[Air-l] CPSR Essay Contest 2001-2002

[jeremy hunsinger]

Subject: CPSR Essay Contest 2001-2002


May 1st Deadline for Spring Submissions
http://www.cpsr.org/essays/2002/contest.html

Dear Fellow Educator,

First, thank you for your continued support of CPSR.
Teachers have a major role in the organization.
Our mission calls for education of the public and policy
makers.  You, as a teacher are especially positioned to
facilitate this learning process.

A tool is CPSR's essay contest, in which students write about
issues of interest to CPSR. Winning students will receive $100
prizes and have their work published on the CPSR website,
and the author of the best paper will receive $500 and be invited
to participate in CPSR's Annual Meeting 2002.

Given CPSR's interest in many areas of the role of technology
in society, there are several topics to choose from.
For first round 2001-2002 winning essays and contest
information see http://www.cpsr.org/essays/2002/index.html.

We hope you will encourage your students to participate
in this contest.

Students and faculty submitting papers can join or renew
their memberships in CPSR for one year for $15 and $25,
respectively. Or you could take advantage of the renewal
discount if you review essays in May.  Let me know if
you'd like to be a reviewer, and what subjects/areas you
want to read.

Contact contest at cpsr.org with any questions, comments,
and/or interest.

We look forward to your participation.

Best Regards,
Susan Evoy
Managing Director


CPSR E$$ay Contest


CPSR E$$ay Contest
October 2001 - June 2002

Students will be awarded prizes and have their work published!

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility is committed
to educating the public and our profession on the social
implications inherent in today's information technology.
The CPSR Essay Contest is intended to further that commitment,
by encouraging faculty members to integrate topics of social
responsibility of information technology into their coursework,
and encouraging students to consider the issues effecting their
lives.

CPSR is looking for papers that will advance its work within
its Working Groups and interests:

• Community Networks		
• Cyber-Rights	
• DNS/Internet Governance
• Computers in Education	
• Intellectual Property/Law/UCITA/UETA
• Broadband Technologies	
• Computers & the Environment	
• Ethics	
• Privacy	
• Women in Computing	
• Working in the Industry


CPSR Essay Contest Rules

Papers must be the original work of students enrolled at accredited
schools during the time that the paper is written, and not
previously published. Papers may be dual purpose in that
they satisfy a class requirement. A faculty member from the
student's school must be willing to certify that writers were
enrolled during the time that the paper was written, and that,
to the best of their knowledge, the work is original.

Faculty do not need to agree with the paper's conclusions.


Required Format

Papers should be less than 2,500 words in an easily
email-shared format among Macintosh and PC software
(i.e. text only, Word, or HTML). Papers may include
text and graphics.

The body of the paper must not identify the author, sponsor,
or school, so that judging is performed entirely anonymously.

Required Separate/Removable Cover Sheet Information:
Title, Author Name, Address, Phone Number, Email,
Author School Affiliation and Status (undergraduate or graduate),
Sponsor Name, Address, Phone Number, and Email.

The body and separate/removable cover sheet should be sent
to contest at cpsr.org with the name of the appropriate Working
Group/Topic/Title to review it as the Subject.


Judging

Judges will be members of the appropriate CPSR Working
Group or general membership. Judges cannot submit or
sponsor papers for the Essay Contest during the year.

Up to 36 papers will be selected as winners for publication
by CPSR, on its web pages and online newsletter.

For each topic, a Working Group may select a graduate
student and an undergraduate to be awarded a $100 prize.

Up to two writers shall be selected to present their paper at the
CPSR Annual Meeting 2002 , and receive $500, along with
budget travel expenses to attend.

These selections are the final judgment of CPSR.

A paper may be withdrawn from the contest by the author up
to the time that it is scheduled for publication. After that time,
it may not be withdrawn.

Deadlines for submissions are December 1, 2001 and
May 1, 2002.
Judgments will be made in February 2002 and July 2002.

This contest may be repeated after the 2002 summer recess.

CPSR can terminate the contest at any time, and can stop
accepting papers for any period of time.

CPSR is not responsible for saving papers, or following up/
responding to participants.

Entries not meeting contest requirements will not be considered.

Participating students and faculty can join or renew their
memberships in CPSR for one year for $15 and $25, respectively.

www.cpsr.org

--
Susan Evoy   *   Managing Director
http://www.cpsr.org/
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
P.O. Box 717  *  Palo Alto  *  CA *  94302
Phone: (650) 322-3778    *  Fax  (650) 322-4748
Email: evoy at cpsr.org
Join/Renew: http://cpsr.org/store/membership-form.html


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