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Osprey Village Names Winners of Essay Contest
Osprey Village Names Winners of Essay Contest
Amelia Island, Fla. (PRWEB) September 06, 2013
Osprey Village, a luxury retirement community located in Amelia Island, Fla., gave away $ 3,750 in cash prizes to four winners of the community’s Silver Pen Essay Contest.
The 2013 Winners were:
Savannah Shelton, first place
Shelton graduated from Yulee High School and will be attending the University of Florida in the fall to pursue a chemical engineering.
Michael Lynch, second place
Lynch graduated from Hilliard Middle-High School and will attend University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in the fall in hopes of majoring in chemical engineering.
Tori Peters, third place
Peters graduated from Fernandina Beach High School and will attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the fall.
Avery Douglas, fourth place
Douglas graduated from Fernandina Beach High School and will attend the University of Texas at Austin in the fall.
Osprey Village started the Silver Pen Essay Contest this year to help local high school seniors with their collegiate financial burden.
The Silver Pen Essay Contest was open to any high-school senior who lives in a 25-mile radius of Osprey Village and plans to graduate in 2013. Incoming entries were screened and delivered to members of the Resident Advisory Council at Osprey Village for the formal judging process. This Advisory Council consists of successful retired business professionals, educators and community leaders. Entries were judged based on several criterion including creativity, fluidity of language, and the ability to convey complex feelings in a concise and clear manner.
This year, Osprey Village asked seniors to discuss how technology has impacted our senior citizens. Older adults have shown the highest rate of growth with technology in the past few years. The United States of Aging Survey 2013 found that an overwhelming number seniors use cell phones, computers, the Internet, and email frequently.
The Silver Pen will be an annual essay contest with changing topics each year. To read the winners’ essays in their entirety or to learn more about The Silver Pen, please visit http://silverpen-slc.com/.
About Osprey Village
Osprey Village is an all-inclusive, luxury retirement community located on Amelia Island, Fla. The community’s care-free lifestyle helps members live longer, healthier and happier lives by offering an array of amenities including maintenance-free living, daily fine dining, weekly housekeeping, a nationally recognized wellness program and on-site health services. The community features a variety of floor plans including single-family cottage homes and condominium-style villas. Assisted-living and memory-care rooms are also available for those who need to make a transition from independent living. More information about Osprey Village is located at http://www.Osprey-Village.com.
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The Lakes at Litchfield Names Winners of Essay Contest
The Lakes at Litchfield Names Winners of Essay Contest
Pawleys Island, SC (PRWEB) September 07, 2013
The Lakes at Litchfield, a luxury retirement community located in Pawleys Island, S.C., gave away nearly $ 3,750 in cash prizes to two winners of the community’s Silver Pen Essay Contest.
The 2013 Winners were:
Elizabeth Joyner, first place
Joyner graduated from Georgetown High School.
Samuel Welch, second place
Welch graduated from Waccamaw High School and will attend Clemson University’s Honor College in the fall in hopes of majoring in engineering.
The Lakes at Litchfield started the Silver Pen Essay Contest this year to help local high school seniors with their collegiate financial burden.
The Silver Pen Essay Contest was open to any high-school senior who lives in a 25-mile radius of The Lakes at Litchfield and plans to graduate in 2013. Incoming entries were screened and delivered to members of the Resident Advisory Council at The Lakes at Litchfield for the formal judging process. This Advisory Council consists of successful retired business professionals, educators and community leaders. Entries were judged based on several criterion including creativity, fluidity of language, and the ability to convey complex feelings in a concise and clear manner.
This year, The Lakes at Litchfield asked seniors to discuss how technology has impacted our senior citizens. Older adults have shown the highest rate of growth with technology in the past few years. The United States of Aging Survey 2013 found that an overwhelming number seniors use cell phones, computers, the Internet, and email frequently.
The Silver Pen will be an annual essay contest with changing topics each year. To read the winners’ essays in their entirety or to learn more about The Silver Pen, please visit http://silverpen-slc.com/.
About The Lakes at Litchfield
The Lakes at Litchfield is an all-inclusive, continuing care retirement community (CCRC) on Pawleys Island, S.C. The community’s care-free lifestyle helps members live longer, healthier and happier lives by offering an array of amenities including maintenance-free living, daily fine dining, weekly housekeeping, a personalized wellness program and continuing-care health services. Members can choose from a variety of floor plans including single-family cottage homes and condominium-style villas. Assisted-living, memory-care and skilled-nursing units are also available for those who need to make a transition from independent living. More information about The Lakes at Litchfield is located at http://www.Lakes-Litchfield.com.
