Scholarship Judges

Looking for Scholarship Judges
By Jeanette Evans

If anyone is interested in volunteering to be a scholarship judge, we will soon be recruiting, looking for judges who have at least three years in the field and not affiliated with any learning institution or programs.

As to other academic relations committee news, we were fortunate to have recruited a new volunteer, Sarah Burke, to co-chair the academic relationship committee. Throughout the summer Sarah and I worked on the scholarship application and related materials. We also began developing an academic program contacts database.

In the upcoming year, we hope reach out to area technical communication-related programs to introduce them to STC and our chapter. Learning more about the CSU certificate programs in science writing and technical writing and Kent State’s information architecture and knowledge management program is another goal. This is in addition to working with other area programs.

If you have ideas on how to encourage students to apply for the scholarship and/or enhance our academic relations work, please let us know.

During our last board meeting, several people mentioned they are interested in going to an area high school to make a presentation about technical communication as a possible career interest. If anyone has done this and would like to share experiences, please let me know. If you are interested in doing this, we would like to share your experiences and look forward to hearing from you.