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Digital Essay Competition 2021 winners and finalists list

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eKitabu Announces Results of the 8th Annual Digital Essay Competition

eKitabu, organizer of the Digital Essay Competition and leader in delivering accessible digital content for inclusive and quality education in Kenya, today announced winners of the 8 th annual Digital Essay Competition (DEC).

Considering the coronavirus pandemic that saw all schools closed and all children at home since March this year, students submitted essays and art online at essay.ekitabu.com to answer the 2020 question: “How is technology helping you, your family, and your community during the coronavirus pandemic?”   Submission categories were Kiswahili, English, French, Art, Braille, Kenyan Sign Language (KSL), and German for all students in upper primary and secondary levels in Kenyan education, including all students from mainstream and special needs schools, public and private, countrywide. Will Clurman, CEO of eKitabu, noted, “All means all.”

In KSL, Ruth Amondi of Maseno School for the Deaf in Kisumu and Neci Akoth of Nina School for the Deaf in Siaya emerged Grand Prize winner and 1 st runner-up respectively. 

In Kiswahili, John Mark Nyongai of Thika High School For the Blind in Kiambu; Ann Gakii of Munithu Secondary School in Meru; and Maryanne Anyango Odongo of Aluor Mixed Primary in Siaya came top as Grand Prize winners. 

In English, Sherlin Maggy Anyango of East Park Academy in Nairobi; Humphrey Nyongesa of Starehe Boys Centre and School in Nairobi; Saul Opiyo Otieno of St. Oda School for the Visually Impaired in Siaya; and Emmanuel Kirui of Thika High School for the Blind in Kiambu came top as Grand Prize winners. 

In Art, Munira Abdullahi of Samburu; Njuguna Jane Njeri of The Kenya High School in Nairobi; Ezekiel Boaz of Ebukuya School for the Hearing Impaired in Vihiga; and John Mark Nyongai of Thika High School for the Blind in Kiambuare the Art Grand Prize winners.

In French, Reinnis Akinyi Vester of St. Francis Rang’ala Girls High School in Siaya and Elvis Aduwa of Starehe Boys Centre and School in Nairobi emerged Grand Prize winners for French .

In German, Jude Wairiuko of Maranda High School in Kilifi and Bryton Omari of Njiri School in Murang’a emerged Grand Prize winners for German.

In English braille, John Owino of Kibos School for the Blind in Kisumu came top as Grand Prize winner.

Mr. Fred Haga, Ministry of Education Director of Special Needs Education, said: “I’m happy to be associated with the eKitabu Digital Essay Competition because it is a very important event and the Competition provides the opportunity for learners with Hearing and Visual Impairment to participate alongside other learners in this essay competition. I’ve been very pleased with the standards and quality of the Competition, and I’m confident that this year the standards may even surpass what they have been in past years.” Director Haga was also the Keynote Speaker at the award ceremony.

Digital Essay Competition is free and open to all public and private, primary and secondary, mainstream and special needs schools in Kenya. It was open from April to August 2020. The Competition seeks to advance education through utilization of technology with teachers, learners, parents, and caregivers. 

Marking is done by a panel of judges that comprises competent teachers with wide experience in marking language subjects for Kenya Primary and Secondary examinations; distinguished leaders from Kenya’s publishing industry; and leaders from public and private sector including Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development and University of Nairobi. The judges first determine the top 15 essays per category before selecting winners.

This year’s major sponsors were The Embassy of France in Kenya, Moran Publishers EA, and Pearson. To implement the Competition, eKitabu collaborates with partners including the Kenya Ministry of Education and MOE Directorate of Special Needs Education (DSNE), Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE), Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), Goethe-Institut Kenya, Kenya Institute for the Blind (KIB), Kenya Association of Teachers of French (KATF), Kenya Primary School Heads Association (KEPSHA), Kenya Private Schools Association (KPSA), Kenya Publishers Association (KPA), Kenya Secondary School Heads Association (KESSHA), Education Development Trust (EDT), and the University of Nairobi.

