A video produced for the Faculty of Applied Science to encourage high school students, especially women and other under-represented groups to consider engineering as a career, has won its second international award.
Engineering the Future, produced by Vancouver's The Eyes Multimedia Productions, features two UBC engineering students, Sundiep Tehara and Victor Szabo, as they take viewers on an informal tour of engineering at UBC. The video illustrates and raises awareness of the rewards of engineering as a career.
The most recent award is a Silver World Medal presented at the 39th Annual New York Festival, an international non-broadcast competition for industrial, educational and informational productions. More than 1,000 entries were received from 39 countries. The video won the silver medal in the Career Guidance Category.
The video also won a Silver Screen Award at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival last year.