Awards and Recognition

Competition Awards and Winners  |  About the Competition Awards |  Video from the STC Alliance Competition 2020-2021

Congratulations to our 2024 Awardees!

• 2024 STC Alliance Competition Winners

Congratulations to our 2022-23 Awardees!

• 2022-23 STC Alliance Competition (Atlanta - New England - New York - Rochester - South-Central Texas  - Washington DC-Baltimore)

• Thank you to all our Judges and Team Leaders: 2022-2023

• Thank you to all our Judges and Team Leaders: 2020-2021

STC Alliance Award Badges

Winners can download STC Alliance Award badges for use with their social media, signatures, publications, online sites, and resumes. These are available in .png, .eps, and .tif formats.

Download the STC Alliance Award Badges

Ordering Additional Award Certificates

To order, please email Annette Reilly with the names and addresses of recipients.  To pay, please click your selection below:

• Order additional certificates for contributors - $5.00 each

• Order framed certificates for contributors - $35.00 each

Criteria for Awards       

• Best of Show - One Best of Show award can be given by the judges every year. 

  • Distinguished Technical Communication - Clearly superior in all areas. The entry contains no major flaws and few if any, minor flaws. It applies the principles of technical communication in an outstanding way, particularly in the way that it anticipates and fulfills the needs of its audience. 

  • Excellence - Consistently meets high standards in all areas. The entry might contain a single major flaw or a few minor flaws. The entry clearly (if slightly imperfectly) demonstrates an exceptional understanding of technical communication principles.

  • Merit - Consistently meets high standards in most areas. The entry might contain a small number of major or minor flaws, but it still applies technical communication principles in a highly proficient manner.

Award Designs

The STC Rochester chapter's Alliance Competition design team conceived and created the new logo and award badges: 

• • Laurie Fiaretti

  • Julie Wing

  • Bobbi Werner

Several designs were proposed, reviewed, and approved by the participating Chapter Competition Program Chairs on the Alliance Competition Committee.

Winners of the STC Alliance Competition awards may freely download the award badges to use in resumes, press releases, company publications, and on websites, or copies of the winning piece.

The award badges are available in several sizes in (Macintosh) .eps, and .png formats. (EPS files are zipped. See the Download help if you have problems downloading the zipped files.)