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Important Dates

EXTENDED Submission deadline: September 14, 2021 at 11:59 PM EST

Awardees announced: October 15, 2021

ISTAS21 Conference dates: October 28-31, 2021

Call for Papers: SSIT Student Essay Contest

The call for papers: student essay contest has officially closed.

Contest Overview Essay Topics Submission Guidelines About SSIT

NOTE: As of August 31, 2021, the submission deadline for the SSIT Student Essay Contest has been extended.  Thank you to all students who have already submitted essays! You are welcome to upload an updated file through EasyChair if you would like to make any changes to your submission between now and the extended contest closing date of September 14th.

Contest Overview

Are you an undergraduate student who has recently researched, written about, or is interested in the social implications of technology? Would you like to share your ideas with a broader audience and win cash prizes? Then the inaugural IEEE Society on Social Implications Technology (SSIT) Student Essay Contest is for you! 

With this contest, the SSIT is offering a chance for students to gain a larger audience for their ideas and work. The contest is a global initiative launched by the SSIT Student Activities Committees and run as a part of the Society’s flagship conference, the International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS21) . The conference will take place on 28-31 October and is focused on the overarching theme “Technological Stewardship and Responsible Innovation”. Conference programming will address the following sub-themes:

• Health Systems 
• Privacy & Security 
• Technology Policy & Governance
• Sustainable Cities & Communities
• Artificial Intelligence & Automation
• Ethical and Human Values in Emerging Technology 

In addition, the IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science and Technology ( ETHICS-2021 ) takes place as a track within the ISTAS21 program, focused on the theme of “ Engineering and Corporate Social Responsibility ” (see ETHICS-2021 CFP for sub-themes).

Please see below for additional details about the essay topics and submission guidelines. 

Essay Topics

The 2021 SSIT Student Essay Contest invites submissions on the following THREE topics.  One winner and one runner-up will be selected from submissions to EACH category.  You may write on ONE  topic: 

Topic 1: Public Health, Digital Surveillance, and Privacy

• A survey of perceptions on contact-tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic across 19 countries revealed that nearly three-quarters of respondents were willing to provide contact information. For individuals who were unwilling to share their personal information, the most common reason was fear of governments and technology companies tracking them. How have contact-tracing and other public health digital surveillance methods of the COVID-19 pandemic challenged notions of privacy? Furthermore, should contact-tracing be used, and if so, how can governments and health authorities promote public trust?  

Topic 2: (Mis)Information, Social Media, and Censorship

• False rumors spread “farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth” online, according to a 2018 study published in Science . The amount of “fake news” and misinformation is rising and peaks during key events, such as the U.S. presidential elections of 2016 and 2020, along with posts encouraging or inciting violence. In response, social media platforms have begun suspending accounts and removing content; however, many believe that Internet censorship violates freedom of speech. How can social media companies (such as TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit) counter misinformation on their algorithmic platforms while considering the implications of censorship in democratic societies? Correspondingly, how can social media companies be internally and/or externally regulated?

Topic 3: YOUR Take on “ Technological Stewardship and Responsible Innovation”

• Students are also invited to present their own interpretations of and ideas about the ISTAS21 conference theme, “Technological Stewardship and Responsible Innovation”. This open prompt challenges students to consider the meaning and significance of  “social responsibility” and/or “stewardship” during this era of unprecedented technological innovation. Why and how should we uphold ethics, sustainability, equity, and social values within the technology industry?   Submissions under this category may focus on one (or more) of the conference subthemes, as listed above, and can also draw from students’ own research projects to support their arguments.

Submission Guidelines

Scope, length, format:.

• Present and argue a clear and focused central idea, 
• Incorporate discussion of relevant research/contexts, and 
• Provide references using IEEE citation guidelines .
• Essays must be 1000-1500 words (excluding references). 
• Essays must be submitted through the EasyChair portal as PDFs, following the IEEE conference template .  
• Please note that although the EasyChair portal provides the option for multiple authors, the Student Essay Contest will only accept single-author submissions.

