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Attention IEEE Students!! Nominations for Student Activities Awards are now open! Be sure to nominate your Student Branch for a project, your Counselor for recognition, and a very special student volunteer for any of these awards! Below you will find basic and useful information about the awards. Please read it carefully, prepare required documentation and start the nominations. Show us and prove it that R8 Student Branches are the most active in IEEE !
Please note, that nominations will be accepted until 1 February 2014!! 

STEP 1: IEEE Student Enterprise Award

For whom?
Dedicated to Student Members who are looking to implement an idea for a project. Each Student Branch may submit only one proposal a year.

Who can nominate ?
IEEE Student members of the Student Branch.

What you can win ?
Up to US $1500

More information:  http://bit.ly/1kOOr6p

STEP 2: Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award

For whom?
Dedicated to Student Member who is most responsible for an extraordinary accomplishment associated with Student Activities (the award is designed to reward a particular event, program, or product of IEEE Student Activities).

Who can nominate you?
Student Branch Counselor, Section Chair, Section SAC, other IEEE volunteers. Remember, you can’t nominate yourself so please ask mentioned people to do it.

What you can win ?
Prestige ! Customized award plaque, a digital certificate, and three years of complimentary membership in IEEE.

More information: http://bit.ly/18LEJfJ

STEP 3: IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award

For whom?
Dedicated to exemplary Student Branch which conform to IEEE Bylaws, have an active program and support IEEE goals.

Who can nominate?
Officer of the Student Branch

What you can win ?
A customized certificate attesting to the exemplary operation of the Student Branch

More information: http://bit.ly/IZHZgw

Step 4: IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Branch Chapter Advisor Award

For whom?
Dedicated to individuals around the world who, through their work as Counselors and Advisors, exemplify the Institute’s commitment to the educational, personal, professional, and technical development of students in IEEE related fields of interest

Who can nominate?
Student Branch (Chapter) Chair assisted by SB members

What Counselor (Advisor) and Branch (Chapter) can win ?
Counselor: US $150 cash award and personalized certificate
Student Branch: US $150 cash award

More information: http://bit.ly/1bTxUx0

STEP 5: The Darrel Chong Student Activity Award

For whom?
Dedicated to Student Branches, Student Branch Chapters, Student Branch Affinity Groups of Women in Engineering (WIE) which have organized exemplary activity

Who can nominate?
Interested student groups who organized the activity

What you can win ?
The student branch will be presented with a digital certificate. Platinum winners will receive a plaque. Hard copy of the certificate will be provided upon request.

More information: http://bit.ly/1dhzR4m

If you have any questions please feel free to contact Piotr Graca, R8 Awards & Contest Coordinator: [email protected].

During the SBC 2010 we had the opportunity to give out this year’s student awards, recognizing the efforts of some outstanding individuals and student branches. Here is a summary of the results. Congratulations to all winners!

2010 Larry K. Wilson Region 8 Student Activities Award

•     C. Serkan Baydin

2010 Region 8 Website Contest

•     1st. Cairo University
•     2nd. Alexandria University
•     3rd. Instituto Superior Tecnico

IEEE Darrel Chong Student Activity Award

•     Princess Sumaya University for Technology (Bronze)

2010 IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award

•     AUB
•     ENIS
•     PSUT
•     METU
•     Yildiz Technical University
•     Gent
•     QMUL
•     Alexandria University
•     Cairo University

2010 Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award

•     Joos Vanderwalle, SB Leuven

50 Years Student Branch Banner

•     SB Leuven

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.
IEEE MGA Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award

The award goes to Sinan Sabih from the TAMU-Q Student Branch, Qatar for organizing the ME SBC 2011.
IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award

The 2011 award winners within Region 8 are:

•     Princess Sumaya University Student Branch (Jordan)
•     Bilkent University (Turkey)
•     IRE-Kharkiv Student Branch (Ukraine)
•     IEEE AlexSB (Egypt)
•     IEEE METU SB (Turkey)
•     IEEE Cairo University Student Branch (Egypt)
•     IEEE SB Leuven (Benelux)
•     Southampton University SB(UKRI)
•     University of Malta SB (Malta)
•     IEEE UCG Student Branch (Greece)
•     ITU IEEE (Turkey)
•     YTU IEEE SB (Turkey)

The branch entering the 2011 global competition is IEEE SB Leuven (Benelux).
Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Recognition Programme

Two Region 8 nominees entered the global competition:

•     Ms. Tracey Cassar, University of Malta Student Branch, Malta section.
•     Dr. Mona Ghassemain, IEEE Greenwich Student Branch, UKRI section.

No results on the winners have been published yet.
IEEE Student Branch Web Site Contest

Winners:

•     1st: Pretoria Student Branch (South-Africa)
•     2nd: Alexandria University IEEE Student Branch (Egypt)
•     3rd: IEEE Greenwich Student Branch (UKRI)

Other finalists:

•     ENIS IEEE Student Branch (Tunisia)
•     University of Ibadan IEEE Student Branch (Nigeria)
•     KTH Student Branch (Sweden)

The three winning websites will also take place in the global contest. Results are yet to be announced.