Quality Paper Competition

Winner Announced!

Congratulations to Jeff Rosaine. His paper titled “Adding Value to Internal Audits” is the first place winner of our 2008/2009 Quality Paper competition.

We will be running the competition again next year. Please check back in September for more details.

Over the years ASQ Calgary has provided small scholarship awards to our members and local educational institutions. These awards were provided to the winner of a Quality Paper competition, the judges were the ASQ Calgary Executive at the time. This year we thought we could do something a little different. So we have created a Quality Paper competition that is not scholarship based. You don’t have to be in school in order to enter the competition.

The rules are simple:

• The paper must be on a Quality topic and needs to reflect a discussion on quality principle(s);
• The author must demonstrate an awareness and understanding of Quality practices, standards, etc;
• The paper must be a minimum of 500 words not including headings, references, etc and no longer than 1000 words;
• To receive the first prize you must be a paid up member of ASQ Calgary Section 0409;
• MSWord or PDF format, include your name, membership number, and full contact information.

Please submit via email to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) no later than Wednesday May 6th, 2009 @ 12:00pm.

The winner will be announced at our Spring Volunteer Recognition Dinner planned for June 3rd, 2009.

Prizes

• 1st prize (Members only): $250 and Volunteer Recognition Dinner Invitation
• 2nd prize: Free ASQ Membership and Volunteer Recognition Dinner Invitation
• 3rd Prize: Volunteer Recognition Dinner Invitation

Additional rules and information:

All papers will be judged on content (75%) and style (25%).

Content includes:

• Application of quality principles as found in the ASQ body of knowledge
   
• Key Learnings
   
• Applicability to the business environment
   
• Imitation of reality
   
• Relevance of the case study or results obtained

Papers can be but are not limited to application of Business, Healthcare, Education, Government and Research and Design.

No ASQ Executive members are eligible to win the contest.

Judging will be conducted by a three member sub-committee of the ASQ Executive.

Note: ASQ Calgary reserves the right to publish the papers in newsletters and/or on its website. The author retains Intellectual Property and all other rights. As the papers will be posted in public spaces please ensure company confidential/sensitive information is not disclosed.