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Big Chip 2010 awards: Little Chip Student Award

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Colleges and universities from across the North of England are invited to submit their best student digital work with the chance to win a prestigious Big Chip award for the institution.

Big Chip is the biggest digital awards event outside London. Now in its 12th year the event has built a reputation for displaying excellent work from the best and brightest technical and creative businesses in the North. It is run by Manchester Digital, a non-profit trade association representing new media and ICT businesses in the North West. The judging panel includes experts from different parts of the sector and is chaired by Michael Nutley, editor in chief of New Media Age. The Big Chip awards ceremony – a prestigious dinner event in Manchester – will take place on 10 June 2010.

Big Chip has traditionally been a North West event, but in 2008 the ‘Game of the North’ award was launched, with entries welcome from across the North of England. In 2010 a new student category has been created that is also open to entries from across the North.

The deadline is tight – entries need to be in by 5pm, 1 March 2010 – but the task is simple. Students – working together or alone – should produce a digital artefact (which could be a website for example or a section of animation, or an iPhone app) that promotes or shows off the educational institution where they are studying.

Any further or higher educational institution can submit one entry – either chosen from the work of a number of students as the best example, or produced by a team. The institution must be in the North of England – the North East, North West or Yorkshire and the Humber. The student or students who did the work should have been studying at the institution at some time between March 2009 and February 2010. Entry is free.

Entering Big Chip offers educational institutions an opportunity to showcase their best digital work. A shortlist will be drawn up by the judging panel and the institutions submitting shortlisted entries will be named in publicity surrounding the awards. The winning institution and students credited with the work will receive publicity in the Big Chip media partners, Insider Magazine and New Media Age.

The ‘brief’ and judging criteria for the Little Chip Student Award are as follows:

Entries must be a digital artefact - such as a website, mobile application or animation - that could be used to promote some aspect of the entrant educational institution. Submissions should demonstrate creativity in the design of the artefact or in the way it is used to promote the institution, or both.

One entry is allowed from each educational institution. This can be the work of a single student chosen from individual entries by different students, or it can be a collaborative work involving a number of students.

Entries should be submitted on line here

If you have any questions then you can contact Big Chip at info@bigchipawards.com