Rules, Prizes, How to Submit - see below. For more information, visit the Facebook page for the Competition at Rx Laughter Student-Hospital Pair UP Competition - A Digital Program Thanks!

Submission period begins Monday, January 5, 2015 and ends on May 30, 2015.

For questions: email us at ContactRxLaughter@gmail.com (put "Rx L Pair Up" in Subject line)

Please note that humor, while an important component of this competition, is not the only criteria taken into consideration. We also look at how uplifting, enjoyable, innovative, compassionate and professional the clip is for patients to enjoy and share. Joyful performances in music, dance, animation are welcomed as well as stand up and improv comedy.

Description, Rules, Prizes, Submit:

Do Good, Get Noticed!
The purposes of the Rx Laughter Student-Hospital Pair UP Digital Competition are to
- Support and encourage virtual, uplifting, entertaining, comforting digital "visits" to reach youth and families in distress who are confined to hospital rooms or are too sick for visitors (Isolation, ICU, hospices) and are in isolated, rural areas.

- Foster relationships between students of comedy and performing arts and children who are coping with serious physical and emotional illnesses to provide relief and comfort for them and their families.

-Enlighten and encourage hospitals about the benefits of compassionate care and the use of digital technology to help critically ill patients through this program.

-Raise partial funds to continue to develop and run our free therapeutic and educational programs in person and virtually at hospitals and mental health clinics.

-Offer the opportunity to students to have their work seen by top entertainment industry professionals who might not see their work otherwise.

Spread awareness about the hospital that you choose and the work that they do, and add them to our list of hospitals for patients who can be helped by our therapeutic programs.

Fee: $15.00 Per Student. Tax deductible. Payment: www.rxlaughter.org "Donate" button via paypal. Payment can be made by check or credit card. http://www.rxlaughter.org/a_donate.htm The $15 entry fee is per each person of a team.

Eligibility: Any middle school, high school or college student or student, Students who are enrolled in performance or production curriculum are especially welcome. One person or a team may enter.
Improvisational students enrolled in formal classes at established improvisational centers may also register.

Collaborator(s):
Student Television Network (STN) which has over 450 affiliated schools in the USA.
www.studenttelevision.com
Additonal collaborators to be announced.

Prizes:
See further below for this information.

Submission Process: Overview:
Please submit name of school and local medical center (hospital, nursing home, hospice, mental health clinic, rehab center) with a photo of the front of the hospital (should include the name of the hospital in the photo).

Please take a photo of your team and include your names with the photo.

Please pay $15 per student (see above) Rx Laughter is a formal 501c3 tax exempt organization. Therefore, your payment is tax deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law.

You will now be officially enrolled, and your information will go up on this page with a photo of your team, a mention of your school, a link to your school, and a photo of the hospital of your choice.

We will notify the hospital that they have been selected and that their photo and description with link to their hospital is included on this page.

Your work will be seen by the patients in the hospital of your choice as soon as you submit your video to us, whether you win the contest or not. We will contact their administration to share your fun video, espeically with youth who are confined to their rooms or are in ICU for extended periods.

You can submit your video in memory of (or in honor of) a special person (friend, family, other).

The video must be approximately 3 to 5 minutes. Videos longer than this will not be accepted.

The video can include music, dance, comedy routine, animation, improv. The connecting factor is that it is uplifting, fun, entertaining and wholesome.

You have until the submission deadline of May 30, 2015 to send in your clip for final review by our Judges. (Judges named below).

We will post your video as soon as you send it. The public can see it from the time you post it until the deadline of May 30, 2015 which allows for maximum exposure of your work!

Please note that once you send us your clip, it cannot be revised or updated afterwards at any time in the process.

The 4 Finalist Teams & Winning Team will be notified by June 30, 2015.

We reserve the right to not choose any finalists or winners of this contest if we feel that the submissions are not of high enough quality.

We reserve the right to change the deadline dates if necessary.

Rx Laughter has the non exclusive no-fee right to show the videos and will give proper credit.

Prize Package:
Finalists are selected by top entertainment industry professionals. Winning team receives 30 minutes of Skype mentoring by each of the Judges, media exposure through additional publicity, high exposureon www.rxlaughter.org and other Rx Laughter social media across the board, and an in person visit to the hospital of their choice with media exposure. Names are mentioned with a bio of each Winner.

Non-Winning 4 Finalist teams receive 2 tickets (per team) to the taping of a multi camera sitcom, prominent exposure of their clip here and on www.rxlaughter.org as well as their clip being seen by the Judges. Names are mentioned individually with a bio of each Finalist.

Judges include:
Susanne Daniels, President of MTV Programming.

Eric Linus Kaplan, Executive Producer of The Big Bang Theory

Barry Katz, Producer and Host of "Industry Standard" podcast, Executive Producer of NBC's "Last Comic Standing", Manager of comedians (roster has included Dane Cook, Jay Mohr), President of Barry Katz Entertainment.

JoAnn Grigioni, Vice President of Talent Development East Coast, Comedy Central.

Allan Trautman, Animatronics Performer, Puppeteer, Jim Henson Company.

Sherry Hilber, Former Primetime Current Programming Executive at ABC and CBS Entertainment, Director of Creative Affairs for Walt Disney Television Animation, Story Analyst for Warner Bros. Television Writer's Workshop and Founder and CEO of Rx Laughter.

Additional Judge(s) and Prizes may be added in the
future.

For questions, please email us at ContactRxLaughter@gmail.com. Please put "Rx L Pair UP" in the Subject Line so that it does not go to Spam. Thank you -- and good luck!