Eligibility Requirements

• Students from any discipline are invited to participate. 
• Be currently enrolled as an undergraduate student , or 
• Have completed your undergraduate studies no earlier than January 2021 .
• Each student may submit only one essay to the contest.

Awards and Adjudication

• Awardees will be announced on October 15, 2021. 
• The winning entry will receive a prize of $120 (USD).
• The runner-up will receive a prize of $80 (USD). 
• Publication of their essays on the SSIT, ISTAS21, and ETHICS-2021 websites;
• Free registration to the ISTAS21 conference;
• One-year student membership to the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology for 2022. 
• Winners may be invited to expand their submission for publication in a special-issue of the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine .

Adjudication

• Essays will be judged by an interdisciplinary committee of graduate students led by faculty members.
• Clarity , focus , and insight of argument (including relevance to the essay prompt),
• Use of existing research  to support the argument presented.

About the IEEE Society on Social Implications Technology (SSIT)

The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) focuses on issues concerning Technology and Society. Through publications (such as the award-winning IEEE Technology and Society Magazine ), conferences, social media groups, blogs, websites and local events, SSIT fosters dialogue on how we can address the challenges and opportunities presented by our world’s technologies.

If you want to know more about the contest or have any quick questions, please traverse through the information video here.

Please email vivian.qiang@mail.mcgill.ca if you have any further questions or concerns about the student essay contest.

By submitting your essay, you give the Berkeley Prize the nonexclusive, perpetual right to reproduce the essay or any part of the essay, in any and all media at the Berkeley Prize’s discretion.  A “nonexclusive” right means you are not restricted from publishing your paper elsewhere if you use the following attribution that must appear in that new placement: “First submitted to and/or published by the international Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence ( www.BerkeleyPrize.org ) in competition year 20(--) (and if applicable) and winner of that year’s (First, Second, Third…) Essay prize.” Finally, you warrant the essay does not violate any intellectual property rights of others and indemnify the BERKELEY PRIZE against any costs, loss, or expense arising out of a violation of this warranty.

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WINNERS OF THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH ESSAY COMPETITION 2021

In 2021 we were thrilled to announce that a record-breaking 25,648 children entered The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2021 from every Commonwealth region. The 2021 winners and runners-up are:

Senior Winner: Kayla Bosire aged 16 from Nairobi, Kenya

Kayla Bosire is an 11th grade student at Maxwell Adventist Academy in Kenya, and she loves writing, a passion she has pursued for a good portion of her 16 years of life. Her love for words was developed while she was a student at Cavina School a prep school in Nairobi Kenya, where she developed a love for creative writing, Shakespeare and theatre. Kayla’s love for the arts is nurtured at her current high school; where she plays three instruments (piano, violin and flute) and enjoys performing in her schools’ orchestra and as a member of the Wind Ensemble.

She holds positions of leadership and responsibility as a tutors assistant math grader, Class Secretary and as a member of the school magazine team (The Maxwell Mirror). Her dream is to pursue a career that allows her to advance justice and fairness in the world for both humans and animals. She is yet to decide whether she is a cat or dog person. Kayla chose to write about it being 30 years since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and what the world looks like….through the eyes of the COVID-19 virus.

Senior Runner-Up:

Aditi Nair Aged 15 from New Delhi, India

Aditi S Nair is an 11th grade student of Sanskriti School in New Delhi. She has always had a passion for writing, and ever since she was young, has enjoyed writing stories and poems. 

Apart from writing, her hobbies include reading, dancing and gardening. A few of her favourite authors are Khaled Hosseini, Celeste Ng, Ruskin Bond and Madeline Miller.   

Junior Winner: Ethan Charles Mufuma  Aged 13 from Mukono, Uganda

Ethan is 13 years old and is the third borne in a family of four children. He is proud to say that he is 'still the only boy child in this family'. His father is Mr. Wilson Mufuma and his mother is Mrs. Sarah Beatrice Wamakoto. His ancestral village is Bumayoka found in Bududa District in Eastern Uganda.  

