WASHINGTON (26 August 2008) -- IEEE-USA is launching the organization's
second online engineering video competition for undergraduate students on"How Engineers Make a World of Difference," and will award four scholarship
prizes totaling $5,000 to the undergraduates who create the most effective
90-second video clips aimed at an 11-to-13-year-old student audience. The
clips should reinforce engineers' contributions to the quality of life and
convey how engineering can be a creative and rewarding career. Winning
entries will be announced and shown during Engineers Week, 15-21 February
2009.
The competition is open to all U.S. undergraduate students in engineering,
computer science and information technology. Entries can be provided by
individuals or teams, with at least one undergraduate participant who is an
IEEE Student Member. More than one video entry is permissible.
Entries must be submitted through YouTube by midnight Eastern Time on
Friday, 16 January 2009. The competition will be judged by two engineering
graduate students, Andrew Quecan and Suzette Presas; and Nate Ball,
engineer-host for PBS' "Design Squad."
For more information on how to enter the IEEE-USA Online Engineering Video
Scholarship Competition and to upload an entry on YouTube, go to:
http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/video_competition
To view the IEEE.tv program on the first 2007-2008 IEEE-USA competition, go
to: http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/IEEEtv/about.html
IEEE-USA has been actively involved in promoting public awareness of
engineers and engineering since 1981. Working in tandem with its sister
organizations, IEEE-USA has helped to foster and maintain a positive image
of engineers and engineering through a variety of programs aimed at
specific audiences using targeted media.
For more information on IEEE-USA's public-awareness program, see
http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/default.asp
IEEE-USA advances the public good and promotes the careers and public
policy interests of more than 215,000 engineers, scientists and allied
professionals who are U.S. members of the IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of the
IEEE, the world's largest technical professional society with 375,000
members in 160 countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.
CONTACT:
Pender M. McCarter
IEEE-USA Senior PR Counselor
+ 1 202 530
8353
p.mccarter@ieee.org
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