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Yellow Bridge Interactive Blog Contest Winner Announced
Yellow Bridge Interactive Blog Contest Winner Announced
Pittsburgh (PRWEB) December 17, 2012
From late October through early December, the Pittsburgh graphic and web design firm, Yellow Bridge Interactive, held a contest for who could write the most imaginative and insightful blog post about what direction web design would take next. The web design contest aimed to engage the local design community in a fun and friendly competition. With respect to the past rapid development of the Internet with all its improved style and functionality, Yellow Bridge was curious what users thought would happen over the next decade.
The two winners were awarded prizes for their excellent entries. Andrew Mortimer, taking first place, won a Kindle Fire HD. Sadie Stresky, taking second, was awarded a $ 100 Amazon gift card. Yellow Bridge congratulates and thanks all participants who took the time to publish and submit their thoughts on what the Internet would hold in the future.
In “A Picture of Web Design 10 Years from Now,” Andrew Mortimer predicts in his post that, as has already been trending, the Internet will continue to develop in a way that reflects the users themselves. Just as we create Internet avatars for us now, we will continue developing our online selves, and the Internet will grow to accommodate this even more. With each new generation, the Internet becomes accessible to more people as more grow up with these technologies. The increased popularization will expand the use of the Internet, and the Internet will become more available, more intuitive, and favor the user more and more.
In “Web Design and the Internet, 10 Years from Now,” Sadie Stresky envisions a future where technology has advanced to the point of total cloud integration. Today, we tend to integrate computer-related devices, such as smartphones, tablets, printers, and MP3 players. In the future, however, this scope will be far more encompassing, including household appliances like washing machines and vacuum cleaners. The appliances and devices in a home will be programmed to communicate with each other to “create a seamless user experience.”
Yellow Bridge Interactive is a web design firm in the South Hills of Pittsburgh. The company works with businesses to design and redesign websites, set up blogs, design logos, and provide SEO-friendly website consulting. YBI periodically hosts contests and polls to engage members of Pittsburgh’s growing web design community.
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Total Phase Sponsors Prizes for the BeagleBone Cape Plug-In Board Design Contest Hosted by BeagleBoard.org
Total Phase Sponsors Prizes for the BeagleBone Cape Plug-In Board Design Contest Hosted by BeagleBoard.org
Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) November 08, 2012
Total Phase, a provider of industry-leading USB, I2C, SPI, and CAN embedded systems tools, is pleased to announce its sponsorship of the BeagleBone Cape Plug-in Board Design Contest. Hosted by BeagleBoard.org, the contest provides embedded engineers and hobbyists with the opportunity to see their BeagleBone cape plug-in board design put into full production. Total Phase has worked closely with BeagleBoard.org and Texas Instruments, Incorporated (TI) for several years. As a result, Total Phase is sponsoring more than $ 5,000 in prizes for contest participants.
Contestants can win Total Phase prizes two different ways. First, all online visitors will have the opportunity to win Total Phase tools during weekly contests hosted by BeagleBoard.org. Second, the top three design contest winners, selected by a panel of judges from BeagleBoard.org, TI and CircuitCo Electronics for their innovative designs, will receive their choice of a Total Phase USB, I2C, SPI, or CAN development kit. All design entries are due by Dec. 31, 2012. The winners will be announced on Jan. 14, 2013. Details of the prizes and judging criteria can be found on the contest page.
“We’re excited about the launch of our BeagleBone Cape Plug-in Board Design Contest,” said Alejandro Erives, Product Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments. “The support from Total Phase adds increased value to the contest by providing a broad range of prizes that help BeagleBone enthusiasts enhance functionality and turn their BeagleBone into unique projects. We appreciate having Total Phase as a sponsor of this contest.”
“Total Phase is pleased to be a part of the BeagleBone design contest,” said Derek Fung, VP Business at Total Phase, Inc. “We believe that our line of debugging and development tools will be a valuable resource for contestants in their design efforts. We wish everyone the best of luck and look forward to seeing all the creative cape plug-in board designs submitted in this contest.”
BeagleBone and the Cape Plug-In Board Design Contest
BeagleBone is a credit-card-sized Linux computer that connects with the Internet and runs software such as Android 4.0 and Ubuntu. It allows developers to evaluate Sitara™ AM335x ARM® Cortex™-A8 processors from TI with a single cable and under 10-second Linux boot; enabling development in less than 5 minutes. Users can add cape plug-in boards to easily augment the BeagleBone’s capabilities.
For more information about the contest, or see a complete listing of prizes, please visit http://beagleboard.org/capecontest/
About Total Phase
Total Phase manufactures user-friendly, powerful, and affordable USB, I2C, and SPI development tools for embedded systems engineers. Total Phase tools combine best-of-breed features, Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X support, a royalty-free API, free software updates, and free lifetime support, making them perfect additions to any engineer’s toolbox. Please visit us at http://www.totalphase.com/.
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