Applications for the Idea Competition are due tonight at 5PM!

Museum Summary:

The mission of Port Discovery Children’s Museum, one of the nation’s top 5 children’s museums, is to connect purposeful play and learning. Our goal is to make a positive impact on the lives of children and their families by providing innovative public exhibits and activities, offering programs that respond to community needs and serving as an alternative educational resource for schools, teachers, and families. Port Discovery is a safe, invigorating, and nurturing place where children and families learn together through play.

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UMBC wants to give you $750 for telling us your idea! How can you win cash for your innovative solution?

The UMBC Idea competition is designed to challenge you to think about problems and opportunities facing society. If UMBC is one of the most innovative schools in the nation, then UMBC students are just the kind of innovators that can really change the world. Now’s your chance to make it happen.

Submit your idea online via the entry form. And you can also grab your camera or smartphone and post a YouTube video in which you pitch your idea. The top entries will be judged, live, by a panel of professionals and alumni along with a crowd of students at the final competition held November 12, 2015, in the Sports Zone in The Commons. The top 3 winners, determined by the results of student and panel voting, will receive cash prizes up to $750.

How to Enter
To enter the competition, complete the UMBC Idea Competition Entry Form, which asks you to (i) describe a problem or opportunity, and (ii) describe your idea for addressing it. Submission forms will be limited to one page, so you will need to articulate the problem you have identified and your idea succinctly. You will also be allowed to post a video to YouTube in which you can personally pitch your idea to the campus. The videos are not required, but they are encouraged as an effective way to communicate ideas to the review committee. YouTube videos are limited to 60 seconds and creativity is encouraged. Videos longer than 60 seconds will not be considered by the judges.

For a full list of the rules, visit http://entrepreneurship.umbc.edu/competitions/umbcs-idea-competition/

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE TOMORROW, 

OCTOBER 8, 2015 AT 5:00PM!

This is the sixth year of celebrating American Archives Month at UMBC! This year we're looking deep into our institution’s shared history with the physical space that we occupy today. On display in the Library Rotunda are photographs, artifacts, and clippings from the Stabler family papers (Collection 27), which were donated by the descendants of Edmund Stabler, a long-serving superintendent of the Baltimore Manual Labor School. An online exhibit about the School will also be available this month. Both of the exhibits were curated by recent UMBC graduate Nichole Zang, with assistance from Special Collections graduate student assistant Tucker Foltz and Archivist Lindsey Loeper. Nichole’s History M.A. thesis informed the work on display; a copy of her thesis, “Holy Temples to Dark Rooms: The Origins of Baltimore’s Juvenile Reform Movement of the Nineteenth Century,” is also available in Special Collections.

American Archives Month is a collaborative effort by professional organizations and repositories around the nation to highlight the importance of records of enduring value. Archivists are professionals who assess, collect, organize, preserve, maintain control of, and provide access to information that has lasting value, and they help people find and understand the information they need in those records. - Society of American Archivists, www.archivist.org

Concepts By Cash, Arts Management Division is seeking several experienced art teachers to work with elementary school age students in after schools programs in Baltimore City. Teachers should have experience doing both 2 and 3 dimensional artwork with this age group and have great classroom management skills. Classes are held two - four days a week depending on location and begin late October 2015.

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 12th, 2015

If interested, please send a cover letter and resume to Ms. Hester, ch@conceptsbycash.com