[UniMacTech] AUC offers WWDC Scholarships to Staff and Students

[Allan Ellis]

Hi Andrew,

Again re our recent phone chat (and after discussion with Ross and 
Luke here at SCU) we would like to take this years allocated 
scholarship as a MacWorld Scholarship. Given that we also picked up a 
MacWorld Scholarship in the draw we now have two to award this year. 
We will set up some local selection criteria and a sub-committee and 
start advertising for submissions with the idea of allocating one to 
an academic user/teacher type and one to technical/admin user type. 
Because we don't have a computer science school programmers are thin 
on the ground.

As part of their application we will ask people how they intend to 
disseminate their knowledge to the wider SCU and AUC community upon 
their return. Ross and I are organising monthly Mac user group 
meeting this year so that is one channel for reporting back.

I'd expect we will run this process in june/july so that we have a 
short list of successful applicants who can then do early planning 
subject to final confirmation of funding and dates.

Finally, I understand we could choose to spilt one of the $4.5K 
scholarships into two $3.5K scholarships (ie a 50% top up from AUC) 
if the applicants can get local school/departments to-up funds to 
cover all costs.

Regards,
Allan



>** AUC offers WWDC Scholarships to Staff and Students **
>
>The AUC today announced that it would be offering Scholarships to University
>staff and students to attend this years Apple World Wide Developers
>Conference (WWDC) being held in the USA in June 2008.
>
>In 2008 the AUC will subsidise a number of staff and students selected on a
>nationally competitive basis to attend WWDC. Each AUC Member University has
>also been allocated one Scholarship to be used either at WWDC in June 2008
>or MacWorld in January 2009.
>
>To be eligible to obtain a scholarship you should be a full time staff
>member or student of an Australian AUC Member University, have a background
>in programming (Mac, UNIX or Windows), QuickTime and digital media or work
>as an IT Manager with responsibility for Macintosh deployment on campus.
>
>Successful Scholarship recipients in 2008 receive a WWDC E-Ticket as well as
>a financial subsidy to assist in covering the cost of:
>
>*    Return economy airfares to San Francisco, USA from Australia.
>*    Twin-share Accommodation in San Francisco at the Courtyard Marriott
>      for up to 7 days.
>
>Staff interested in the Allocated Scholarship should contact their local
>AUCDF Co-ordinator to check on their local closing date. An application form
>is available on the AUC web site.
>
>Staff and Students interested in the Competitive Scholarships must apply by
>completing an application form available on the AUC web site. Applications
>close on4 April 2008.
>
>For more information about the WWDC 2008 Scholarships please visit the AUC
>web site at:
>
><http://www.auc.edu.au/WWDC+Scholarships>
>
>
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