OFFICIAL RULES FOR AAAS/Science Magazine “AAAS 2010 Annual Meeting Guest Blogging” CONTEST

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN

A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING

1. Promotion Description: The AAAS/Science Magazine AAAS 2010 Annual Meeting Guest BloggingContest (the “Contest”) begins on 2/18/10 at 12:01:00 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) and the period for entering the Contest ends on 2/22/10 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the “Entry Period”). Following the end of the Entry Period, a panel (comprised of three to four members of the news staff of Science Magazine) will select a first, second and third prize winner based on the quality of their blog entries. Winners will be notified by email or phone the following week. Prizes will consist of 1st place ($250), 2nd place (a subscription to Science), and 3rd place (a AAAS t-shirt). By participating in the Contest, each entrant unconditionally accepts and agrees to comply with and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (“Sponsor”) which shall be final and binding in all respects.

2. Eligibility: Only individuals over the age of eighteen (18) years as of January 1, 2010 and who are located in and legal residents of one of the fifty states of the United States or of the District of Columbia at the time of entry are eligible to enter. Employees of Sponsor, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising or promotional agencies, suppliers, vendors and/or service providers, and their immediate family members or persons living in the same household are not eligible. The Contest is void where prohibited.

3. How to Enter: Participants must go to the Site [http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencebloggers/] during the Entry Period and submit at least one blog item for publication on the AAAS Guest Blogging Website (the Site) by following the on-screen instructions for posting blog items. Science Staff will review the entry for suitability for publication, in their sole unfettered discretion, before it is published on the Site. In their entry(ies) participants must write about a session or event hosted at the AAAS 2010 meeting to be held from 18 February to 22 February at the San Diego Convention Center, the Manchester Grand Hyatt, and the San Diego Marriott, in San Diego. Participants must be a registered attendee of this AAAS meeting. Participants shall solely be responsible for any and all costs associated with their registration for and attendance at the AAAS 2010 meeting in San Diego.

By submitting an entry, you confirm that you have the right, including any required permission of individuals depicted in any images or video, to publicly display that image or video. You also confirm that you have the right to publicly display any music accompaniment in the video.

All entries must be received during the Entry Period to be eligible. Sponsor is not responsible for late, lost, or misdirected entries that are not received in a timely manner, or are lost due to computer or electronic malfunction or other error, or due to inaccessibility of the Internet or portions thereof.

4. Additional Rules Relating to the Submission of Entries: By submitting any entry to the Contest, Participants hereby grant to Sponsor and its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees and assigns, an irrevocable, perpetual and royalty-free right to use, reproduce, edit, display, transmit, prepare derivative works of, modify, publish and otherwise make use of the submitted entry in any and all media, whether now known or hereinafter created, throughout the world and for any purpose. In addition to other things, the rights granted to Sponsor include but are not limited to the right to censor, compress, edit, feature, caption, affix logos to, and to otherwise alter or make use of the submitted entry.

In addition, by submitting any entry to the Site, Participants hereby represent and warrant that the submitted entry or information does not and shall not infringe on any copyright or other right of any third party, and Participant has the right to grant any and all rights and licenses granted to Sponsor herein, including but not limited to all necessary rights under copyright, free and clear of any claims or encumbrances. Sponsor may, but shall have no obligation to, post, display or otherwise make publicly available any photograph submitted by you, and may, in its sole and unfettered discretion, remove, edit, modify or delete any portion of the entry or information that you submit to the Site.

5. Privacy: Information provided to enter the Contest will not be sold to third parties but may be shared as may be necessary for the purposes of conducting and judging the Contest. The Sponsor, its affiliates, and companies supplying prizes (or parts thereof) in connection with this Contest may from time to time contact entrants via email concerning the Contest, and each entrant consents to receiving such communications via email.

By submitting any entry to the Site, the entrant acknowledges and agrees that any photograph submitted may be made available for viewing and comment on by the public, and understands that comments with which the entrant disagrees or are unhappy about may be published or otherwise become associated with any submitted entry. Entrants hereby waive any privacy expectations that they may have with respect to any entry submitted to the Site.

