Eligibility:  Any student enrolled in an undergraduate, M.S. or Ph.D. program is welcome to participate, provided they meet the following criteria: 

• You may only submit one title per contest category. For example, a PhD student may submit a title for a PhD poster, a PhD paper, and a video, but may not submit in an MS category. However, when submitting both a paper and a poster it is best practice that there is little overlap between submissions.
• Students who won a 1^st place award in any category at a previous NCWSS Annual Meeting are not eligible to compete in that category again. For example, an MS student who won 1^st place in an MS poster category in 2023 is not eligible to compete in the MS poster category in 2024, but may submit a title for the MS paper contest.  A PhD student who won a 1^st place in an MS paper contest in 2023 is eligible to participate in the PhD paper contest in 2024.

General guidelines:

• Please do not wait until the last minute to submit your title.
• Please communicate with your advisor before submitting your title.
• Please include your advisor as a co-author.
• The following contest categories will be available. You must select the correct category that corresponds to your degree program in Section Choice 1 on the title submission page.
  1. Undergraduate student poster
  2. MS student poster
  3. MS student paper
  4. PhD student poster
  5. PhD student paper
  6. Student video (Please see the newsletter article from the Extension committee)
• Student contest topical groupings will be assigned by the Program Chair in consultation with Contest Coordinators.
• Please review the contest scoring sheets (linked below) to ensure your poster/presentation addresses the measured criteria.
• ANY CHANGE REQUESTED AFTER A PUBLISHED DEADLINE WILL RESULT IN A 10 POINT DEDUCTION FOR THE CONTEST.

Title/Author submission:  Titles and authors for all contest (poster, oral paper, video) are due September 25.  

Abstract submission:  Abstracts will be available for editing through November 4.  

Poster/presentation submission:  Oral presentations must be submitted by December 2 at the submission site.

• 2024 NCWSS Oral Presentation Contest Scoring Sheet
• 2024 NCWSS Poster Presentation Contest Scoring Sheet
• 2024 NCWSS Video Presentation Contest Scoring Sheet