Official event rules.

Organizer and scope

Molecular Hydrogen Institute (MHI or Organizer) operates the Wellness Science Initiative (WSI) as a program under MHI. WSI is not a separate legal entity. These event-specific terms govern the in-person 2026 Olympiad and Community Challenge, not the separate completed online Challenge.

Organizer mailing address: Molecular Hydrogen Institute, 4955 N Ashlee Ct, Enoch, UT 84721, United States. Event and privacy contact: May Anderson, events@molecularhydrogeninstitute.org. On-site desk: the WSI booth, shared with InhaleH2 and H2Tab, at Eudēmonia in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Product donors, exhibitors, and venue providers retain responsibility for their own products and services. Kahoot! provides the quiz platform; it is not the organizer or prize provider. Sponsor support does not control questions, correct answers, scoring, or scientific conclusions.

Eligibility and access

• An entrant must be at least 18 when participating and must be an Eudēmonia attendee lawfully admitted to the applicable event areas. Residents of other countries may participate; prize receipt remains subject to applicable law and the delivery restrictions disclosed below.
• There is no separate WSI entry fee. A purchase, donation, sales appointment, product demonstration, or sponsor marketing opt-in is not required. Gift-bag eligibility does require a WSI community post and a social-media post as described below. Eudēmonia’s venue admission, badge, and access requirements apply separately.
• One real person may use one participant identity. Keep the same name and registration email across quizzes, booth verification, and finalist check-in. Provide accurate contact information. MHI may verify age, event attendance, identity, completion, and scores using proportionate evidence.
• A participant may compete in the Olympiad and earn one gift bag. Being a sponsor representative, exhibitor, employee, contractor, volunteer, or relative does not automatically exclude someone; the same eligibility, impartiality, and conduct standards apply.
• Anyone with nonpublic access to competition questions, answers, score controls, or finalist selection must disclose that access to MHI before competing. Such access may not be used for advantage. MHI must resolve the conflict, for example by replacing compromised questions or separating duties. A person whose conflict cannot be resolved may participate in educational activities but cannot receive an award based on the compromised contest.

A restriction or disqualification must be based on a published rule and documented circumstances, applied consistently. Nothing in these terms permits discrimination prohibited by law.

Event schedule and required activities

The programs operate at Eudēmonia in West Palm Beach, Florida. All dates below are in 2026 and all times are Eastern Time. The designated platform timestamp, or a staff-documented backup timestamp, is the official clock.

Quizzes open on the morning of Friday, November 6. The precise opening time will be displayed in the app before access opens. All required quizzes, booth visits, community and social-media posts, Olympiad opt-ins, and required completion proof must be completed and submitted by 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 7. Community points continue to accrue after that task cutoff until 9:30 a.m. Eastern on Sunday, November 8, under the seven-day points period below. Sunday points do not excuse an incomplete or late required task.

The Kahoot lightning round begins at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, November 8, at the WSI booth shared with InhaleH2 and H2Tab. Check in at the booth or use the app to register and review event instructions. Finalists must be physically present and verified before the scored round begins; app registration does not replace attendance at the final.

Finalist results and attendance instructions are posted in the app and available at the WSI desk after qualifying records are checked. An unresolved verification or scoring concern is addressed before confirming an affected award.

Gift bags are collected in person at the WSI booth, first come, first served among eligible attendees whose required activities and proof have been verified, while the 250 bags last. Complete and submit all requirements by the Saturday 6:00 p.m. cutoff. Collection is available during staffed booth hours, which are posted in the app and at the desk. No shipping or automatic reservation is included.

The app identifies the mandatory quizzes and participating booths, the activity checklist, and the point values and earning rules. These schedules form part of the rules and must be visible before participation begins. The Prize Schedule must also be completed before the relevant award program opens. A required activity or scoring weight may not be added retrospectively.

Use the GHL community app for activity records and post verification. Present the original post or its link or screenshot in the app or at the WSI desk; an expiring story must be verified while it is available. The social platform must permit the activity, and the incentive disclosure in these rules is required. If a required booth or app function is unavailable, contact staff before the cutoff. Staff-verified paper booth passports and designated Google Forms quizzes are the backup records; use the same identity, questions, scoring and cutoff. A participant may not obtain a second scored attempt by switching systems.

