2009-2010 Student Video Competition
IEEE-USA
"How Engineers Make a World of Difference"
Online Video Scholarship
Competition for Undergraduates
$5,000 in Scholarship Awards
to Be Presented in 2009-10 IEEE-USA Online Engineering Video Competition
IEEE-USA is launching the organization's third online engineering video
competition for undergraduate students on "How Engineers Make a World of
Difference." IEEE-USA will present four scholarship awards totaling $5,000 to
undergraduates who create the most effective 90-second video clips reinforcing
for an 11-to-13-year-old audience how engineers improve the world. Entries
must be submitted through YouTube by midnight Eastern Time on Friday, 15 January
2010. Winning entries will be announced and shown during Engineers Week,
14-20 February 2010.
Entries in the 2009-10 competition should provide an individual profile of an
engineer and how s/he makes "a world of difference." Entries will be judged on
their effectiveness in reaching the target audience by portraying engineers as "real people" who seek to make life better, as well on their originality,
creativity and entertainment value. Show today's youngsters how "engineers turn
ideas into reality."First prize is $2,000; second
prize, $1,500; and third prize, $1,000.
The first-place winner will also receive up to $1,000 to cover travel expenses
to accept his/her award at the IEEE-USA Annual Meeting in Nashville on 6 March
2010. In addition, a special award for $500 will be given for the most
innovative and effective presentation of a video entry to a target "tweener"
audience. This could involve presenting the video entered in the competition at
a university engineering expo for K-12 students, in a middle school classroom,
with a scout group, or in another setting with 11-to-13 year-olds.
For the first time, the
competition is open to all U.S. undergraduate students regardless of academic
discipline. However, at
least one undergraduate participant must be an IEEE Student Member. Entries can
be provided by individuals or teams. More than one video entry is permissible.
For the third consecutive year, the competition will be judged by two
engineering graduate Ph.D. students, Andrew Quecan and Suzette Aguilar; and by
Nate Ball, engineer-host for PBS' "Design Squad."
Four Steps to Compete & Win:
(1) Include a brief self introduction at the beginning of your 90-second video
in which you state your name, your college or university, and the degree you are
pursuing or receiving, as well as the name of at least one IEEE Student Member
on your team. (2) Indicate that you give IEEE-USA the right to use your video,
and that you are incorporating non-copyrightable materials. (3) If you choose
to be considered for the special award for presentation of a video entry,
include in the introduction to your 90-second video: a short description of the
event you chose, how your video was incorporated into the event, the number of
students reached, how the students responded, and other impacts of the
presentation, such as the publicity generated. (4) Upload your video to
"YouTube" at
www.youtube.com
and send the link to
video@ieeeusa.org.
Web Help: Even if you haven't uploaded a video to YouTube, you should
still consider entering the competition. Test your video with brothers and
sisters or friends' siblings who are part of the target age group. Look at
previous awards winners on YouTube. For tips on how to make a video on YouTube, see
www.youtube.com//t/howto_makevideo.
Information on how to become an IEEE Student Member is available at
www.ieee.org/web/membership/join/join.html.
IEEE-USA advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy
interests of more than 210,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals
who are U.S. members of IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of IEEE, the world's largest
technical professional society with 375,000 members in 160 countries. See
www.ieeeusa.org.
Updated:
24 September 2009
Contact: Pender M. McCarter,
p.mccarter@ieee.org
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