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ABOUT THE COMPETITION:
MOTOFWRD, a new scholarship competition from Motorola, gives college students nationwide the chance to define the future of communications and technology. This competition challenges students to submit their most innovative ideas about the future of seamless mobility to answer to the consumer demand to live life wherever, whenever and however. Seamless mobility is a set of solutions that will provide easy, uninterrupted access to information, entertainment, communication, monitoring and control when, where and how we want regardless of the device, service, network or location.

WHO CAN ENTER:
MOTOFWRD is open to U.S. residents, age 18 or older, attending college in the United States.

ENTRY CRITERIA:
Participants can submit their ideas through select visual art or written mediums that are most relevant to their studies. Students may enter any of the following:

• Essay, short story or white paper up to 1,500 words
• Short film or animation up to five minutes
• Digital art including graphics, images and schematics up to ten panes
• Comic strips up to 20 panes

COMPETITION DEADLINE:
Students must submit their entries online at www.motorola.com/motofwrd.

JUDGING GUIDELINES:
Entries will be judged on three criteria:

• Depiction of seamless mobility (80 percent)
• Creativity of entry (10 percent)
• Feasibility and sophistication of ideas (10 percent)