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SNDF Offers Student Travel Grants for Denver 2010 Convention
The Society for News Design Foundation offers students grants to help them attend the Annual Workshop and Exhibition, in Denver on Sept. 23-25. Each grant covers the $220 registration fee to the Workshop as well as a $500 travel stipend. Grant recipients agree to volunteer at least four hours assisting on-site, either with conference logistics or live Web coverage.
Fill out and submit the application form online.
Deadline for applicaitons is May 29, 2010.
SNDF Scholarship Applications Posted
Each year, Society for News Design Foundation awards the SND Foundation Scholarship to a deserving students interested in and showing promise for pursuing a career in visual journalism. The cash award is $2,000.
This award is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors at any accredited four-year school worldwide. The student must be a member in good standing of the Society for News Design. the annual award is renewable once, but recipients must re-apply for consideration.
The scholarship recognizes potential for excellence in print, interactive design and both.
• All applicants must be a journalism major or major in a field of related study with the intent of pursuing a career in visual journalism.
• All applicants will be assessed on four areas: talent, scholarship, service and character.
Best of collegiate design winners announced
This year's College Media Advisers "Best of Collegiate Design" competition attracted 1,281 entries from 77 schools. Contest chair Amy Kilpatrick (University of Alabama at Birmingham) said in a press release on the CMS Web site, "The caliber of entries this year was outstanding, making for tough decisions for our panel of judges. We certainly want to thank the judges who took on this difficult task and who volunteered their time to review these entries and make the final calls."
To view a slide show and gallery of winners visit: http://www.collegemedia.org/files/cma_img/multimedia/2009design17/index.html
Connect students with mentors
Training the next generation of visual communications professionals is a team effort, especially in the rapidly evolving media landscape where designers and graphics reporters are expected to work across multiple platforms and new devices that require design and visual content are popping up all the time. Likewise, although most viscom educators incorporate regular critiques, portfolio reviews and mentoring in student media and classes, it's increasingly important that students get feedback about their work and professional growth from as many different perspectives as possible. So, SND would like to add to the list of ways students can connect with professionals by offering a mentoring program with a formal list of requirements for mentors and mentees that will lead to a rich, inspiring and beneficial relationships.