AIST Foundation Announces Student Video Contest Winners
04/18/2016 - Students from five high schools and universities have been named winners of the AIST Foundation’s annual marketing video contest.
The Real Steel contest asks participants to create a three-minute video promoting steel industry careers and highlighting the industry’s safety awareness, technological advancements, and environmental- and energy-conservation efforts.
"The goal of this year's contest was to challenge students to research the steel industry and produce a video to spotlight how the steel industry has changed over the last 70 years in terms of environmental consciousness and responsibility," said Staci Beiswanger, employee development manager for Steel Dynamics Inc. and chairwoman of the foundation’s video contest committee.
The contest’s US$3,000 grand prize was awarded to Harkirat Singh and Vaibhav Gosain, students at the Indian Institute of Technology–Roorkee, for their entry, “Steel is Green.”
Also, four teams each won a US$1,000 prize. They are (with links to videos included):
Christopher Thomsen and Ethan Brown, of Canada’s McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario; Emily Bautista, of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va., USA; Carly Moran, Devin Diggs and Jada Rezac, of St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Overland Park, Kan., USA; and Ramanjeet Singh and Harsh Tiwari, of the Indian Institute of Technology–Roorkee.
In addition, there were two US$500 prizes. They were awarded to Joshua Pelz, of the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colo., USA, and Erik Quiroga and Joshua Morgan, of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
The winners were selected through two rounds of the voting, the first of which was conducted online. Winners of the first round advanced to a second, private round of voting carried out by the foundation’s video contest committee.
"The committee continues to be impressed with the effort and creativity put into each video. It is obvious students spend a good deal of time researching the steel industry," Beiswanger said.
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The contest’s US$3,000 grand prize was awarded to Harkirat Singh and Vaibhav Gosain, students at the Indian Institute of Technology–Roorkee, for their entry, “Steel is Green.”
Also, four teams each won a US$1,000 prize. They are (with links to videos included):
Christopher Thomsen and Ethan Brown, of Canada’s McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario; Emily Bautista, of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va., USA; Carly Moran, Devin Diggs and Jada Rezac, of St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Overland Park, Kan., USA; and Ramanjeet Singh and Harsh Tiwari, of the Indian Institute of Technology–Roorkee.
In addition, there were two US$500 prizes. They were awarded to Joshua Pelz, of the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colo., USA, and Erik Quiroga and Joshua Morgan, of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
The winners were selected through two rounds of the voting, the first of which was conducted online. Winners of the first round advanced to a second, private round of voting carried out by the foundation’s video contest committee.
"The committee continues to be impressed with the effort and creativity put into each video. It is obvious students spend a good deal of time researching the steel industry," Beiswanger said.
