There is just one category: The General (open source, open standards) category. The Young Creators Award (YCA) is a sub-category of the General category so all the same rules apply to it.

We’re looking for people with great ideas who don’t quite know how to make them happen, or people who have an exciting idea they want to test. You just have to use digital news and information in a new way to create a sense of community for people in a given geographic area.