Contest 2021

CELLIM microscopy picture contest – 2021

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Dear CELLIM users,

We invite you to participate in the second Microscopy Picture Contest organized by the Cellular Imaging Core Facility of Ceitec-MU (CELLIM). If you have a picture acquired using our microscopes during 2021, you can enter the contest and win a prize. The grand prize is a 4K outdoor camera GoPro HERO 10, offered by our sponsor Carl Zeiss spol. s r.o.

Eligibility

The CELLIM Microscopy Picture Contest is for CELLIM users only. Images entered into the contest must have been acquired on a CELLIM microscope during the year 2021. The person entering the contest must have acquired the image. Contest entries should not have been entered into previous contests and cannot be entered into future contests.

Rules and entry period

Send pictures by e-mail to cellim@ceitec.muni.cz until January 21, 2022. Images must be in jpeg or png format. We will require the raw image for selected pictures to produce high quality images for poster printing. One person can enter one picture.

In the subject line, please specify “CELLIM Microscopy Picture Contest 2021” and provide the following information in the text:

• First name, family name
• Research group affiliation, Institute
• Your status (student, postdoc …)
• One phrase description of the picture
• Name of the microscope image was acquired

Click here to send the picture

Winner selection

CELLIM staff will select four pictures that will be nominated as finalists. Selected pictures will be posted on our Twitter account and ranked according how many votes (likes) each picture receives. Votes will be counted 7 days after the tweet was published. The picture with the most votes will win the competition.

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Prizes:

1st place

GoPro HERO 10 camera offered by our main sponsor, Carl Zeiss AG.

CELLIM mouse pad and mug with the printed picture

2nd place

CELLIM mouse pad, mug with the printed picture, and puzzle with the printed picture 

3rd place

CELLIM mouse pad and mug with the printed picture 

4th place

CELLIM mouse pad

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Usage rights:

By entering the contest, participants declare that they are the author of the image and provide CELLIM with permission to use and publish the picture on the CELLIM twitter account and CELLIM webpage. Pictures may also be printed and used for other publicity purposes by CELLIM and Carl Zeiss AG, and participants grant us the corresponding rights of use. Participants will be credited as the image’s author and images must be free from any third party rights.