He started his early education (nursery) at three years at Joy Nursery and Primary School, located near Makerere University. In 2014 when he was six years old, he joined Namilyango Junior Boys School for his primary education. He was there for the entire primary education until 2020 when he did his Primary Leaving Exams (P. L. E) and scored aggregate (5). 

Ethan started creative writing at the age of ten through the school writing club. Here all learners compete to publish in the school publications. (a termly newspaper and an annual magazine. Ethan mainly writes poetry where as he feel it's easier to have both the message and art flow better. His teacher tells them to choose what one feels free with (prose or poetry). 

Ethan first participated in The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Writing Competition in 2020. He was greatly inspired by one writing club member (Michael Victor Mugerwa) who had won a Silver Award in 2019. This was the first Award for their school and he really felt proud. 

In 2021, Ethan is the the happiest to add this record (winner) of the Junior category to his biography.

Junior Runner-Up: Raisa Gulati Aged 14 from Amritsar, India

Raisa is an all rounder, performing well both academically and in her co-curricular activities. She is very passionate about sports. From a very young age she has played at the National level for chess and equestrian. In 2019 she was declared Junior State Champion of Lawn Tennis in Rajasthan and she was also awarded with the award for being the most promising Equestrian rider in her school. However, the pandemic brought a halt to all her outdoor activities.

She is also adept in playing tabla and drums. During her free time she likes to sketch and she is also a recipient of the Piccaso award for her sketch besides winning various drawing competitions.

Life for her is full of things to learn and she enjoys navigating the uncharted terrain.

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Canon U.S.A. Sponsored and Participated In the Virtual 16th Annual Japan Center Essay Competition Awards Program

Organized by japan center at stony brook university, the essay competition awarded five students who showcased different aspects of the japanese culture connected to their personal experiences.

MELVILLE, NY , April 26, 2021 – As part of its continued commitment to empowering young leaders and education, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, proudly sponsored and participated in the virtual 16 th Annual Japan Center Essay Competition Awards Program on April 24, 2021. The goal of the competition is to provide young American students with the opportunity to think creatively and critically about their lives by relating to some aspect of Japan and Japanese culture in an effort to help broaden their horizons and encourage global citizenship. Embodying that goal, five students were recognized for their eloquent essays with prizes including Canon products.

Canon U.S.A., Inc. and the Japan Center at Stony Brook University have a longstanding collaboration that was launched in 2005 by the late Kinya Uchida, the Canon U.S.A. President and Chief Executive Officer at the time. The Essay Competition, now in its 16 th year, is an example of this collaboration. Tatsuro “Tony” Kano, executive vice president and general manager of the Imaging Technologies & Communications Group at Canon U.S.A., Inc., spoke at the virtual awards ceremony and congratulated the winners.

“The collaboration with the Japan Center at Stony Brook University is a direct reflection of Canon’s corporate philosophy of Kyosei, which means ‘all people, regardless of race, religion or culture, harmoniously living and working together into the future,” Mr. Kano said. “Supporting youth, education and our neighboring communities has always been a staple within our corporate social responsibility initiatives. I’m especially proud of the work of the Japan Center as well as all the students who wrote such passionate essays showcasing their understanding of Japanese culture as it relates to their personal lives.”

Among the 142 essays submitted by students from high school to college undergraduates in the New York metropolitan area, five winners were selected by a committee of judges and received awards including a Canon camera. In addition, the First Prize winner received a Webcam Accessory Kit & Hand Grip Tripod. Each essay focused on one or more aspects of Japan including art, culture, tradition, history and society, which connected to their personal experiences, views, and future goals. The winners are:

High School Division Best Essay Award:

• “Kaka Murad: A Tale of Ikigai” by Faiqa Ali (Hicksville High School)
• “A Kintsugi Life” by Jessie Roth (Professional Performing Arts High School)
• “The Way of Hanabi” by Yucheng Yang (Syosset High School)

