Competition

STC Houston holds an annual Online Communication, Technical Art, and Technical Publications competition. This competition is held in fall/winter of each year and the Distinguished Award winners are entered into the STC International competition.

Important Dates

Event/Activity Date and Time
Entry Submission Deadline Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Judging Orientation Meeting Contact Competitions coordinator.
Judging Consensus Meeting Contact Competitions coordinator.
Awards Banquet Contact Competitions coordinator.

Judging Information

Competition entries are judged by teams of experienced technical communicators. STC Houston judging teams are organized and coordinated by the judging manager for each of the three competitions.

To initiate the judging, each judge is expected to attend the Judging Orientation meeting, where volunteer judges receive instruction in how to judge and score entries appropriately and how to work together in a judging team. At this meeting, judges receive their personal packet of information including the three to five entries they are to judge, The Judges Orientation materials contains the packet of entries, the judging guidelines, a list of important competition dates, and whom to contact for questions.

After all entries have been judged, judges are expected to attend a Judging Consensus meeting where individual judging teams can finalize their work, decide if any of their entries merit nomination for best of show, and prepare to present their nomination. Once all the best of show nominations have been presented, judges in attendance participate in choosing the best of show recipient for each of the three competitions.

For more information about the competitions or judging, email our Competitions coordinator