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One lucky student picked up a $500 scholarship from this college for creating a holiday card chosen as an invitation to the president’s annual holiday luncheon.
The winner is fine arts sophomore Monica Monzon.
The gathering will be from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Dec. 4 in the Koehler Cultural Center and is open to all employees. Administrators traditionally act as servers.
There were a total of 22 entries that were judged by a team of administrators, including President Robert Zeigler.
If you missed that deadline, you still have a chance to enter the district’s holiday e-card contest and possibly score $500.
The district invites current students to design an animated e-card to be sent electronically to hundreds of leaders in business, community, colleges and universities and other partners and supporters of the college district.
The e-mailed holiday card must be original work and submitted by midnight Monday, Dec. 7.
Sally Espinoza, administrative secretary to the chancellor’s office, said they have all day Monday until it’s due that night.
Chancellor Bruce Leslie, board Chair Denver McClendon and trustees will judge the contest, and the winner will be notified by Dec. 10.
Adriana Contreras, deputy to the chancellor, said that students should “just be as creative as they can be” and to stick with a San Antonio holiday theme.
The e-card must also contain the names of all five colleges. Contreras said not to forget to add nice music.
Last year’s card was designed by Northwest Vista College student Bart Herrera and can be seen online here.
Other specifications: must be submitted as a SWF file, be a maximum of 45 seconds, no more than 560 kilobytes, and measure 640 x 480 pixels.
Email the finished product to district webmaster Mike Irizarry at mirizarry@alamo.edu with your full name, college, major, telephone number and the best way for the district to contact you.
Irizarry said entries can be an animated video made in Adobe After Effects or Photoshop just as long as it’s a SWF file. He said last year about eight entries were submitted.
Click here to see the winning entry and other submissions.
The winning individual or student team will receive a $500 check from the ACCD Foundation at the Dec. 15 board meeting. Five finalists will receive gift cards to the district’s bookstores; two valued at $100 and three at $50.
Contreras said they opted for a check rather than a scholarship because it will be around Christmas time, and students won’t have to wait for the money.
This is the third year of the contest and in a memo, Contreras said the purpose of the contest is to save money and promote the creativity and talent of the district’s students.
For technical questions, call Irizarry at 485-0041 or Contreras at 485-0020.
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