IEEE Home Search IEEE Shop Web Account Contact IEEE IEEE
 

IEEE-USA Home: Communications

Quick Links
For the Media
News Releases
Media Relations Contacts
IEEE-USA In the News
IEEE-USA Officer Profiles

Public Awareness
Mass Media Fellows
Student Video Competition
EWeek
New Faces of Engineering
AIP's Discoveries and Breakthroughs

Publications
IEEE-USA E-Books
Presidents Column
Today's Engineer
Eye on Washington
IEEE-USA Annual Reports
 
2008 2007 2006
2005 2004  
Professional Guideline Series
Web site Features
Other News Sources

 

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.
 

2008-2009 Winners

First Place
University of Texas-Austin


http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=I6WPplW1zlk
Second Place
Louisiana Tech
University-Ruston


http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=DQUgObcKSAw
Third Place
Indiana University at Purdue University Indianapolis

http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=0UB0uPFipTk

2007-2008 Winners

First Place
Louisiana Tech University

www.youtube.com/
watch?v=UZM779jJJFo
Second Place
University of Florida

www.youtube.com/
watch?v=2r3jEHm8kj8
Third Place
Texas Tech University

www.youtube.com/
watch?v=iaHmU0wT0Rg


 

Updated:  24 September 2009
Contact: Pender M. McCarter, p.mccarter@ieee.org

 

 Copyright © 2010 IEEE

Terms & Conditions - Privacy and Security - Nondiscrimination Policy - Contacts/Info