Photos from Last Year's Competition

Student Poster Sessions Materials

This year the Academic Community will again sponsor Student Poster Sessions.  This year Tori Sadler and her team have updated the Call for Posters, which is included on this page. Like last year's winners, this year's winners will receive awards of $200 (First Place), $150 (Second Place), $100 (Third Place) and $50 (Fourth Place).  In addition, the Academic Community will support the top 8 presenters with $50 stipends to help offset the cost of attending. The conference dates this year (June 1-4, 2008) are convenient for student travel, and we hope a number of students in the over 125 technical communication programs in North America and world wide will participate.

Poster Session Theme

"Share Your Wisdom, Knowledge and Experience" If you’ve done innovative work in communicating technical content, managing a technical communication group, producing and publishing content, researching content, or promoting the profession, we invite you to submit a proposal to the Technical Communication Summit, the 55th Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication.

Format: Poster format will be 3 feet by 5 feet.  Posters should follow standard poster formats with easy to read columns, large print, and strategic and interesting use of graphics.  You can obtain poster format templates from a number of Internet locations, including http://www.postersession.com/.  You will, like all presenters, be responsible for producing your own handouts.

Funding: The top four posters, which will be chosen by judges at the conference, will receive cash awards and, we hope, additional incentives from vendors. In addition, the Academic Community provides a $50 stipend to the top eight student poster presenters whose posters are selected for display. (The stipend is to be applied to conference attendance costs.)

Criteria and Number:  The number of posters will be limited to 15 for this year.  Poster proposals submitted will be reviewed by a panel of both academics and practitioners and will be selected on the following criteria:

Clarity and professional presentation of:

·        Knowledge: What you learned and applied in service-learning projects and real-world client projects tied to class work

·        Experiences : What you learned through internships and working as technical communicators that you were able to reflect on as students

·        Research Results:  Knowledge that you created through usability, survey, interview, and other class and education-related research

·        Best Practices: Activities associated with publications management, content management, document design, usability testing, or user or audience analysis that put your class experience to work in the real world.

Deadlines

• January 15, 2008:  Poster submission
• February 15, 2008:  Notification of selection

 How to Submit

Send a .pdf of your poster and the Student Poster Application Form to the Student Poster Session Coordinator, Victoria Sadler, at Victoria.sadler@metrostate.edu 

Photos of 2007 posters Student Poster Competition Photos

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