College Division Best Essay Award

• “Space” by Lucy Yin (Stony Brook University)

Uchida Memorial Award

• “The Hidden Secret of the Sky-blue Chawan” by Wenting Li (Binghamton University)

“We are very proud to have a great and established collaboration with Canon U.S.A. as they have been supporting us to promote education and research in the study of Japanese culture,” said Dr. Iwao Ojima, the President and Chair of the Board of the Japan Center at Stony Brook University. “The essay competition connects back to the purpose of the Japan Center at Stony Brook University, which is to create a bridge between the university and the local community to promote education, research and cultural activities related to Japan and we are so honored to have Canon U.S.A., Inc. sponsor this competition again this year. We also congratulate the winners of this year’s essay competition for their amazing work.”

The first Japan Center Essay Competition, organized by Stony Brook University in New York and supported by Canon U.S.A., was held during the 2005-2006 school year. Since its inaugural year, there have been 3,218 submissions from 251 schools.

Each of the winning essays can be found on the  Japan Center’s website .

About Japan Center at Stony Brook University

The Japan Center at Stony Brook University was established in January 2003. It is operated by university faculty members, alumni and influential members of the local community. The Center organizes symposiums, lectures, workshops, performances, film festivals, educational events, and outreach programs. The aim of the Japan Center Essay Competition is to promote awareness and understanding of Japan in the United States and to help young Americans broaden their international horizons.

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DartWrite Digital Portfolio Project

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Digital Essay Project (Assignment Example)

Tina Van Kley has asked her Writing 5 students to re-mediate a research essay as what she calls (borrowing from Dan Cohen) a "digital essay." Students radically reshape and rewrite their projects for a public, online audience. They work toward the early drafts by exploring public writing on the web, noticing how the conventions of academic writing are both harnessed and changed in public online writing.  Students draft and complete the project as a single page on their portfolio sites. You can see an example of student work from winter 2019: https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/rayhcrist22/digital-essay/

Tina has shared a copy of the assignment text as it appeared in a recent class:

Project 3: Digital Essay

Your final project is to adapt your topic and research for Project 2 for a new, broad audience and digital medium, using your Dartmouth WordPress site.

Historian and New Media scholar Dan Cohen defines the digital essay (or – more controversially – “blessay”) as “a manifestation of the convergence of journalism and scholarship in mid-length forms online.” He cites the kind of thoughtful, informed writing found at places like The Atlantic’s website (Links to an external site.), Longform.org (Links to an external site.), and The New Yorker (Links to an external site.), or hear on NPR shows and podcasts like the investigative pieces on This American Life (Links to an external site.). We will read and listen to examples of such work to discuss the genre and its features. Some characteristics of the digital essay, as developed by Cohen (Links to an external site.):

• Mid-length: more ambitious than a blog post, less comprehensive than an academic article. Written to the length that is necessary, but no more. If we need to put a number on it, generally 1,000-3,000 words.
• Informed by academic knowledge and analysis, but doesn’t rub your nose in it.
• Uses the apparatus of the web more than the apparatus of the academic journal, e.g., links rather than footnotes. Where helpful, uses supplementary evidence from images, audio, and video—elements that are often missing or flattened in print.
• Expresses expertise but also curiosity. Conclusive, but also suggestive.
• Written for both specialists and an intelligent general audience. Avoids academic jargon—not to be populist, but rather out of a feeling that avoiding jargon is part of writing well.

Additional characteristics:

• The writer is often "present" in the piece, via use of first-person pronouns and/or anecdotes.
• Digital essays look different from traditional academic essays. Rather than titles, they have headlines and sub-headlines that give the motive and/or thesis. Paragraphs are often much shorter, and spacing is used strategically for online consumption, which prioritizes speed, efficiency, and high degree of skim-ability.