For assistance, collection, or a correction request, visit the WSI booth shared with InhaleH2 and H2Tab, or contact May Anderson at events@molecularhydrogeninstitute.org. Staff must retain backup evidence and reconcile it before determining rankings. Any equivalent accessibility arrangement must be documented and applied fairly.

Olympiad qualification and opt-in

• Complete every required Olympiad quiz by the published quiz cutoff using your single participant identity. All entrants receive the same required quiz questions and scoring weights. Only the first valid completed submission for each quiz counts; learning retakes do not replace it. Staff-authorized technical recovery is documented separately.
• Answer “Yes” to “Do you want to participate in the Olympiad?” by the published quiz cutoff. Only opted-in entrants enter the finalist selection pool. A “No,” blank response, or missing recorded consent means the attendee will not be invited to the live round, even with the highest quiz score. An attendee may change the preference before the cutoff, but not after the selection pool is frozen.
• Rank eligible, opted-in entrants first by the total number of correct answers across required quizzes, highest first. Incorrect, blank, and timed-out answers receive no qualifying credit. Use verified community points at the published Olympiad snapshot cutoff to break a tie in qualifying quiz totals. Community points do not allow a lower quiz score to displace a higher quiz score.
• The target is 25 finalists. Identify the group tied at the 25th position after applying BOTH quiz total and community points. If admitting that entire remaining tied group results in no more than 40 finalists, invite the entire group. MHI may not admit only selected members of an indistinguishable tied group.
• If that remaining tied group would bring the field above 40, entrants ranked strictly above the boundary group retain their places. The boundary group answers additional common timed skill questions, under equal conditions, to fill no more than the remaining places within the 40-person limit. Continue with new common skill questions as needed until the required places are resolved. No coin toss, drawing, sponsor preference, or arrival-time tie-break is used.
• Qualifying quiz totals and community points determine advancement only. They do not carry into the scored Kahoot lightning round. All finalists start the final at zero.
• Finalists must check in in person by the published deadline. A declining, ineligible, or absent finalist may be replaced only by the next eligible opted-in entrant, applying the same ordered criteria and tie procedure. No new entrant joins after the scored final begins. Staff link each Kahoot identity to the verified participant registration.

The published rules must state the community-points snapshot time and the point-earning rules before entry opens. Quiz rank, community points, opt-in status, and any extra skill questions must be retained in an auditable finalist-selection record.

Because the points snapshot and scheduled live-round session both occur at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, the host first freezes and verifies the snapshot, confirms finalists, and resolves any qualifying tie-break. Scored Kahoot play begins only after those steps are complete. Any resulting adjustment to the scored start is announced at the booth and in the app.

Kahoot lightning round and tie-breaks

• Each of the admitted finalists (normally 25, up to 40 after tie handling) competes individually and starts the live round with zero points. Everyone receives the same scored questions in the same order and the same platform-configured answer window for each question. No question is worth double points, and no power-up, randomized bonus, or team advantage is used.
• The lightning round uses Kahoot Classic with standard, single-answer multiple-choice questions, up to 1,000 points each. A correct answer earns points under Kahoot’s standard correctness-and-response-time formula; an incorrect or unanswered response earns zero. Equal timers do not mean speed is ignored.
• The question count and per-question timer settings must be fixed and announced before the scored round begins. Timers can differ between questions only if every finalist receives the same timer for that question. A practice question must be clearly unscored.
• Verified cumulative Kahoot points rank finalists from highest to lowest. The top 10 eligible finalists receive awards, subject to tie resolution and verification. The downloaded full game report, rather than only Kahoot’s on-screen podium, is retained to document all ten places.
• Any tied score affecting entry into the top 10, first place, or prize-selection order is resolved among the affected finalists using additional common timed skill questions. Tie-break play starts at zero for that tied group, uses the same announced scoring settings for everyone in the group, and continues until the required order is resolved. Original standings outside the tied group do not change.
• No prize is assigned randomly. The host must announce results as provisional until eligibility, scores, and material ties have been checked.

