SPI Announces Winners of First Student Video Contest

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November 21, 2011

SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association is pleased to announce the winners of our  “Shaping Your World” Student Video Contest.  In celebration of our 75th anniversary, SPI invited all college and graduate school students studying in plastics programs to submit original videos that honor plastics’ innovation. We were extremely impressed with the videos we received. They will all  help to spread the good news about how plastics benefit our society. View all of the student videos here.

The SPI panel of judges, plastics industry professionals who serve on the association’s Communications & Marketing Advisory Committee, selected the following as our three winners:

• 1st Place --  “Wake Up! It’s the Plastics Age” submitted by Jason Paris of the Pennsylvania College of Technology

• 2nd Place -- “The True Meaning of Plastics” submitted by Angela Beltran of the University of Akron    

• 3rd Place - ”Plastics” submitted by Emily Bowser & Meghan Stefanko of Penn State-Behrend

  
  
  

Here are the prizes that the winners will receive:

• First Prize:An iPad2 with 64GB, Wi-Fi +3G; $2,000 awarded by check; and a three-day trip toNPE2012in Orlando, FL (including round-trip air transportation and hotel accommodations for the winner, and one NPE2012 Expo Pass, plus two Universal Studios Tickets).

• Second Prize:An iPad2 with 32GB and Wi-Fi; $1,000 awarded by check

• Third Prize:An iPad2 with 16GB and Wi-Fi; $500 awarded by check

Thanks to all of the students who submitted videos to the contest.  Look for more SPI student video contests in the future!

The NPE2009 international plastics exposition will take place June 22-26, 2009 at Chicago's McCormick Place. The event is produced by the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI). Co-located with NPE2009 will be the Society of Plastics Engineers' ANTEC^TM2009, the world's largest plastics technical conference, and Gardner Publications' MoldMaking Expo^TM2009 show and conference. Visitwww.npe.org.

Founded in 1937, SPI is the plastics industry trade association representing the third largest manufacturing industry in the United States. SPI's member companies represent the entire plastics industry supply chain, including processors, machinery and equipment manufacturers and raw materials suppliers. The U.S. plastics industry employs 1.1 million workers and provides nearly $379 billion in annual shipments.

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