As with Projects 1 and 2, Project 3 is argumentative, but the approach taken should be exploratory and questioning, as implied by Cohen’s phrase “conclusive but also suggestive.” The imagined audience is anyone who might find your site in a search related to your topic, i.e., general but willing to read something that would take 45 minutes to an hour to read.

Basic Requirements:

• Use WordPress site
• 1,000-3,000 words in length
• Includes both visual and/or aural content that is integrated with the writing
• Includes at least 2 primary and at least 3 secondary sources (at least 2 of which should be scholarly)
•  Is the essay clearly addressed to a broad audience?
• Does the essay make appropriate use of the digital medium (e.g., includes a/v content, hyperlinks, etc.), or does it look like a typical academic essay copied and pasted onto a web page?
• Are digital elements (such as video, audio, images, etc.) incorporated effectively into the writing, and captioned, cited, or linked to appropriately?
• Does the essay identify the most appropriate source materials and methods for researching the topic?
• Is the essay’s thesis persuasive? Is it supported with convincing evidence and analysis?
• Is the essay organized, and does it include sufficient background for audiences unfamiliar with the topic?

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction 2024 Competition

Dates for submission: Manuscripts may be submitted between 9:00 a.m. EST on April 1 and 11:59 p.m. EST on May 31. Winners will be announced by the end of August. Contest queries can be directed to [email protected]. The press will not accept phone calls regarding the Flannery O'Connor Award. If you encounter any technical difficulties while using the submissions manager, don't hesitate to contact our submission manager support: [email protected]. The $30 entry fee can be paid online via credit card or PayPal. Selection process: Each of four contest judges reads approximately one-fourth of the manuscripts submitted to the competition, with a fifth judge available if needed based on the total number of submissions. Judges select seven to ten finalists each; the pool of finalist manuscripts is read by series editor Lori Ostlund , who makes the final selection of one winning manuscript. The author of the winning manuscript receives a cash award of $1,000, and the collection is subsequently published by the University of Georgia Press under a standard book contract. The winner has ten days to accept the award and ten days to sign the contract once it is received. More information about the series editor and this year's judges can be found at http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/FOC Eligibility: The competition is open to writers in English, whether published or unpublished. Previous winners of this award are not eligible to win again. Writers must be residents of North America. Manuscript Guidelines

• Manuscripts should be double-spaced and 40,000-75,000 words in length.
• The award recognizes outstanding collections of short fiction. Collections may include long stories or novellas (est. length of a novella is 50-150 pages). However, novels or single novellas will not be considered.
• Please be sure manuscript pages are numbered.
• Please include a table of contents.
• Please use a standard, easy-to-read font such as Times New Roman in twelve-point size.
• Stories included in the submission may have appeared previously in magazines or anthologies but may not have been previously published in a book-length collection of the author’s own work.
• Authors may submit more than one manuscript to the competition for consideration as long as no material is duplicated between submissions. Each submission will require a separate entry fee.
• Manuscripts under consideration for this competition may be submitted elsewhere at the same time. Please withdraw your manuscript if it is accepted by another publisher and should no longer be considered for the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award competition. Withdrawal can be completed via the submissions manager website. Entry fees are not refundable.

Blind review: The intent of this contest is that manuscripts will be considered on the merits of the fiction and that judges will not be aware of the names or publication records of the authors.

• Please do not include your name on the pages of the manuscript—only in the form boxes of the electronic submission manager. The first page of the manuscript should include the title of the collection only.
• Please do not include a list of acknowledgments crediting where stories have been published.
• Judges who recognize work will recuse themselves, and the submission will be reassigned to a different judge.

Confirmation of receipt and notification: You should receive an e-mail confirmation immediately after submission. An announcement of winners and finalists will be sent to all entrants via e-mail by the end of August. Statement of Integrity: The University of Georgia is thoroughly committed to academic integrity in all of its endeavors, and the University of Georgia Press adheres to all University of Georgia policies and procedures. To help ensure the integrity of the competition, manuscripts are judged through a blind review process. Judges in the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction competition are instructed to avoid conflicts of interest of all kinds.