Participants must alert the host promptly to a suspected recording error and before prize selection closes. A written scoring concern may be submitted to the event desk within 15 minutes of the provisional final ranking. The administrator reviews the relevant records with a second staff member and documents the outcome. An objection is not an opportunity to retake a completed question merely because the answer was wrong.

Prize inventory and selection

• First place receives one InhaleH₂ unit and one cold plunge. The remaining places, second through tenth, receive one product each.
• The stated inventory is six InhaleH₂ units and five cold plunges. Once first place receives one of each, five InhaleH₂ units and four cold plunges remain for the other nine winners.
• Winners select in finishing order, second place first, from the remaining inventory. Once a product type runs out, remaining winners receive the other type. Resolve any tied rank that affects a choice before selection.
• An award is personal to the verified winner. There is no cash alternative, resale promise, or organizer-funded exchange. A winner may decline; the award then passes to the next eligible finisher in the final ranking using the same allocation process. No entrant receives a second award because another winner declines.
• The Prize Schedule identifies each product provider, model, quantity, new or demonstration-unit condition, approximate retail value, and applicable warranty or support terms. First place’s previously described approximately $12,000 value is an estimate; the actual listed products and their verified values govern. MHI must confirm all six InhaleH₂ units and five cold plunges before opening the Olympiad.
• MHI will award the prizes actually offered. A substitution is allowed only when a stated prize is genuinely unavailable for a reason outside MHI’s reasonable control, is permitted by applicable law, and provides an item of equal or greater approximate retail value. It does not authorize reducing the number of promised awards.

Manufacturer instructions, applicable warnings, and product-use restrictions apply. MHI does not make medical claims or recommend a prize as suitable for a particular person. Participation requires no product use, treatment, physical challenge, or medical disclosure. Manufacturer warranties are not waived by these terms.

Prize acceptance and international shipping

• A provisional winner must give staff a usable email address at the event. MHI will send a written award and fulfillment notice within five calendar days after verification. The winner has 10 calendar days after that email to accept or decline and provide the requested eligibility and tax documents. Staff must explain an unavailable or incorrect email before applying a missed-notice forfeiture.
• Accepting an award requires proof of eligibility, confirmation of the chosen prize, a valid delivery or pickup arrangement, and any tax documentation lawfully required. Identification and tax information must be collected through an appropriate secure process, not a public leaderboard or booth sign-up sheet.
• The winner is responsible for all international freight, export or import charges, customs brokerage, duties, destination taxes, permits, and any required international delivery insurance. MHI does not promise that every product can legally or practically be shipped to every country.
• Before an international winner accepts a shipping arrangement, provide an itemized written estimate and explain who is responsible for booking, customs, and delivery. The winner may arrange lawful U.S. pickup or another lawful delivery address instead. Declining an unaffordable or unavailable international arrangement does not entitle the entrant to cash.
• No international shipment will be made in violation of applicable export, sanctions, customs, or destination-country product requirements. Residence alone does not bar entry, but a winner must be able to receive the product lawfully. If no lawful agreed arrangement can be completed, the prize is declined and passes to the next eligible finisher.
• MHI covers standard domestic shipping within the United States for awarded prizes. Winners remain responsible for applicable taxes. Domestic delivery arrangements will be confirmed with each winner before shipment. Installation, maintenance, utilities, accessories, training subscriptions, and other services are included only if the prize schedule expressly lists them.

Prizes that require later freight delivery need a written expected delivery window. A delay is not permission to avoid a promised award. The prize provider’s and MHI’s obligations remain subject to applicable law; a carrier disclaimer does not waive statutory delivery rights.

Taxes, documentation and withholding

Each winner is responsible for taxes lawfully imposed on the winner in connection with an award, including applicable U.S. federal, state, local, and foreign taxes, duties, and reporting obligations. MHI does not pay or gross up a winner’s personal taxes unless the published prize schedule expressly says otherwise.

This allocation does not waive MHI’s own legal reporting, withholding, remittance, or recordkeeping obligations. MHI may require a valid Form W-9, Form W-8BEN, or other appropriate documentation, apply a legally available treaty benefit where properly documented, and withhold or otherwise make lawful arrangements for required tax withholding before transferring a noncash prize. MHI’s tax professional must determine the actual treatment; these rules do not set a blanket withholding rate for every winner.

