<h3><span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;"><span style="color:#414141;">What does Afrofuturism look like to you? In this contest, we&#39;re asking you to build your vision of the future through the lens of Afrofuturism.</span></span></span></h3>

<h3><span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;"><span style="color:#414141;">Hear from Ekow Nimako in the video below, to learn all about this contest:</span></span></span></h3>

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<h3><span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;"><span style="color:#414141;">Afrofuturism is a cultural movement, aesthetic, and genre that envisions black people at the center of their own stories. Advanced technology and reimagined aspects of history are a major part of the philosophy. </span></span></span></h3>

<h3><span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;"><span style="color:#414141;">Through Afrofuturism we can redefine how we see and think about Black culture, as we pave new and innovative ways to building a better world for us all. What does Afrofuturism look like to you? Is it art? Is it sustainable architecture? Is it the image of a cultural icon, redesigned with greebling galore? </span></span></span></h3>

<h3><span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;"><span style="color:#414141;">Need more inspiration? <span>Check out <a href="https://ekownimako.com/">Ekow&rsquo;s website</a>&nbsp;or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ekownimako/">Instagram account</a></span>&nbsp;to see great examples of Afrofuturistic Artwork. And remember, even if Ekow&rsquo;s builds are all black, you&rsquo;re welcome to use the full color palette when you enter this contest.</span></span></span></h3>

<p><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">For the prize packages in this contest, we asked Ekow to recommend some of his favorite LEGO sets. It turns out that he&#39;s a big fan of interstellar vessels, so that made it easy for us to select some of the prizes for this contest. With that in mind, the Grand Prize winner will receive</span></span>:</p>

<ul>
	<li><span><span style="color:black;">Adventures of the AIA (A custom build by Ekow)</span></span></li>
	<li>75252 Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer</li>
	<li>21321 LEGO Ideas International Space Station</li>
	<li>76186 LEGO Marvel Superheroes Black Panther Dragon Flyer</li>
	<li>10283 Creator Expert NASA Space Shuttle Discovery</li>
</ul>

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<p><br>
<strong>ENTRY DEADLINE:</strong> Submit your entry no later than March 8th, 2022&nbsp;at 6:00 a.m. EST.  If you&rsquo;re not sure what time zone you&rsquo;re in, here&rsquo;s a <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html#xlink">time zone converter</a>.</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="#howitworks">How it Works</a></li>
	<li><a href="#rules">Contest Rules</a></li>
	<li><a href="#prizes">Prizes</a></li>
</ul>

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<h2><a id="howitworks" name="howitworks">How it Works</a></h2>

<p>The contest will consist of 4&nbsp;phases:</p>

<ol>
	<li><strong>Submission Phase -&nbsp;</strong>Build and submit your entry before March 8th, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EST. We recommend submitting your entry 2-3 days before the deadline in the event we have to return it to you for changes.</li>
	<li><strong>Judging Phase - </strong>Our judges review the entries and choose their favorites, to be part of the Fan Vote selection by March 22nd, 2022.</li>
	<li><strong>Fan Vote -&nbsp;</strong>Our judges&rsquo; selections will go to a fan vote on March 22nd, 2022 and run until March 29th, 2022.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
	<li><strong>Winners Announcement</strong> - We share the Grand Prize winners and two Runner Up winners here on LEGO Ideas no later than April 5th, 2022!</li>
</ol>

<h3>How to Enter:</h3>

<ol>
	<li>Submissions may be in either physical bricks or by using a digital building tool such as&nbsp;<a href="http://ldd.lego.com/en-us/" target="_blank">LEGO Digital Designer</a>. You&rsquo;re welcome to use image editing tools, such as Photoshop, to enhance your photos/presentation.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Take up to five photos of your creation and submit them to the contest. Make sure to show off all angles and any features or functions of your creation. &nbsp;</li>
	<li>Please submit your photos in as high a resolution as possible so that we can see all the details clearly. If possible, the shortest edge should be at least 1080 pixels.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Add a title and short description.  &nbsp;</li>
	<li>Upload your entry to the contest using the blue Submit Your Entry button on this page. &nbsp;</li>
</ol>

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<hr>
<h2><a id="rules" name="rules">Contest Rules:</a></h2>

<h3>Acceptable Entry Content</h3>

<ul>
	<li>You must be the original creator of all creative work you submit (LEGO models, images, photographs, description text, etc.) and you must have the exclusive right to submit your game to this LEGO Ideas Contest. You may not submit a game and/or model or any other content made by, or on behalf of, someone else.</li>
	<li>Entries must be new creations and not previously posted online or submitted to any other contest.</li>
	<li>You&nbsp;are allowed to&nbsp;use any official LEGO element (LEGO System, LEGO DUPLO, LEGO TECHNIC/Constraction) in your entry. The LEGO elements must be genuine (not cut, glued, or otherwise modified). &nbsp;</li>
	<li><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><span>Entries should not contain copies or references to any other existing third-party work or creation or infringements of any third-party intellectual property right such as Marvel.</span></span></span></li>
	<li><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><span><span style="color:#222222;">You may use Minifigures in your entry. Please only use generic Minifigures that do not use any third party intellectual property.</span></span></span></span></li>
	<li>Contest entries related to the topics below do not fit our brand values and will not be approved for publication on LEGO Ideas: &nbsp;
	<ul>
		<li>Politics and political symbols, campaigns, or movements &nbsp;</li>
		<li>Religious references including symbols, buildings, or people &nbsp;</li>
		<li>Sex, nudity, drugs, or smoking &nbsp;</li>
		<li>Alcohol in any present-day situation &nbsp;</li>
		<li>Swearing or profanity &nbsp;</li>
		<li>Death, killing, blood, terrorism, horror, or torture &nbsp;</li>
		<li>First-person shooter video games &nbsp;</li>
		<li>Warfare or war vehicles in any modern or present-day situation, or national war memorials &nbsp;</li>
		<li>Large or human-scale weapons or weapon replicas of any kind, including swords, knives, guns, sci-fi or fantasy blasters, etc. &nbsp;</li>
		<li>Racism, bullying, or cruelty to real life animals &nbsp;</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
</ul>

