Goal of the contest

Open to all Educational institutions (accredited training organisations) and Printing companies who are current users of SHOTS, the contest will name as its winner the contestant who has consistently solved the print problems with the best methodology, lowest production cost and least waste.

For this second edition, two levels are available.

• level 1: open to students with less than 2 years of study in printing knowledge

• level 2: open to industrials and students with more than 2 years of study in printing knowledge. Participant must have the possibility to get a visa to travel.

Each schools or company can compete at both levels. A team is composed at most of 5 (five) contestants.

Organisation

Registration period: from June 2011 to October 2011. It is necessary to be equipped with SHOTS Version 5.0 or higher to participate in the contest;

During the contest, Sinapse will deliver one exercise every month, according to the following agenda:

Each contestant, duly registered, will have to login into the Sinapse’s Educational Server to start and solve the exercise. After solving the exercise, the report will be automatically transferred to Sinapse’s server for analysis.

In the new Educational server, the jury at Sinapse will have the possibility to check reports in any language available in SHOTS simulator 5.0 (ex: a Chinese session history can be displayed in English)

The group of finalists will be based on the three preliminary rounds.

Ranking

Ranking will be done by Sinapse based on the exercise results sent in by the organizations for their contestants. As mentioned above, this will be based on methodology (good working practice), lowest production cost, and lowest waste and time.

Rankings will be both by level (best results for the group as a whole), and by individual. The finalists will be chosen from among the best individuals, with not more than one finalist per level per organization

Finals

The Finals for the 2 top ranking contestants for level 2 of the competition will be held during the DRUPA trade show in Germany in May, 2012. Finalists must be present in order to win. UPM and Sinapse will pay the travel and living costs for the two finalists.

Both the winner and runner-up (and their educational institutions) will be recognized with prizes, and will have their profile published in a major industry publication (GATF and others).

Certificates

Participation : all contestants

Quarter finalists: each of the 8 quarter finalists

Finalists: Certificate and Trophy (plus the trip to DRUPA)