IEEE Region 8 Student Activities Committee (R8 SAC)

We know you are all putting a lot of time and efforts in making your branch activities to what they are. We really appreciate all your work and what's better to show this appreciation than to give you an award... So, why don't you nominate one of your branch members, yourself or your branch for an award to get recognition for your achievements With Deadline Day coming up, now it's time for action! Take this chance to give your efforts and your branch a worldwide recognition!

Make sure you don't miss Deadline Day!

To make things easier for you, we are grouping all deadlines of the upcoming awards and contests on 15 April or Deadline Day! This leaves you with only one date to remember!
To make things even easier, we are providing you with a short description of the upcoming awards and contests. So, mark your agenda and start preparing your submissions right away!

Upcoming awards and Contests:

• Exemplary Student Branch Award -- 15 April 2012
• Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award -- 15 April 2012
• Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award (Nomination form)  -- 15 April 2012
• Student Branch Website Contest -- 15 April 2012

Getting recognized for all your personal and your team’s efforts as IEEE volunteers is a great reward for all the energy and enthusiasm you put into your student branch day after day. We received many excellent submissions for this year’s region 8 awards. We have been quite busy evaluating them all and the decision in some categories was not easy at all. Congratulations to all the winners!

The results will also be published in the September issue of Region 8 News.

A new competition co-sponsored by IBM and IEEE provides teams of university students with an opportunity to bring some of the world's most compelling social and commercial challenges into the classroom.

The IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge: Student Projects Changing the World will debut in IEEE sections in Boston and the United Kingdom-Republic of Ireland during 2011, before being expanded worldwide next year. In the first-year pilot phase, up to three awards will be provided to each section to student teams that propose classroom projects derived from a menu of topics identified by the worldwide IBM Smarter Planet project that confront technology professionals, business leaders and policy-makers.

"Solutions for most Smarter Planet issues require technological expertise, an understanding of business and legal principles, and an appreciation for the social implications of innovation," says Wendy Murphy, Executive Program Manager, IBM Global University Programs. "By co-sponsoring this competition, we want to encourage students to work together in the kind of multi-disciplinary teams that have become a fixture in innovative organizations," she added.

Full details about application procedures and selection criteria are available at smarter planet challenge.

The IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society is replacing its traditional Predoctoral Fellowship with a new program called the Predoctoral Achievement Award. In the former program they provided money to the student’s Professor to be used for tuition support, but have found that this was generally not needed. In the new program they will provide a much smaller but still meaningful Honorarium to the student, and also cover the cost of the student’s attendance at ISSCC (travel, registration fee, and hotel, subject to certain limits).

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