From: Marina.Eastham@Mail.Trincoll.Edu
Subject: Fw: Students Needed! (fwd)
respond quickly and decisively to dynamic market conditions, helping
businesses achieve and maintain a
> competitive advantage.
> 
> Founded in 1972, SAP is based in Walldorf, Germany, and employs more than
10,350 people at offices in more than 40 countries worldwide who are
dedicated to providing a high level of support and service to more than
7,000 companies.
> To Whom It May Concern,
> I found information about National Association of Blind Students of Conn
> on the Internet.
> 
> I represent the SAP/Stevie Wonder Vision Awards program.  Our program
> will award individuals or organizations creating or using technology
> that integrates blind and visually impaired persons into the workforce.
> (more info is available on our website: www.sap.com/vision). I am in
> search of college-level blind and visually impaired students
> who will volunteer to participate as judges for our awards program. As a
> judge, we ask that the students spend a day evaluating and testing
> finalists in our Product of the Year category.  The testing will be
> conducted in a testing facility and will last 1 day in April or May. I
> have attached more detail in the text documents.  Are you someone who
> might point me in the right direction?
> Thank you for your time,
> Gina Marchese
> 
> ****************
> Gina Marchese
> gina.marchese@sap-ag.de
> (ph) 781-684-6433
> (fax) 781-672-6501
> Applications for the SAP/Stevie Wonder Vision Awards are available on
> our website:  www.sap.com/vision.
> 
> 
> SAP/Stevie Wonder Vision Awards
> International Student Review Board Questionnaire
> 
> 
> 1. What college or university do you attend?
> 
> 2. What year are you in?
> 
> 3. When do your classes end for the summer?
> 
> 4. We ask that students evaluate products that they would most likely use
- As such, what sort of products are you comfortable using - products for
the blind or visually impaired?
> 
> 5. Do you consider yourself a beginner, intermediate or expert using
computer technology? (it is not required to know how to use a computer to
participate in this program)
> 
> 6. Why do you want to be on the International Student Review Board?
> 
> 7. Are you able to travel to attend the Testing Day?
> 
> 8. How do you prefer to travel: Bus, Train, Airplane?
> 
> 9. Do you require a companion?
> 
> 
> Please include your name, address and contact information.
> 
> 
> SAP/Stevie Wonder Vision Awards
> 
> International Student Review Board
> 
> The SAP/Stevie Wonder Vision Awards program was launched in May 1997. 
The goal of the program is to recognize individuals and organizations using
or creating technology to help integrate blind and visually impaired
persons into the workforce.
> 
> The Awards program will designate Awards in the following three
categories:
> 1. Outstanding Products: either existing technology products that have
empowered the blind and visually impaired and are in use by real people,
doing real work, in the real world, or prototype products that are judged
best-of-its-kind or
> product-of-the-year.
> 
> 2. Vision Pioneers: outstanding programmers, academic, government, or
business-arena researchers and scientists who have forwarded the cause of
total access and inclusively for the blind and visually impaired through
research and development efforts.
> 
> 3. Role Model Organizations: outstanding organizations, business,
education, non-profit institutions and others that set role model examples
in their use of information technology in creative and effective ways to
integrate the blind and visually impaired
> into the workforce.
> 
> There is no application fee for the Awards.  There will be one winner in
each category that will be awarded up to $250,000.  Winners will be
announced at an Awards Gala in August of 1998.
> 
> An International Student Review Board made up of college-level blind and
visually impaired students will judge finalists in the Outstanding Products
category.  Students will be asked to volunteer their time to participate in
a Testing Day.  Testing Day
> will be the arena where the product finalists will demonstrate their
products and then the students will evaluate the products and judge them
based on a set criteria.
> 
> The International Student Review Board will consist of students from the
United States, Germany and Europe.  While the testing and judging
procedures have not been finalized as of yet, we anticipate that there will
be two Testing Day events - one in the
> US and the other in Germany - conducted simultaneously.  Stevie Wonder
may also participate in Testing Day, however his involvement will be
determined at a later date.
> 
> There will be travel involved to participate in the Testing Day (in the
US only).  SAP America will provide airfare and hotel accommodations for
members of the International Student Review Board.
> 
> 
> For more information, please contact Gina Marchese at SAP America:
800-380-5727 or via email at: gina.marchese@sap-ag.de Or visit the
SAP/Stevie Wonder Vision Awards website at: http//:www.sap.com/vision.
> 
> SAP/Stevie Wonder Vision Awards
> Mission Statement
> 
> 
> The SAP/Stevie Wonder Vision Award Program is designed to promote
innovative technology solutions and opportunities to further integrate
blind and visually impaired individuals into the workforce.
> 
> A joint effort between SAP and Stevie Wonder, the Award Program was
created to raise the awareness and spur the development and distribution of
technology solutions to enable blind and visually impaired individuals to
actively participate in and
> contribute to the business community.  In addition, the program will
identify and honor outstanding products, role model organizations that are
actively employing the visually impaired and significant research and
development efforts in this area.
> 
> Award Goals:
> 
> Appreciate the Strengths of the Blind and Visually Impaired
>     The SAP/Stevie Wonder Vision Award was conceived to recognize the
value and talent of the blind and visually impaired, and their aspirations
for successful and rewarding careers
> Increase the Role and Volume of the Blind and Visually Impaired in the
Workforce
>     By generating awareness of the under-utilization of the blind and
visually impaired in the workforce, the program expects to promote more
opportunities for training and employing these individuals in the workforce
> Increase Exposure for Existing Technology Solutions
>     The SAP/Stevie Wonder Vision Award will promote existing technology
products that have empowered blind and visually impaired individuals to
actively participate in the workforce
> Drive the Need for New Products
>     The Award Program will challenge the technology industry to develop
and make widely accessible new products to assimilate blind and visually
impaired into the workforce
> Promote Research and Development Initiatives and Role Model Organizations
>     Significant research and development efforts will be identified and
supported through the Awards Program, as well as the promotion of role
model organizations who have successfully integrated the blind and visually
impaired into their workforce
> 
> About SAP
> SAP is market and technology leader in client/server enterprise
application software, providing comprehensive solutions for companies of
all sizes and all industry sectors.  Cultivating innovative technologies on
a solid foundation of business experience,
> SAP delivers scaleable solutions that enable its customers to continually
improve upon best business practices.  SAP products empower people to
respond quickly and decisively to dynamic market conditions, helping
businesses achieve and maintain a
> competitive advantage.
> 
> Founded in 1972, SAP is based in Walldorf, Germany, and employs more than
10,350 people at offices in more than 40 countries worldwide who are
dedicated to providing a high level of support and service to more than
7,000 companies.
> 
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