TRIO Quest Activities

 

Student PhotoEssay - August 10, 2009 Deadline

Media Quest - August 12, 2009 Deadline

ThinkQuest TRIO - August 7, 2009 Deadline

TRIO Quest Activities promote the use of today's technology by TRIO staff and students. These activities are available only to TRIO staff and students.

 

Why Have Your Students Participate?

• Teaches research and/or writing skills
• Teaches educational uses of the Web
• Emphasizes intellectual honesty and proper citation skills
• Students can be published online
• Being published online provides excellent reference for admission and scholarship applications.

TRIO Quest Awards for the Summer 2009 Competitions

New Prizes! TRIO Quest received an exciting new contribution for these new prizes. Prizes will be awarded in October 2009. Note: The award is for each student in the event the activity involves a team of students (maximum students per team is 6).

Best of Contest Awards:
Media Quest: Video (flip) Camera plus $100 Farrow Award per student
PhotoEssay: Digital Camera valued at approx $200 value plus $100 Farrow Award
ThinkQuest TRIO: Laptop Computer plus $100 Farrow Award per student

Gold Medal Winners: Digital Camera approx $150 value
Silver Medal Winners: Digital Camera approx $100 value
Bronze Medal Winners: Multi GB Flashdrive

Medals and Certificates
All Semifinalists and Finalists receive medals and certificates. All others receive certificates.

Notification and Verification of Winners: Program contacts and directors of winning entries will be notified via email. In order to receive an award, the program director must provide an address for mailing the prize(s) to the student(s) and must assure in writing that to the best of the director's knowledge, the student or students named in the award completed all the work on the entry.

Contributions to the Dr. Earl V. Farrow Award help support student awards for TRIO Quest.

If you have any comments or suggestions about these activities, please email us at tquest@u.washington.edu.