A winner must not be asked to pay an arbitrary “release,” “processing,” or tax fee. Any amount requested for actual legally required withholding, or for an agreed international shipping arrangement, must be explained in writing. Prize values reported for tax purposes must reflect the applicable valuation rules, not an unverified promotional estimate.

Community Challenge and gift-bag eligibility

An eligible adult Eudēmonia attendee must complete ALL of the following before the published Community Challenge cutoff:

• Visit every participating booth listed as required on the final checklist and complete the WSI QR check-in or staff-verified equivalent.
• Complete every required quiz. A minimum quiz score is not required for a gift bag; the completion must be genuine and not a blank, automated, or proxy submission.
• Create at least one original, relevant post in the WSI community about the event, a learning takeaway, or a question. A copied template, emoji-only reply, or duplicate spam post does not meet this requirement.
• Create at least one original event-related social-media post on a platform whose promotion rules permit the activity, and provide a link or appropriate screenshot for verification. A story can count if staff can verify it before it expires. Do not require a positive review, product endorsement, untrue claim, tagging of an unrelated person, or disclosure of health information.
• Clearly disclose the incentive in the social post, for example: “I’m posting to qualify for a WSI gift bag and event prizes.” Put the disclosure where viewers will see it with the post, not behind a long hashtag list or only in a profile bio. For video or stories, make the disclosure readable in the content. The post must reflect the participant’s honest experience.
• Use the same participant identity and submit the required completion evidence through the announced verification process.

• The first 250 verified eligible attendees to present for collection at the WSI booth receive one gift bag each, first come, first served while supplies last. All required activities and proof must be completed and submitted by 6:00 p.m. Saturday, November 7. Staff record verified collection order; completing tasks alone does not reserve a bag.
• Report an unavailable required booth, QR code, or verification system to staff before the cutoff. Staff may record an actual visit or completed task with a dated manual record. Any accommodation or substitute activity must be applied consistently and documented.
• Staff manage one collection queue and record collection order fairly. If reliable records cannot distinguish a simultaneous claim to the final bag, use a common skill question under equal conditions, continuing if needed. No random drawing is used.
• Bags are collected in person during posted staffed booth hours at the WSI booth shared with InhaleH2 and H2Tab. Bags are not reserved or shipped. An eligible attendee who does not present while bags remain has no guaranteed allocation.
• One bag per person.
• An attendee may earn a gift bag and compete in the Olympiad if otherwise eligible. Answering “No” to the Olympiad opt-in does not exclude someone from gift bags.
• Bag contents and any specifically guaranteed items must be disclosed accurately. Product use is optional and subject to manufacturer restrictions. Sponsor marketing opt-in and purchases are not completion requirements.

The social-post format, acceptable platforms, required proof, and the final booth/quiz checklist must be published before participation opens. MHI must not require a platform activity that violates that platform’s promotion rules. A lawful, equivalent verification or accessibility arrangement must not be treated as a reason for arbitrary exclusion.

Each gift bag has a stated combined retail value of over $250. This is product value, not cash, credit or a resale guarantee. Actual contents and any specifically guaranteed items are listed in the Prize Schedule. Product restrictions and any expiry dates apply; no purchase or sponsor marketing opt-in is required.

Qualifying community points

Community points are the secondary tie-break after quiz scores when selecting Olympiad finalists. They do not carry into the Kahoot lightning round.

The Points Schedule identifies the qualifying activities, point values, earning period, treatment of existing balances, daily or event caps, authoritative system records, snapshot deadlines, corrections process, and any treatment of comments or engagement. The amounts and earning rules are fixed and disclosed before the applicable earning period begins. MHI may not introduce a new bonus or weighting after viewing results.

Eligible categories are designated course completion, original community participation, verified booth visits, and required quiz activities. Course, quiz, or booth activity is credited only when the published verification record exists; a repeated completion does not produce duplicate credit unless the Points Schedule explicitly and prospectively permits it. The system must support the published point values and categories.

