Get Ready Schools Challenge

Competition period

• The competition runs from 4 May 2026 – 12 June 2026
• Registrations for the Get Ready Schools Challenge open on 4 May 2026 and close on 12 June 2026. Registrations after 12 June 2026 will not be eligible for the prize draws.

Prize draw entry

• To enter the prize draw, each entrant must:
  • register for the Get Ready Schools Challenge before 12 June 2026
  • provide students with the Challenge to complete
• You can only submit one Entry during the Competition Period and each entrant can only win one prize.
• You are responsible for ensuring that any information provided as part of an Entry is complete and correct. Incomplete, incorrect, indecipherable, illegible or late entries will be invalid.
• The National Emergency Management Agency reserves the right, at any time, to verify the validity of Entries and entrants, and to disqualify any entrant who submits an Entry that is not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions or who tampers with the entry process. Failure by the National Emergency Management Agency to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute waiver of those rights.

Regions

• Registrations are split into the following 15 Regions. Each Region will have a separate Prize Draw and Prize.
  • Northland
  • Auckland
  • Waikato
  • Bay of Plenty
  • Tairāwhiti
  • Taranaki
  • Manawatū-Whanganui
  • Hawke’s Bay
  • Wellington
  • Nelson-Tasman
  • Marlborough
  • West Coast
  • Canterbury / Chatham Islands
  • Otago
  • Southland

Prize Draw

• The National Emergency Management Agency will use its best endeavours to contact each winner as soon as possible by using the contact details supplied in each Winning Entry within 5 business days from the prize draw.
• By providing your personal information as part of your Entry you consent to that information be shared with your local Civil Defence Emergency Management Group for the purpose of contacting you if you are a Winning Entry.
• If the National Emergency Management Agency or local Civil Defence Emergency Management Group cannot contact any winner to arrange the delivery of a prize within a reasonable timeframe, they may redraw for the relevant prize.
• Winners may be announced on the Get Ready website, NZ Civil Defence Facebook  page and by the local Civil Defence Emergency Management Group.
• All decisions regarding this Competition by the National Emergency Management Agency will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Prize(s)

• Each Entry will go in the draw to win one of fifteen Apple iPads. 
• One Winning Entry from each of the Regions will receive an Apple iPad.
• The prizes cannot be transferred, exchanged or redeemed for cash. 

General

• Personal information collected by the National Emergency Management Agency for the purposes of the Competition will only be used in connection with this Competition or as otherwise set out in these Terms and Conditions.
• You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong, or ask for it to be deleted from our records.
• The National Emergency Management Agency may share names of participating schools with local Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups, Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake, New Zealand Police, Hato Hone St John, Wellington Free Ambulance and Fire and Emergency New Zealand.
• If you are a prize winner, you agree to participate in publicity organised by the National Emergency Management Agency and you also agree to the use of your first name and school for publicity and promotional purposes for a period of up to three years in any media, without compensation. This includes, but is not limited to, social media and event websites and media releases in connection with the Competition.
• The National Emergency Management Agency reserves the right to terminate, suspend or modify the Competition in response to technical failures, fraud or any other factors out of the reasonable control of the National Emergency Management Agency. Any such updates will be displayed on the Get Ready website.