NISH National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation & Design The purpose of the NISH National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation & Design is to encourage college students to design creative technological solutions to barriers that prevent people with disabilities from entering or advancing in the workplace. NISH will accept functioning prototypes or systems that create greater access to employment for people with disabilities in these areas: Computer access Environmental accommodations Functional control and access Transportation/mobility Communication assistance To ensure that these devices meet the workforce needs of people with disabilities, devices must be developed in collaboration with a person with a disability. Additionally, greater consideration will be given to those applicants who have consulted with a NISH-affiliated NPA in the design process. NISH can match students and universities with NPAs who are interested in collaborating in the development of assistive technology devices. NISH can also provide technical consultation to assist students in the design process. Contact NISH at scholarship@nish.org for more information. Any undergraduate or graduate level student or student team may submit a design and discussion paper. Three awards are given annually: First place - $10,000 Second place - $ 5,000 Third place - $ 3,000 A matching prize will be awarded to the sponsoring department for each of the design winners. If you are selected as one of the scholarship winners, a representative from each award-winning team will be invited to attend a NISH-sponsored conference held in the spring of 2007. This representative will be expected to provide a poster display at the conference and give a presentation on the device during a conference session. Download the entire pdf document from: http://www.nish.org/NISH/Doc/0/FV8L8PPA9OE4370JIMTHPJJODF/NSAapplicationWEB.pdf Contact person: Therese Stein 571/226-4628 tstein@nish.org Submitted by Kathy Marshall