Introduction: How to Enter the Converse Back to School in Style Contest

School starts soon, and everyone starts out with the same basic necessities - clothes, a backpack, school supplies, maybe a computer, and a boring dorm or bedroom. Converse wants to know: how do you take something standard-issue, and make it unique?

You like to express yourself creatively, and stand out of the crowd. Show us how you customize your room, your clothes, your electronics gear - anything, so long as you've given it your own personal style. Here's your chance to show off your own custom creation by sharing it on Instructables, and win some awesome Converse gear in the process!

Converse One helps you customize their classic sneakers to match your personal style - you make it what it is. Check out the website to design your own shoe! Pick a shoe, make it your own.


Multiple entries are allowed, but each entrant can only win one prize.
International entries are allowed.

Prizes

Grand Prize (1 winner)
$150 gift card for converse.com. Enough to make two pairs of awesome custom Converse One shoes!

Plus an Instructables Robot t-shirt, patch, and stickers.

First Prize (3 winners)
$75 gift card for converse.com. Enough to make a pair of awesome custom Converse One shoes!

Plus an Instructables Robot t-shirt, patch, and stickers.

Runner Up (5 winners)
Instructables Robot t-shirt, patch, and stickers.

Open to enter: August 12, 2009 12:01 AM PDT
Deadline for entries: September 20, 2009 11:59 PM PDT

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Step 1: Official Rules

1. All federal, state, and local taxes on prize are the sole responsibility of the winner. No purchases are necessary; void where prohibited by law.

2. Participants agree to abide by all decisions of Instructables, contest co-sponsors, and judges, which shall be final and binding with respect to all issues relating to this contest.

3. Prize is not transferable and no cash alternative or prize substitution is available. Instructables and contest co-sponsors reserve the right to substitute a similar prize of equal or greater value if the prize listed is unavailable for any reason. All potential winners are subject to verification at the discretion of Instructables and contest co-sponsors.

4. Winner agrees that prizes are being provided "as is", and Instructables and contest co-sponsors make no warranty, representation or guarantee regarding the prize, including but not limited to its quality, condition, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

5. Instructables and contest co-sponsors are not responsible for problems including (but not limited to) damaged, incorrect, inaccurate, lost, delayed, or defective entries, or for injury or damage to any computer resulting from participation in this contest. Entries that have been tampered with or altered are void.

6. Instructables reserves the right to modify, cancel, postpone or end the contest at any time as necessary, at its sole discretion, or to disqualify any participant or winner, at its sole discretion, deemed to have cheated, destroyed, obstructed, or otherwise acted illegally or in bad faith in relation to this contest.

7. Instructables reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its sole discretion, to be in violation of the Terms of Service; to be acting in violation of these Official Rules; to be acting in a unethical or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

8. By submitting an entry and entering this contest, you represent and warrant that: you are over the age of 18, or entering with the knowledge and permission of your parent or guardian (subject to verification), and that the entry does not contain or incorporate the intellectual property and/or confidential information of any third party.

9. By submitting an entry and entering this contest, you hereby grant Instructables and Converse a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable, worldwide, royalty free right to publish and distribute your entry for their promotional purposes.

10. Governing Law: All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of the official rules, or the rights of entrants, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with, the substance laws of the State of California and any applicable laws and regulations of the United States.