MDM Announces $50,000 Prize for Social Change Project

The Masters of Digital Media (MDM) Program at Vancouver's Great Northern Way campus announced that it will award $50,000 to a chosen digital media-based project that promotes a philanthropic cause or positive social change initiative. The proposed project must address issues of environmental and educational sustainability within a local, national, or global community. The $50,000 prize includes a team of multidisciplinary graduate students enrolled in the Masters of Digital Media Program. Together, the selected student team and the MDM graduate students will define and execute the final project over a 13-week period, starting January 4th, 2010. Project proposals must include a 500-word statement of intent, a 250-word letter of introduction, and an outline of which members will be involved in the project's development team. The deadline for entry is November 13th. Finalists will deliver a final pitch at the Centre for Digital Media on the week of November 23rd.