NHD Online Registration for Students & Parents

BEFORE YOU BEGIN, PLEASE NOTE: Unless you have participated in a previous contest and registered on a similar system prior to this event, your teacher will be required to enter some basic information about you and your entry before you can begin registration. Please check with your teacher to confirm that this has been done.

From the NHD Online Registration welcome page, select the appropriate NHD Contest from the list of available contests. If you don't see your contest listed, the online registration period may not yet have begun for that particular event, so check back again, once the registration period has opened. If you feel this is an error, contact your local NHD Contest coordinator.
Choose Competing Students from the Registrant Type drop-down list, and click the Submit button.
Log into the system.
1. If you are registering for a contest for the first time in this school year, select the link “Don't have a username and password? Click here to begin...”
  1. In order to set-up a username and password, your teacher should have already entered some basic information about you, including the state in which your school is located; your name; and last four digits of the your home phone number. The system will ask you to re-enter this information in order to identify your record in the system. Once you have entered the requested information, click the Submit button...
  2. The next page will ask you to confirm that the record it is displaying is you.
    - If you select "no", the system will ask you try entering your information again. If you have 3 failed attempts, you will need to check with your teacher to verify that your student account has been set up.
    - If you select "yes", you can proceed to the next step.
  3. Establish a username and password for yourself; write it down, and keep it in a safe place. After setting up your username and password, you will automatically be taken to your Student Registration Status Page.
2. If you have previously registered through the NHD Online Registration system during this school year (typically, for a previous round of the contest from which your entry is advancing), you already will have created a username and password for yourself. Enter this same username and password on the log-in page to access your NHD Online Registration Profile, as well as information about your Entry, both of which have been advanced to this next level of the contest. Once you're logged in, you can move on to the next step.
Each time you log in, you will be directed to your Student Registration Status Page. Please, take time to read the instructions on the page, and study the requested information. Each field required to complete registration has a red asterisk (*) next to it. As you complete each step of registration, a green checkmark will appear to the left of each item, signifying its completion.
Click the “Who Are You [NAME]...” link and review your personal information that your teacher provided when s/he initiated the online registration, to make sure it is accurate. Complete any missing personal information with the help of one of your parents or guardians.
Your entry should appear as a link in the Entry Information section. Check the accuracy of any information about your Entry that your teacher provided. Make changes and/or add missing information to your Entry record, and then click the “Save...” button when finished.
- If you have a Web Category Entry, please make sure you put your Weebly.com ID number in the appropriate field or your entry will not be judged. (You should have obtained the Weebly ID number when you first set up your Weebly NHD Web Category account at Weebly.com.)
In addition to your personal and Entry information, you may be asked to complete additional information as part of the Online Registration process, such as a Statement of Originality or special award nominations. If this is the case, remember to click on any such supplemental links, which will take you to the relevant forms in order to provide this additional information.
You may be asked to provide contact information for one of your parents/guardians. Do this by clicking on the “Register a Parent/Family Member...” link and, with a parent's help, complete this information. If this link is present, only one parent/guardian is required but you can add as many parents or family members as needed.

If the “Parent/Guardian Permission for Student Participation...” link is present, one of your parent(s)/guardian(s) will need to view the linked information, and agree (via the “click-acknowledgment”) with the permission language of the Liability Agreement, Media Agreement, and/or Permission to Participate. Once finished, click the “Save...” button.
Once you have completed all of the registration items, please click the “eMail me a confirmation of my registration...” button at the bottom of the status page. By doing so, a summary of your current registration information will be sent to your PREFERRED EMAIL ADDRESS. If you do not receive the summary in a timely manner, be sure to check your Registration Profile, and verify that you correctly entered your preferred eMail address.
Check with your sponsoring teacher to find out whether your school is going to cover any of your expenses, or whether your parent(s)/guardian(s) will be responsible for some or all of your fees. If your parent or guardian will be paying for your fees, click the green “Ready to Pay? Click to Confirm Registration and Review Fee Summary...” button at the bottom of your Student Registration Status Page.

In Step 1 of the payment process, check the small square boxes to the left of each registration item for which you'll be paying...

In Step 2, review the fee summary, and enter your payment information.
In Step 3, print out a copy of the confirmation screen (or, you may choose to print the payment confirmation that is emailed to your PREFERRED EMAIL ADDRESS). This will show a summary of your fees; be sure to mail it in with your check or purchase order.

Once the requisite payment(s) have been submitted, your online registration is complete!

REMEMBER: You can log back into your Student Registration Status Page at anytime to check on the progress of payments submitted or to retrieve a copy of your receipt.

To do so, simply click on the “View your payment history...” link, found in the red box at the top of your Student Registration Status Page.
A new window will open, with a list of payments submitted during the registration process. The far right column indicates whether or not your NHD Contest Coordinator has received the payment.

To obtain a receipt for a particular payment, click on the “Details...” link in the left column, and you will see an itemized list of the fees covered by that payment.
If you wish, you may eMail this payment summary to yourself, or to others, by entering an eMail address in the field at the bottom of the page and clicking “Send...”.