No point purchases, donations, paid boosts, duplicate identities, fabricated visits, copied spam, bots, collusive engagement exchanges, or undisclosed discretionary bonus points. Any proposed course-access fee or paid activity affecting points must be resolved before entry opens; these rules do not authorize a paid advantage.

MHI retains the opening and closing snapshots and the relevant activity records so that the qualifying total can be reproduced. The leaderboard is provisional until duplicate or ineligible activity and relevant record errors are checked. An entrant may report a points-record concern to the WSI desk before the published review deadline. Corrections must be evidence-based and applied consistently.

Qualifying community points are earned from 9:30 a.m. Eastern on Sunday, November 1, 2026, until the closing snapshot at 9:30 a.m. Eastern on Sunday, November 8, 2026. Only activity recorded during this fixed seven-day period counts; lifetime totals and activity recorded at or after the closing snapshot do not count. This window applies to community points used for Olympiad qualifying-score tie-breaks. Required quizzes, booth visits, community and social posts, completion proof, Olympiad opt-ins still close Saturday, November 7 at 6:00 p.m. Eastern. Additional eligible community activity may earn points until the Sunday snapshot, but cannot cure a missed required-task deadline.

Point values and the treatment of likes and comments are the published rules displayed in the community app. Quality original posts may earn credit under those rules; spam, duplicate or artificial activity may be removed and its points excluded. Do not assume that an app automatically credits a course, booth visit or quiz unless its configured rule and supporting record do so.

At 9:30 a.m. Eastern on Sunday, November 8, MHI saves a dated leaderboard and the supporting activity records showing participant identity, qualifying period and point totals. This saved record freezes the eligible activity for ranking; later posts or engagement cannot change that ranking. Staff also preserve a record from the start of the period or enough dated activity history to exclude older points. Evidence-based corrections are logged with their reason and reviewer.

Conduct, integrity and conflicts

• No impersonation, duplicate identities, automated submissions, answer-key access, unauthorized collaboration, internet searches, AI assistance, screenshots or transmission of live answers, account sharing, system interference, or attempts to influence a judge or scorer. During the live round, personal devices may be used only as permitted by the host for Kahoot or an approved accommodation.
• Public educational material available equally to all entrants may be studied before a scored attempt. It may not be consulted during a closed-book scored attempt. Staff must state when an activity is unscored practice.
• A confirmed duplicate identity is consolidated or excluded under the announced first-valid-submission rule; it does not give extra chances. A disqualification for misconduct must identify the rule and supporting evidence and give the entrant a reasonable opportunity to explain before final prize reassignment, except when immediate action is necessary to protect safety or integrity.
• Staff, judges, or sponsor representatives must disclose a conflict and recuse themselves from decisions affecting their own score, family, or business. MHI must assign a different decision-maker.
• Participants must behave respectfully and follow lawful venue safety directions. Harassment, threats, deliberate disruption, or fraud may result in removal and, where relevant, exclusion under these rules.

MHI may correct an objectively wrong answer key or a proven transcription error consistently for everyone affected. It may not invent a scoring rule after seeing the results or arbitrarily reject a valid entrant.

Technical failures and accessibility

Participants should bring a compatible device with adequate power and complete the connection check. Request assistance or a reasonable disability accommodation at the event desk as early as practicable. MHI will consider reasonable arrangements under applicable law without requiring unnecessary medical details.

Report a technical failure promptly while staff can inspect it. For a material platform-wide failure, the host pauses scoring and records the interruption. A question whose results cannot be relied upon is voided for everyone affected, with an equivalent replacement question used under common conditions. A completed correct or incorrect answer is not erased merely because a participant dislikes the score.

For an individually verified failure that could affect a qualifying place or award, an impartial administrator must document an equitable skill-based recovery using new questions, affected entrants, and comparable conditions. Do not reconstruct a score from a participant’s claimed intended answer or let someone replay an exposed scored question for an advantage. MHI does not guarantee venue connectivity, but must administer any recovery consistently.

A genuine technical or safety emergency may require a documented pause or rescheduling. MHI will preserve earned results where reliable, provide reasonable notice, and comply with applicable prize obligations. These provisions do not permit unlimited cancellation, retroactive rule changes, or reduction of promised awards.

