communication department

Volume XX Number 9

CAA Deadline Extended to April 3

The deadline for submitting entries for the community achievement awards (CAA) has been extended to April 3. This annual competition is open to STC geographic communities, student communities, and Society-level special interest groups (SIGs). Note that, beginning in 2006, all applications must be submitted electronically; hardcopy notebooks will no longer be accepted. Submit applications and all supporting materials by either sending an e-mail with files as attachments to Peg Cottrell or recording the files on a CD and shipping it to the following address:

Society for Technical Communication
Attn: Community Achievement Awards
901 North Stuart Street, Suite 904
Arlington VA 22203

STC will distribute all entries to members of the community achievement award evaluation committee via e-mail. Community leaders can download the Guidelines for Community Achievement Awards (AD-116-2005) and entry form templates from the STC Web site. Once the award application is complete, geographic and student community leaders may have their regional director, and SIG leaders may have the assistant to the president for virtual communities, review their applications before submitting them to the Society office. (E-mail addresses for directors and assistants to the president are listed on the STC Web site.) For an entry to qualify for the Distinction award, all activities listed for the Merit and Excellence awards must be checked off or a substituted activity must be listed for them. (The list of substituted activities must be accompanied by a written message of approval from the appropriate regional director or assistant to the president for virtual communities.)

If you have any questions about the community achievement awards, please contact your regional director or AP for virtual communities.