General information, rules and regulations for award submissions.

Awards submission timeline: Award submission will be accepted from February 1 - May 14, 2010 (12:00 a.m. HST).

Eligibility: All NACE chartered chapters and members in good standing and are eligible to enter event(s) that took place during the calendar year 2009 (unless otherwise noted in the awards criteria for which you are submitting); NACE student or pilot chapters are not eligible.

Entry Fees: Chapters entries are complimentary. Industry entries are subject to a $95 entry fee.

How To Enter: The nominating party must complete an online nomination form along with any entry materials and the entry fee for each submission.

Judging: The entries in any event category will be judged by a panel to include a minimum of three of the following professionals as appointed by the NACE National President and may include: National President, Immediate Past President, industry and culinary professionals, National Board members, past National Board members and National Committee Members. The NACE Awards Committee reserves the right to have submissions pre-judged prior to the Experience!™ Conference. NACE reserves the right to withhold the presentation of an award in any category if a category does not receive at least three entries from three different eligible nominators or should there be no entries received that meet the appropriate criteria and scoring guidelines.

Disqualification: Entries will be disqualified if they are incomplete or do not conform to the rules and requirements. Make sure you carefully read the entry instructions on the nomination form and double-check your entry before it is submitted to make sure it conforms to the stated entry criteria. Disqualified entries will not be returned.

Award Presentations:The awards will be presented during the 2010 Experience!™ conference.

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• A step-by-step PDF guide to submit chapter awards
• A step-by-step PDF guide to submit industry awards

Things you need to know:

• Winning entries are the property of NACE. Photographs and materials in the entry will be used by NACE for promotional and other purposes.
• NACE reserves the right to withhold the presentation of an award in any category if a category does not receive at least three eligible entries that meet scoring guidelines (a minimum of 70 points). Judging will take place in advance of the conference, by a panel of qualified judges appointed by the National Awards Committee Chair.
• Each entry and winner will be presented during the Awards gala at the 2010 Experience! conference.

Technical information:

• Photographs MUST have a resolution of 300dpi or greater.
• To avoid loss of information, it is highly recommended that you complete your award submission in a word processing program and copy and paste the appropriate information into each section.