SAS^® Student Ambassador Program

Overview The SAS Student Ambassador Program is a competitive program that recognizes and supports students who use SAS technologies in innovative ways that benefit their respective industries and fields of study. Select students will be named SAS Student Ambassabors and earn the opportunity to present their research at the 2009 SAS Global Forum in National Harbor, Maryland on March 22-25.   In the Spotlight SAS Student Ambassadors 2008 Meet the SAS Student Ambassadors for SAS Global Forum 2008. (PDF: 2.45MB) View SAS Student Ambassadors video blogs from SAS Global Forum 2008. Inside SAS Global Forum: Episode 25 - SAS Student Ambassadors Inside SAS Global Forum: Episode 38 - SAS Student Ambassador #1 Inside SAS Global Forum: Episode 55 - SAS Student Ambassador #2 What are benefits of being a SAS® Student Ambassador? Have your travel expenses and registration fees paid to attend SAS Global Forum 2009. Be featured and promimently recognized before an international audience by presenting at SAS Global Forum 2009. Interact with a global audience of SAS users from every industry and sector. Gain the unique title of SAS Student Ambassador – a true resume or CV differentiator! Am I eligible for the SAS® Student Ambassador Program? Graduate and undergraduate students are eligible to apply to this program. Recent graduates also may be eligible to apply. The submitted project must have been conducted by the student within 12 months of the submission deadline. In addition, all applicants must have a strong command of the English language. Applicants will be required to submit papers, present projects and participate in question-and-answer sessions in English. What is the application process for the SAS® Student Ambassador Program? The application process consists of two parts: Submit an abstract and a working draft of your project to SAS Global Forum. Working drafts should be no longer than 12 pages. Applications must be submitted by midnight Eastern Standard Time on October 13, 2008. Complete the SAS Student Ambassador Program Application. After completing the application process, SAS Global Forum leaders indicate which papers merit acceptance for presentation. Next, the SAS Student Ambassador Program assesses the eligible papers and notifies the winners. What are the requirements for my submission? An applicant’s submission must meet the same requirements established for all presenters by SAS Global Forum. All submissions will be judged by the SAS Global Forum conference leaders and by the SAS Student Ambassador Program team. What types of projects are appropriate? For a complete listing of conference sections and a description of the types of papers that are appropriate for each specific section, please visit the Conference Sections page of the SAS Global Forum Web site. Appropriate projects will come from numerous areas of study. Examples of conference sections include: Applications Development Coders' Corner Data Mining and Predictive Modeling Data Presentation Data Warehousing, Management and Quality Statistics and Data Analysis Can I see examples of previous winning student submissions? Information on past winners and links to their papers can be found here. (PDF: 234KB) The winners represent a variety of disciplines, conference sections and geographic regions. They all showcase how to use SAS or apply SAS to real-world scenarios.

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