6. Automated Entries Prohibited: No mechanically reproduced, incomplete, forged, software generated or automated multiple entries will be accepted.

7. Winner Selection: The panel, the members of which will be selected by Sponsor in Sponsor’s sole discretion, will select one (1) 1st Place Winner, one (1) Second Place Winner and one (1) Third Place Winner based on the panel’s assessment of the originality of insights and quality of writing (liveliness and readability) and timeliness of blog entries in the contest. Odds of winning are dependant on the number of entries received during the Promotion Period. Winners will be notified by email or telephone. Winners will have three (3) days from the time email notification was sent or telephone notification was given to them to accept the prize, which acceptance shall be given by email to juewang@aaas.org. Sponsor shall have no liability for any winner notification that is lost, intercepted or not received or read by a potential winner for any reason. The Sponsor is not responsible and shall not be liable for any late, lost or misdirected notification, or for a winner’s efforts to claim a prize. If for any reason a potential winner cannot be reached despite reasonable efforts by Sponsor, or a prize is not accepted within three (3) days of the first notification attempt made by Sponsor, or the potential winner is found to be ineligible or not to have complied with these Official Rules, that potential winner will forfeit his or her prize and an alternate winner will be selected from among the remaining eligible entries. In the event a second potential winner of any prize cannot be reached despite reasonable efforts by Sponsor, or the prize is not accepted by the second potential winner within three (3) days of the first notification attempt made by Sponsor, or the second potential winner is found to be ineligible or not to have complied with these Official Rules, that potential winner will forfeit his or her prize and Sponsor shall have no obligation to select any additional potential winners or to award that prize. Limit: one (1) prize per entrant.

8. Prize Details: Prizes will consist of: 1st place: The 1st Place Winner will receive $250; 2nd place: the Second Place Winner will receive a fully paid one-year subscription to Science Magazine; 3rd place: the Third Place Winner will receive a AAAS t-shirt in the style and color selected by Sponsor. The approximate total retail value of the prizes is $97.50 to $168.50.

9. General Prize Conditions: Potential Winners will be required to execute an Affidavit of Eligibility, Release of Liability and Prize Acceptance Form (collectively, the “Prize Claim Documents”). If a Winner fails or refuses to sign and return the Prize Claim Documents within three (3) days of prize notification, the Winner may be disqualified. Prizes are not transferable and not assignable. No substitutions of prizes will be allowed, except Sponsor reserves the right to substitute prize(s) of comparable or greater value in the event a prize or any portion thereof becomes unavailable for any reason. The winner shall be solely responsible for all taxes and fees or costs associated with the prize, including but not limited to any federal or state or other income tax, and any other expenses not expressly specified herein.

10. Release: Acceptance of a prize constitutes the prize winner’s permission for Sponsor to use prize winner’s name and likeness for advertising and/or promotional purposes worldwide and in all forms of media in perpetuity without further compensation or authorization. Participants agree that Sponsor and its affiliates, and their officers, employees, agents and representatives (collectively, the Sponsoring Entities”), shall not be responsible for any losses, damages or injuries of any kind resulting from participation in the Contest or from Participants’ acceptance, receipt, possession and/or use or misuse of any prize. Participants also agree that the Sponsoring entities have not made and shall not in any manner be liable for any warranty, guarantee, or representation, whether express or implied, with respect to any prize, including without limitation, the prize’s quality or fitness for a particular purpose. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual who is found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or the Site, to be acting in violation of these Official Rules, or who otherwise takes actions that do or are intended to disrupt or undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest. Sponsor also reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any entry containing any obscene, offensive or otherwise inappropriate comments or other matter.

11. Governing Law: All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules shall be governed and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York without regard to the choice of law provisions thereof.

12. Name of Winner: For the name of winners, send a self addressed, stamped envelope to: Jue Wang, News Dept, AAAS/Science 1200 New York Ave NW Washington DC 20005. Washington and Vermont residents may omit return postage.