Writing Contest for High Schoolers with Hearing Loss

Winners have their choice of a scholarship and paid travel expenses to Explore Your Future, a week-long summer career exploration program at RIT for students with hearing loss, or a $500 cash prize and all-expenses-paid two-day visit with a parent to RIT.

Teachers are asked to help their students participate by submitting samples of their students’ writing. Samples of class work may include essays, reports, poems or short stories, as well as other samples. For complete contest guidelines and entry information, visit www.rit.edu/NTID/WritingContest. The deadline to submit writing portfolios is Feb. 1. For more information, contact WritingContest@ntid.rit.edu, or call (585) 475-6723 (voice/TTY).

Rochester Institute of Technology is internationally recognized as a leader in computing, engineering, imaging technology, fine and applied arts, and for providing unparalleled support services for students with hearing loss. RIT is home to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, where more than 1,100 students with hearing loss from around the world study, live, and socialize with 14,400 hearing students on RIT’s Rochester, NY campus. U.S. News and World Report has consistently ranked RIT among the nation’s leading comprehensive universities.

Web address: www.rit.edu/NTID