Nastasja Terry Wins $1000 Grand Prize in IIT’s First Flix2Clix Contest

Chicago, IL — November 2, 2007 —

Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) students were asked to show the world their view of IIT and they responded. Nastasja Terry, a senior mechanical engineering major from Chicago’s Ashburn neighborhood won the contest, including $1000 and bragging rights, for her fast-paced video offering quick glimpses inside and around IIT. Her video will be featured for a year on IIT’s website at www.iit.edu. The best five videos were posted online at www.flix2clix.com for the public to judge.

“I saw the Flix2Clix contest as a creative outlet, an escape from hard-core engineering,” Nastasja said. “It was a chance to think outside the box, to not follow strict rules or governing equations. I’m glad I won and so is my mom. She said ‘don’t come home without that grand’.”

Computer Engineering major Piyush Sinha took second place and $500 and Biomedical Engineer Amber Purcell took third and $250.

Students created short videos about IIT in September and submitted them by early October. A panel of judges made up mostly of students, selected the five best videos, which the public viewed and voted on for two weeks. More than 2100 people voted. The voting extended well beyond IIT’s campus. People from 192 colleges and universities and 85 high schools watched the videos.

Flix2Clix student video contest, organized by IIT’s Communications and Marketing Department, started with 84 teams of students shooting and editing video with their own or borrowing cameras and facilities at IIT’s Digital Media Center. Students were provided access to stock video clips of scenes around IIT and Chicago created specifically for this contest and music. IIT is the first university to sponsor a student video contest of this kind.

 

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