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2001-2002 Technical Communication Award Competition Winners
Each year, the Washington, DC - Baltimore Chapter conducts the Austin T. Brown Technical Communication Award Competition for high school students in grades 10-12. This local competition supports excellence in technical communication at the high school level and encourages the next generation to consider technical writing as a career goal. The best papers win cash awards: $1000 for Distinguished, $500 for Excellence, $300 for Merit, and $50 for Honorable Mention. The papers are judged in terms of their objectivity, clarity, overall impact, and the extent to which the significance of the topic is shown.
The local competitions are held in the fall. The top winners are entered in the International Student Technical Writing Competition (ISTWC), which takes place in February. This competition provides a unique avenue for international recognition. Awards in the international competition are $1000 for Distinguished, $500 for Excellence, $300 for Merit, and a certificate for Honorable Mention.
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marks the winning entries in the International Competition.
Congratulations to all the student writers who won awards in the Washington, DC - Baltimore Chapter's Austin T. Brown Technical Communication Award Competition!
| Student | Grade | Subject | School | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distinguished | ||||
| Daniel Kim |
Investigating the Electrochemical Properties of Lithium/Carbon Monofluoride Batteries Subject Area: Chemistry |
Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD |
Ms. Jonetta M. Russell | |
| Excellence | ||||
| Elyssa Gelmann |
Net-spinning caddisflies as ecosystem engineers: The effects of Hydropsyche depravata on stream substrate stability during floods Subject Area: Stream Ecology |
Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD |
Ms. Jonetta M. Russell | |
| Merit | ||||
| Alexey Rostapshov |
Determining 3-D Structures of Macromolecular Complexes Using Electron Microscopy and Protein docking: development, Refinement, and Parallelization of the DCORR Method Subject Area: Structural Biology |
Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD |
Ms. Jonetta M. Russell | |
| Honorable Mention | ||||
| Matthew Carson |
Determining an Algorithm for Autonomous Robot Docking using Robot Mobility and Agent Collaboration Subject Area: Robotics |
Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD |
Ms. Jonetta M. Russell | |
| Ruben Galbraith |
Effects of Range, Cross Range, Image Shifting, Pixel Error, and Occlusion on Accuracy of Internal and Silhouette Automatic Target Recognition Algorithms Subject Area: Computer Science |
Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD |
Ms. Jonetta M. Russell | |
| Arielle Kuiper |
Living in the Clone Age Subject Area: Human Biology |
W. T. Woodson High School Fairfax, VA |
Mr. George Crump | |
For more information, contact Betty Montgomery, Education Committee Manager, at
301-622-4912 (home), 301-601-4694 (work), (Secretary: 301-601-0302), 301-601-0308 (fax) or by email at
