SEDS Announces Student Video Advertisement Contest

Sept. 23, 2010 - PRLog -- Students for the Exploration and Development of Space USA (SEDS-USA), a student-run educational non-profit that supports student chapters across the country and around the world, is partnering with the National Space Society (NSS) and the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) to launch a $200 video contest on Youtube. The purpose of this contest is for a student or group of students to create a brief advertisement describing the mission and benefits of SEDS to students who have not heard of our organization. Representatives of the Space Frontier Foundation, the National Space Society, and SEDS-USA alumnus Will Pomerantz of the X-Prize Foundation will judge the entries and select the top three prizewinning videos, which will also be shown at the SEDS SpaceVision 2010 conference in November.  All entries must be submitted by October 22, 2010 using the form on the contest website.

Prizes for first place include registration for the 2011 International Space Development Conference in Huntsville, Alabama, National Space Society membership for a year along with $200 cash. Two runner-up prizes will include $50 cash for each winner. For more details and the official contest rules, go to the SEDS website: http://seds.org/video-ad-contest/. SEDS wishes all participants the best of luck! Entries will be shown on the SEDS-USA Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/sedsusa .

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The Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is the world's only independent, fully student-run, pro-space non-profit organization. Founded in 1980 by students frustrated with the stagnation of NASA after Apollo, SEDS has inspired tens of thousands of students to pursue careers in science, engineering, and technology. SEDS supports a network of over 25 student chapters across the United States, hosts the largest student run space conference in the world, provides students opportunities to develop their leadership skills and professional networks, and inspires others through their involvement in space-related projects. Alumni can be found throughout the space industry in both traditional and "New Space" companies. For more information visit: http://www.seds.org