the submission. While you do not have to include any kind of footnoting, use of sources other than The Walt Disney Family Museum Web site will be advantageous. Plagiarism will be grounds for immediate disqualification. The Grand Prize Winner essay and excerpts from other selected submissions will be posted on Sponsor's Web site (http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/
waltdisney/educationdept/contest.html
). By participating, entrants agree to the Official Rules and the decisions of the judges, which shall be final and binding in all respects.

4. PRIZES.
One (1) Grand Prize Winner will receive a collector's library of approximately six (6) books about Walt Disney, all signed by their authors, and a copy of the CD-ROM "Walt Disney: An Intimate History," signed by Walt's daughter, Diane Disney Miller. In addition, the school attended by the Grand Prize Winner will receive the collector's library (without the author's signatures).

Total Approximate Retail Value of all Contest Prizes: $300.00.

Winners are solely responsible for any and all taxes on prizes, as well as any and all expenses relative to participation in the Contest (including acceptance of prize) not specified herein. Prizes will be awarded within approximately 60 days after selection of winners. No substitution allowed except at discretion of Sponsor. Prizes are not transferable. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute any and all prizes with prizes of equal or greater value if an advertised prize becomes unavailable. All prizes will be awarded.

5. ELIGIBILITY.
Contest is governed by U.S. law and is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States, District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec) who are currently in 9th grade or below as of August 31, 2001. Void in Puerto Rico and where prohibited by law. Employees or agents of Disney Online, Walt Disney Internet Group, The Walt Disney Company, its parent company, affiliates, subsidiaries, and its advertising and promotional agencies, and the employees, officers, directors, and agents of any of the above organizations, and the members or the immediate family or those living in the same household of such individuals, are ineligible. All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply.

Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, or suspend the Contest should viruses, bugs, unauthorized human intervention, or other causes beyond the control of Sponsor corrupt or impair the administration, security, or fairness of the Contest. In such event, winners will be selected from all eligible entries received up to the time of such cancellation, termination, or suspension, if any.

Submission of an entry constitutes the irrevocable grant to Sponsor of all rights in the entry, all rights to publish, use, adapt, edit, and/or modify such entry in any way and in any and all media, without limitation, and without consideration or acknowledgment to the entrant, and the unconditional right to use the entrant's name and statements about the promotion for advertising/publicity purposes without additional compensation, except where prohibited by law.

By entering, participants release Disney Online, Walt Disney Internet Group, The Walt Disney Company, their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and its advertising and promotional agencies, and the employees, officers, directors, and agents of the above organizations from any and all liability for any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind caused by participation in the Contest or the acceptance, possession, or use/misuse of a prize or participation in any prize-related activities.

6. WINNER'S NAMES/OFFICIAL RULES.
The winner's name (first name and first initial of last name) and city of residence will be posted online as described above. For a copy of the Official Rules or the Entry Form, mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope by August 31, 2001, to: Disney Online, Walt Disney Family Museum Essay Contest Official Rules, 500 S. Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California 91521-7690. Residents of VA and WA may omit the return postage.

This Contest is sponsored by Disney Online and The Walt Disney Family Museum located at 500 S. Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California 91521-7710.

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