The ABF Board is proud to announce an Article Writing Competition for the Student Ambassadors starting December 15, 2021, to April 15, 2022
The Student Ambassador duties and responsibilities will include the following activities:
- Write articles on current Cybersecurity related news stories or topics.
- Submit a total of 4 articles each over a four-month period.
- Follow ABF updates on ABF social media accounts. Write posts promoting the ABF through their social media accounts sharing their personal experience regarding the Aaron Barnett Memorial Scholarship, gifts, Chromebooks, and laptops, and refer to the ABF website by creating a link.
- Contact and communicate with 12 graders currently attending their high schools by distributing digital postcards and the ABF brochures via social media to encourage them to apply for the next ABF Scholarship program in 2022.
- Write testimonials on their social media accounts and on the ABF website.
- Create their profile on the ABF website briefly describing their study, career choices, and future goals.
- Create testimonials from their parents’ perspectives regarding the mission of ABF and how it has benefitted their students.
- Create testimonials from their ICT instructors’ perspectives regarding the mission of ABF and how it has benefitted their students.
There will be a panel to review all articles.
The panel will grade all articles based on the elements listed below. The authors with the top four scores for their article submissions will be awarded prizes. In the event of a tie score, the ABF Board will make a determination based on each student’s overall participation in the Student Ambassador program. All articles become the property of the Aaron Barnett Foundation and may be used as blog posts on the ABF website and in other publications with credit to the authors.
The grading system will be based on the following -
- Article length - minimum 500 words
- Writing style focusing the main message of the article - 5 points
- Creativity - 4 points (any graphics, diagram)
- Applicability (Cybersecurity) - 4 points
- Sentence construction - 5 points
- Grammatical errors and typos - 4 points
- Conclusion - 3 points (Supporting your document)
Each article contains 25 points to grade. The total score for all four submissions by each author will be used to determine the highest point winner.
All submissions must be original products by their respective authors. Cited references are certainly okay, but the author must take care to avoid plagiarizing other work. Plagiarized work will be returned, and the author will be disqualified from participation in the awards competition.
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The quality of the article is often enhanced through the inclusion of relevant information from original sources. Please use standard citation methods to credit these sources, whether they are data, numbers, tables, diagrams, pictures, video links, descriptions, quoted text, etc.
Four article topics or prompts will be provided by the ABF Board each month
Article Award*:
1st prize: $200.00
2nd prize: $150.00
3rd prize: $100.00
4th prize: $50.00
*Awards may be made via check from the Aaron Barnett Foundation or gift card.
Article Management Coordinator; Steve Thornton.
Article Review Panel: TBD.
Technical Coordination: Sabina Islam
Budget Allocation: Tim Kelly
The ABF board members will choose four topics for the articles.