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The First Place award ($2,000) for the 2010 IEEE-USA Online Video Competition goes to Sergio Flores Castro, Miguel Murillo and Carolina Flores of UNLV. Check out their entry at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET3SDuY55s0.
During Engineers Week 2010, IEEE-USA will present four scholarship awards totaling $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate students who create the most effective 90-second video clips reinforcing for an 11-to-13-year-old audience on "How Engineers Make a World of Difference." Winners will be announced as part of an EWeek Web cast to college students from Howard University in Washington, DC, on Thursday, 18 February. In its third annual competition, IEEE-USA is awarding the following: first prize, $2,000; second, $1,500; and third, $1,000. A special award of $500 will be given for the most innovative and effective presentation of a video entry to the "tween" target audience. The three judge panel includes: Andrew Quecan, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering Stanford University; Suzette Aguilar, a Ph.D. student in radio frequency engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Nate Ball, mechanical engineer and host of PBS' Design Squad. The award winning entries will also be feature in the first nationwide Web-based gathering of engineering students, an "Engineers Week Blast!" live from Howard University in Washington, D.C. on 18 Feb. from 8-9 p.m. ET, at http://www.ibroadcasts.tv/asce-live-webcast.html.

