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Council for the Arts of Herndon, SAIC Hold Annual Technology and the Arts Competition
High school students in Fairfax and Arlington counties can participate in the competition.
The ninth annual SAIC Technology and the Arts Competition is coming and students in Fairfax and Arlington counties will be getting creative with their computer talents.
The program challenges students in all Fairfax and Arlington county high schools to create works of art using technology, whether its animation, digital art, digital music or digital photography.
“The changing technologies artists use to capture what they see in order to express and communicate — hammer and chisel, paint brush, printing press, film, digital image — have helped drive human progress,” said Douglas Koelemay, Vice President, Community Relations at SAIC in Tysons in a press release.
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“We’ve steadily grown our collaboration with the Council for the Arts to focus attention on the vision and skills of these young artists, but also to signal that technology companies need imagination, creative skills and visual representation of complex information going forward,” Koelemay said.
Students who take part in the competition submit entries at their schools. Teachers select which works will be entered in the contest, where they are judged by professionals and experts in the field.
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Awards in the competition include a top prize of $1,000 and monetary awards for those who place or receive honorable mention in each category.
Previous judges have included Studio Kinate President Charlotte Rinderknecht and Artistic and TEchnical Director Pam Darley; George Mason University department of art and visual technology Chair, Professor Harold Linton; Professional Photographer Scott Zetlan; Photographer Lee Love; and The Music Loft's Laura Readyoff.
The winners of the competition will be honored at a reception from 7-9 p.m. on May 20 at the SAIC Conference Center, located at 1710 SAIC Dr., in McLean. The public is invited to attend the ceremony and view the competition entries.
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