Privacy and sponsor communications

MHI uses the information reasonably needed to administer eligibility, quiz and booth completion, scoring, verification, participant communication, prize delivery, tax compliance, and fraud prevention. The event uses the participant identity, name, email, age-eligibility confirmation, relevant attendance records, scores, and completion timestamps; prize recipients may need to provide additional fulfillment and tax information.

Necessary service providers, Kahoot, relevant prize providers, and professional advisers may receive the minimum information needed for their roles. Sponsors do not automatically receive every participant’s contact information. A separate, specific opt-in is required for sponsor marketing sharing; refusal does not affect quiz scoring, finalist selection, bag eligibility, or prize eligibility. A direct scan of a sponsor’s own form may be governed by that sponsor’s separately displayed notice.

Public leaderboards and winner notices should use a first name and last initial or a chosen suitable display name, plus rank, unless additional identification is legally required. Do not publish birth dates, identification documents, tax numbers, personal addresses, or private delivery details. A legally required winner-record request must be handled proportionately and consistently with applicable law.

MHI retains administrative records only as reasonably necessary for event verification, disputes, legal obligations, and the purposes described in its Privacy Policy. Use Kahoot and other providers subject to their own privacy notices. Send access, correction, deletion, and marketing questions to events@molecularhydrogeninstitute.org. Legal retention obligations may limit deletion.

Venue photography rules apply separately. MHI should obtain a separate appropriate release for a planned testimonial, endorsement, or identifiable promotional feature rather than treating entry as unlimited permission to use a person’s name or likeness. Declining a voluntary marketing release does not invalidate an otherwise eligible award.

Read the WSI Privacy Policy, including website, app, advertising and contact choices.

Educational purpose and product terms

WSI provides educational activities, not medical diagnosis, treatment, or personalized professional advice. Participation, completion, winning, or sponsor recognition is not a professional credential, product certification, scientific approval, or endorsement. Evaluate product claims independently and consult an appropriately qualified professional when needed.

MHI is not the manufacturer of third-party prizes. Manufacturers’ instructions, warranties, and applicable product rights remain in force. To the extent permitted by law, MHI does not make an additional implied product warranty merely by facilitating a donated prize. This statement does not eliminate a warranty MHI actually makes or a right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Liability, concerns and governing law

To the extent permitted by applicable law, MHI and its event administrators are not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising solely from ordinary connectivity failures, a participant’s incorrect contact information, unauthorized third-party conduct, or a winner’s optional use of a third-party product. Any liability exclusion applies only to the extent the law allows and to the actual cause of the loss.

Nothing releases liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence where it cannot be released, unlawful discrimination, a statutory duty, or failure to deliver a promised prize as required by law. These rules do not impose a general participant indemnity for MHI’s own conduct, waive nonwaivable rights, or require a participant to abandon a regulator complaint.

First raise event-administration concerns with MHI at events@molecularhydrogeninstitute.org. MHI will review the available records impartially. Scoring review uses the process above; legal claims are not extinguished by missing an informal scoring-review window. No mandatory arbitration or class-action waiver is imposed by these rules.

The event-specific rules are interpreted under applicable Florida and federal law, subject to any mandatory rights that apply to a participant. Any court proceeding must be brought in a court with lawful jurisdiction and venue; these rules do not force every international attendee to waive a mandatory local protection. A legally invalid provision is severed only to the extent necessary, without rewriting scoring, eligibility, or prize promises.

Acceptance, records and interpretation

Before a scored entry or award-eligible submission, participants must be given a clear link to these rules and the incorporated schedules and must affirm that they are at least 18, meet the eligibility requirements, and accept the rules. MHI retains the consent version and timestamp. Consent to these event rules is separate from optional sponsor marketing consent.

For these in-person programs, these event-specific rules and their properly published schedules govern over conflicting promotional summaries. Archived online Challenge rules do not govern this event. A short advertisement cannot remove a material obligation or add a condition absent from the rules.

MHI will retain the published rules version and administrative records needed for prize verification and applicable legal obligations. Any legally permitted correction or emergency procedural change must be dated, communicated to affected participants, documented, and applied fairly. It may not be used to manipulate rankings, reduce promised awards, or avoid a legal obligation.