PRG is Calling All Students Interested in Attending USITT

PRG is hosting a student essay contest asking applicants to future-cast the technology attendees will find at the 2025 USITT Expo. The most creative and insightful essay will be named the grand prize winner. PRG will fly the one grand prize winner to Cincinnati, put the winner up, and get the individual into the place where new ideas are generated. The winner can kick the tires on the newest products, and network with leading industry professionals -- at USITT's Stage Conference and Expo.

Production Resource Group will award free of charge:
• One grand prize winner -- one conference pass, five nights hotel stay, and airfare*
• Four runner-up winners will each receive one conference pass
• All five award winners will have their essays published on PRG.com

All winners will be selected based on their entry's creative industry trend future-casting in their response to the contest essay question. The contest is open to all current students and early career professionals who graduated since 2010.

Submissions must be received by February 16, 2015.

Participants need to send an email to contest@prg.com, including:
• Full name
• Current school
• (If early career - school and graduation year)
• Email address
• Phone
• Zip Code
• Essay response

Short essay response to the contest question below:
(Essays must be between 300 and 500 words.)

It is March 2025. You are attending the 2025 USITT Conference and Expo. As you walk through the Expo, attend seminars and presentations, and catch-up with old friends and colleagues from around the country, what is the technology or innovation that everyone is talking about? What is the game-changing buzz of 2025? Please provide 300-500 words of your creative future-casting. Tell us what technology or creative tools we will be seeing ten years from now. What drove its development? Why does it matter? How will it impact the industry?

Contest rules:
Entries must be submitted and received by Monday, February 16, 2015. Entrants must be at least 18 years of age. The contest is open to all current students and early career professionals, which are individuals who have graduated since 2010. Production Resource Group will award one conference pass free of charge per named winner and provide a hotel room (at the hotel of PRG's discretion) for the length of the conference to the named grand prize winner. *Production Resource Group will provide economy class round trip air travel (on the airline of PRG's selection) to only the named grand prize winner from/to the Continental US state submitted via zip code on entry. Production Resource Group is not responsible for any and all other associated costs of travel or conference attendance. Winners will be selected based on the creativity of their entries by a panel of judges at Production Resource Group. All winners will be notified by email on Friday, February 20, 2015.

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