<h3>Entry Quality Standards</h3>

<ul>
	<li>You may submit digital entries using <a href="http://ldd.lego.com/en-us/" target="_blank">LEGO Digital Designer</a>, which is available for download via <a href="http://ldd.lego.com/en-us/" target="_blank">this link</a> free of charge. Any entries made in LEGO Digital Designer should not show the baseplate from build mode. You&nbsp;may also create digital entries using third-party LEGO CAD software such as&nbsp;<a href="https://studio.bricklink.com/v2/build/studio.page" target="_blank">Studio</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://mecabricks.com/" target="_blank">Mecabricks</a>. &nbsp;</li>
	<li>You may use photo editing software, such as Photoshop, to enhance your entry&rsquo;s presentation.  &nbsp;</li>
	<li>Entries containing photos that are too dark or blurry will not be approved. To ensure easy judging of your entry, we recommend taking pictures on a neutral background free from background clutter, with your model well framed.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Please do not include people or limbs in pictures you submit. Photos containing such will be removed.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Please do not overlay any text or logos onto your submitted images. &nbsp;</li>
</ul>

<h3>House Rules</h3>

<ul>
	<li>Entries containing defamatory or degrading elements will not be eligible for the contest.</li>
	<li>Any cheating or harassment of other participants will result in disqualification from the contest.</li>
	<li>Your contest entries and comments on contest entries must follow the complete LEGO Ideas <a href="https://ideas.lego.com/guidelines#house_rules">House Rules</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Judging</h3>

<p><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><span><span style="color:black;">A panel of LEGO judges including Ekow Nimako, will choose entries for the Fan Vote based on:</span></span></span> </span></p>

<ul>
	<li>Overall coolness and originality: 25% &nbsp;</li>
	<li>Most inspired details: 25% &nbsp;</li>
	<li>Relevance to contest theme: 25% &nbsp;</li>
	<li>Best use of LEGO elements: 25% &nbsp;</li>
</ul>

<h3>The Fine Print</h3>

<ul>
	<li>You must be at least 13 years of age to participate and enter. &nbsp;</li>
	<li>You may submit multiple entries to the contest, but only one entry per person will be considered when winners are selected. This means you cannot win as a semi-finalist and as the grand prize winner with two different entries.  &nbsp;</li>
	<li><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><span>Winners will be contacted on the email address associated with their LEGO ID account after March 29th, 2022. Winners will be announced on LEGO Ideas when all winners have returned the signed Winner&rsquo;s Certification Documents. A winner who does not return their Winner&rsquo;s Certification Document within one week (5 days) of receiving it will be disqualified, and a new winner will be selected</span></span></span></li>
	<li>Active participation by way of submissions of any kind to this Contest is not open to residents of Iran, North Korea, Myanmar/Burma, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Syria, Russia or any other country which is subjected to sanctions and where prohibited or restricted by law, for as long as such sanctions remain in place. Submissions in active contests by residents of Russia will unfortunately not be eligible for prizes as long as sanctions remain in place.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>If you are a resident of Ukraine or Belarus and are selected as a contest winner, your prizes will be shipped at a later date once shipping resumes normal operation.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>By entering the contest, you agree to follow the rules on this Contest Brief&nbsp;page&nbsp;and you agree to the LEGO Ideas <a href="https://ideas.lego.com/terms" target="_blank">Terms of Service</a>.   &nbsp;</li>
	<li>This contest is offered, organized and run solely by the LEGO Group. Participants should direct all queries and matters relating to the contest to LEGO Ideas.</li>
</ul>

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<h2><a id="prizes" name="prizes">Prizes:</a><img alt="" src="https://ideascdn.lego.com/community/media_library/1/5037118-IDEAS-Moments-in-Space-Grand-Prize-cGZcrSguz5JM0g-thumbnail-full.png"></h2>

<h3>There will be&nbsp;one&nbsp;Grand Prize Winner&nbsp;who&nbsp;will&nbsp;receive:</h3>

<ul>
	<li><span><span style="color:black;">Adventures of the AIA (A custom build by Ekow)</span></span></li>
	<li>75252 Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer</li>
	<li>21321 LEGO Ideas International Space Station</li>
	<li>76186 LEGO Marvel Superheroes Black Panther Dragon Flyer</li>
	<li>10283 Creator Expert NASA Space Shuttle Discovery</li>
</ul>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

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<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3>Two Runner Up winners will each receive: &nbsp;</h3>

<ul>
	<li>21321 LEGO Ideas International Space Station</li>
	<li>76186 LEGO Marvel Superheroes Black Panther Dragon Flyer</li>
	<li>10283 Creator Expert NASA Space Shuttle Discovery</li>
</ul>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

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<h2>Frequently Asked Questions</h2>

<p>For more information, see the <a href="https://legoideas.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/topics/145225-contests">Contest&nbsp;FAQ</a>.</p>
