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Features
- Implementing a Community RSS Feed
- Public Relations Documents: Templates to Use for Your Community Publicity Plan
- Calendar for Community Leaders
Administration
- LCR Web site
- Jackie Damrau: LCR volunteer of the year
- New associate fellows nominations encouraged
- New STC mission statement
- Bylaws forum recording
- Send contact info to office
- How to contact STC
- Letter to the editor
Communities
- New manager of community relations
- New survey policy for communities
- Liability policy
- Community funding
- Chapter financial reports due
- Ask the office
- New chapter, SIG approved
Competitions
- STC's Newsletter Competition
- STC's Public Relations Competition
- Educational outreach through student competitions
- Advice for competition managers
- Competition contacts
Elections
Events
Honors and Awards
STC Conference
Leadership Links
Competitions
Educational Outreach through Student Competitions
By Candice McKee, Manager, ISTCC, and Senior Member, Oklahoma State University Chapter
Hosting a high school competition is a great way for your chapter to promote technical communication in your community and to further your educational outreach efforts. STC encourages and supports such programs at the international level through the International Student Technical Communication Competition (ISTCC). Winners of chapter-sponsored competitions are eligible to compete for recognition and cash awards in ISTCC. The competition is open to students in grades ten through twelve in the United States or the equivalent levels in other countries (qualified entrants will typically be fifteen to eighteen years old when they write their entry). Students can submit papers and Web site content that they have completed between June 1, 2006, and March 1, 2008.
The deadline for submitting winners from the chapter-level competitions to the ISTCC is March 15, 2008. Submit entries to ISTCC, c/o Candice McKee, English Department, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034, USA. Professional technical communicators will judge entries, awarding cash prizes of $1,000 for Distinguished, $500 for Excellence, and $300 for Merit. Additionally, the winners’ high school libraries will receive a free one-year subscription to Intercom. Other entrants are eligible for honorable mention.
If your chapter plans to host a high school competition this year, complete the ISTCC chapter-sponsor form, available from the STC Web site, and send it to the Society office by September 17, 2007. If your chapter is not hosting a high school competition, let interested students in your area know that they can submit entries to other chapters doing so. The list of chapters hosting high school competitions and their deadlines for entry will be posted on the ISTCC page of the STC Web site in early October.
The complete ISTCC guidelines are also available on the STC Web site. For additional information, contact Candice McKee, ISTCC Manager, +1 (405) 714-1168.