Opportunities

This current Student Digest as well as the past ones are posted on the Architecture web page under CURRENT STUDENTS/Resources: http://www.arch.calpoly.edu/current/index.html.

Competitions

  1. The Seasteading Institute (TSI) is looking for creative and talented designers to construct a seastead using 3-D modeling software. A seastead is a floating platform that allows people to permanently settle the ocean as they do land. Professional naval engineers have already designed a bare platform. What you build on the platform is up to you. It may be a hospital, a casino, a residential community, a cricket stadium, or something entirely different. It is a great chance to design something quite unusual!
    Winning designs will be rewarded with cash prizes for $2000, be featured on the TSI website, in our press materials (we’ve already been featured in Wired and on Slashdot), and on our merchandise.
    Deadline: Friday, May 1st, 2009.
    For a detailed list of prizes and official rules, visit Seasteading Institute's web page
    For additional information, contact Contests
  2. 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom. (Registration Deadline: May 4, 2009)
    For additional information visit Open Architecture Network web page.
  3. Entry Fee: $25 USD (waived for entrants from developing nations)
  4. Smarter Better Houses (Deadline: Electronic and mailed components of entries must be received by midnight on May 31, 2009.)
    Go to our Competitions web page.
  5. AIAS/ICPF Chair Affair 2009 design competition (Entry submission deadline: March 12, 2009).
    Go to our Competitions web page.
  6. Lifecycle Building Challenge: designing this building...and the next (Submission deadline: August 30, 2009)
    Go to our Competitions web page.
  7. The Design Trust for Public Space and The Bronx Museum of the Arts competition (Registration deadline April 24, 2009)
    Go to our Competitions web page.
  8. International Beach & Pool 2008/09 furniture and accessories competition (Registration deadline: April 2, 2009)
    Go to our Competitions web page.
  9. AIA Arthur N. Tuttle Jr. Graduate Fellowship in Health Facilities Planning and Design Application (Deadline: April 29, 2009)
    Go to our Scholarship web page.
  10. Competitions announcements from COMPETITIONS Magazine (various deadlines)
    Go to our Competition Magazine: Postings web page

Course offerings for Spring 2009

For further information, go to our Course Offerings web page.

Fellowships/Grants

  1. SOM Traveling Fellowship (Intend to apply deadline: Monday, April 14, 2009)
    Go to our Opportunities web page.
  2. The Deborah J. Norden Fund awards a total of up to $5,000 annually in travel study grants to students and recent graduates in the fields of architecture, architectural history, and urban studies.
    Go to our Scholarship web page.

Internships

  1. Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) are always looking for exceptional talent and consider Cal Poly an excellent source for that talent.  However, WDI is a project-based company whose talent needs vary as the result of dynamic project requirements.  Internships and employment programs are therefore quite fluid. A good source of information, and a way to apply directly, may be found at www.disneycareers.com .
  2. WDI will visit Cal Poly through representation the CAED Career Fair on 25 February, 2009.  Anyone desiring to communicate with WDI should do so through:       
    Donna Young, Senior Professional Recruiter, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts 1401 Flower Street Glendale, California  91201 or email Donna at: donna.young@disney.com or (818) 544-6500

Lectures

  1. Professor Vincente del Rio will speak on Friday, March 6, 4pm in the Rotunda as part of the Hearst Lecture Series
    Go to our Hearst Lecture Series web page. NEW
  2. In conjunction with the Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP)
    - Monday April 20,2009: Geoffrey Payne: Berg Gallery 4pm
    - Wednesday April 22, 2009: Geoffrey Payne: Berg Gallery 4pm
    - Thursday April 23, 2009: Rita Payne: Berg Gallery noon

Opportunities

  1. 2009 Summer London Travel Program with Prof. Michael Lucas
    Go to our Opportunities web page. NEW

Resume Building

  1. To help "Sustain our Profession" (engineering and design) BENTLY recently deployed a major upgrade to the “Student Only” Resume Center service on the Be Communities web site. This enhanced service gives you the opportunity to easily post or update your resume in a system that thousands of prospective employers from the design and engineering communities will be reviewing.
    Go to our Current Students web page.

Reviews

Refer to the previous Student Digests.

Scholarships

  1. Since 2001, the Tile Contractors’ Association of America has had the honor of awarding two annual merit scholarships in the amount of $2,000.00 to outstanding architectural students. To date, TCAA has awarded scholarships to fourteen exceptionally talented students (Application deadline: April 21, 2009)
    Go to our Other Scholarship web page.

Workshops

Please refer to previous Student Digests

Miscellaneous Information

  1. Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner Park Cinemas, 3:00 PM Sun, Mar 08 1100 Pine St., Paso Robles, CA 93449.
    Go to San Luis Obispo International Film Festival web page. NEW
  2. Global Architecture Brigades, a young volunteer collective dedicated to the design and construction of projects that respond to the most essential needs of urban communities in developing nations.
    Go to our Opportunities web page.
  3. College Base Fee
    The officers of the CBF have voted to reimburse the LEED Practice Test fee of $400 for twenty (20) students who have successfully completed the examination. Please email Henri de Hahn and send all original receipts and proof of having successfully completed the examination to Alissa Magorian. We will promptly process your request. Go to our College Based Fees web page.
  4. College Base Fee Initiative
    Students' comments and feedback from the meetings will be posted at Student Comments and Feedback web page and updated daily. IMPORTANT
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