BYU Sesquicentennial Celebration

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Graduate Student or Alumni

Current Program or Graduation Year

If you are a current Graduate Student, please enter your Graduate Program. If you are a Graduate Alumni, please enter your graduation year.

Competition Category

You may only choose one.

Entry Title

Submitter Statement

Please describe how your entry expresses how your BYU experience has helped you spread your unique beacon of light in your community and around the world. (300 word limit)

Entry Description

Please write a description of the work itself that will go along with your submission piece. If the entry is a visual art piece, this should include art dimensions and size, and materials/medium used. (150 word limit)

Entry

Upload a digital copy of your entry (JPG, PNG, PDF, MP3). If your entry is a video, please enter the YouTube URL in the text box below, rather than uploading the file here.

YouTube Video URL

Videos should be filmed in landscape format and should be uploaded to YouTube and marked “private.” Dance and performance videos may not exceed 10 minutes; short documentaries may not exceed 15 minutes. Include the URL to your YouTube video in the text box below.

Personal Photo

Upload a photo of yourself (JPG, PNG)

Code of Conduct

Participants submitting to the Brigham Young University Graduate Studies Beacons of Light Competition must ensure their work is original and aligned with the competition theme. Professionalism is expected throughout the submission process, including timely communication and adherence to guidelines. Compliance with all laws and regulations, including copyright, is mandatory. Participants must conduct themselves ethically and accept the decisions of the organizers and judges. Use of AI technology is not allowed in any category. If any work is found to be using generative AI, that work will be disqualified. Submissions must be original and the submitting person must have the rights to any and all portions of the submission.

Do you agree to comply with the Code of Conduct stated above?

Insurance Release Agreement

By submitting the above-named work(s) to BYU Graduate Studies, you warrant that you are the owner of the artwork(s) or are the representative of the owner and have the authority to enter into this agreement. You recognize that there are risks attached to the handling, security, management and care of the work(s) exhibited by BYU Graduate Studies, and that any work(s) submitted for exhibition are not insured by Brigham Young University or BYU Graduate Studies. Therefore, in submitting work(s) for exhibition, you release and hold harmless BYU Graduate Studies and Brigham Young University from assumption of liability and any claim for work(s) and frame(s) or any claim for damage or loss of above work(s). BYU Graduate Studies will exercise professional diligence to protect all works placed in its charge.

Do you agree to enter your work into the exhibition under the conditions stated above?

Media & Copyright Agreement

By giving your consent below you agree that works submitted may be used for BYU Graduate Studies publicity and/or BYU publications. By selecting "Yes" below, you grant to BYU Graduate Studies, as of the date of submission, a non-exclusive royalty-free license (the “License”) to reproduce the Work, for the life of its copyright and any renewals or extensions thereof, in any media whether now known or invented after the date hereof (all reproduction, the “Images”), and to display, transmit, publish, distribute, prepare, derivative works of and otherwise use the Images throughout the world as follows: 1. in educational and promotional materials related to BYU Graduate Studies or Brigham Young University’s Sesquicentennial Celebration exhibitions and programs (including for example, posters, postcards, teaching materials, web sites, social networks, catalogues, and similar publications); and 2. in publicity and informational materials about BYU Graduate Studies or Brigham Young University’s Sesquicentennial Celebration exhibitions and programs (including, for example, press releases, web sites, social networks, annual reports, promotional flyers, email, posters or films, and membership solicitations).

Do you agree to enter your work into the exhibition under the conditions stated above?

Sesquicentennial Submission