Hi Sunny,
This sounds like a fantastic competition, thank you for the link. Science writing is something I'm very keen to move into, hopefully for my career in the future,
I am really enthusiastic to apply, but just had one question - will you be choosing winners based purely on this article, or also on how much science writing they do in general (i.e. whether or not they have their own blog?)
Best regards,
Rhiannon
Dr. Rhiannon Pursall
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From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of jenny koenig
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Tech writing competition for people under 30
Is there a reason why this is restricted to people under 30? What about someone who's had a career break or perhaps someone who wants to change career direction? People do change career later in life and there are some who take a science/tech degree in their 30's or 40's or even later.
They may value an opportunity like this. Aren't you really looking for people who aren't currently professional science writers?
Jenny
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From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr Sunny Bains
Sent: 24 June 2013 10:58
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Subject: [PSCI-COM] Tech writing competition for people under 30
We're holding a competition for people under 30 to reward insightful writing about science, technology and engineering, and we're trying to get the word out to students who might be starting interesting internships, work placements, research-opportunities programmes etc.
this summer. The idea is just to let them know the competition will run from now until the beginning of November, so they can keep an eye out for interesting things to write/blog about and maybe do some research over the next few months. Unless there's a serious problem with them (!) all the entries will be published on our news site shortly after submission. You can have a look at the full competition rules at:
http://the-briefing.com/competitions/the-briefing-tech-writing-challenge
and you're welcome to contact me if you have any questions. In any case I'll be back in touch in September with full details of the judges and so forth.
By the way, if you use social media such as we'd be really grateful if you could spread the word by posting about the competition there.
Very best, and many thanks,
Sunny
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