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2025-2026 Student Paper Competition

ANSI Rebrands Flagship Conference: ANSI Innovation Summit Replaces World Standards Week

“Boy Writing with Sister” 1875 Albert Anker

 

ANSI Student Paper Competition paused for 2025

No award for the 2024 cycle (per COE Chairperson)

“A Girl Writing; The Pet Goldfinch” 1870 Henriette Browne

 

The Society for Standardization Professionals Paper Competition 2025

 

 

Updated January 7, 2024

 

For nearly twenty years now,  the American National Standards Institute Committee on Education administers a student paper competition intended to encourage understanding of the global standards system that also provides a solid prize — in the $1000 to $5000 range.  The topic of the 2024 Student Paper Competition will be What Role Do or Could Standards Play in Safe and Effective Implementation of Artificial Intelligence Applications/Systems?

Student Paper Competition Flyer 2024 – Entries due 7 June 2024

For the past six years Standards Michigan has hosted Saturday morning workshops to help students (and faculty) interested in entering the contest.   We will soon post those dates on our CALENDER.  We typically host them — three sessions ahead of the deadline — on Saturday mornings.

We provide links to previous paper winners and refer you to Lisa Rajchel: lrajchel@ansi.org for all other details.

Related:

 

“Normal” Things Americans Do That The Rest Of The World Will Never Understand

ANSI Accredited Standards Developers | Contact Information

2023 Student Paper Competition

2022 Student Paper Competition

2020 Student Paper Winner / Remanufacturing

2020 Student Paper Winner / Road Traffic Safety

ANSI 2019 Student Paper Winner: Cybersecurity & Ukraine Power Grid Attack

2019 Student Paper Winner / Standards in Crisis Prevention & Response:

2018 ANSI Student Paper Winner / Internet of Things

2017 ANSI Student Paper Winner / Cyborg Gen 2330

2016 Student Paper Winner | Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness

2016 Student Paper Winner / World Without Standards

United States Standards Strategy

Graduation, Dating, Engagements, Weddings, Births & Obituaries


Michigan State University

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Weddings

 



Nine years later and first day as husband and wife they got to finally sneak a kiss in one of the first places they ever passed notes

Hun School Of Princeton

“…I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” –W.B. Yeats | ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’

“Nature’s Masterpiece”

Several colleges and universities have “kissing benches” or similar traditions tied to romance on campus.

Michigan State University Beaumont Tower: Nick and Myra Kanillopoulos

Syracuse University. Kissing Bench: This bench on the Quad is steeped in tradition. Legend has it that if a couple kisses on the bench, they will eventually marry. Conversely, if a single person sits there alone, they risk staying single forever.

University of Idaho.  Hello Walk and Kissing Rock: While not a bench, this area on campus features a large rock where students have historically kissed. It’s a romantic tradition for couples at the university.

Florida State University Kissing Bench

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Clemson University Lover’s Lane

Illinois State University

University of Cambridge: St. John’s College Bridge of Sighs

University of Oxford: The Bridge of Sighs

University of Bath Somerset County: Sham Castle

Weddings

Sport News

 



Michigan Girl, Our Michigan Girl….

Sport Standards

 

 

Mixed Gender Sport by Design

Engineering in Sport



“Rowing is more poetry than sport.” — George Pocock (‘Boys in the Boat’ 2024), a British-born boat builder, rowing coach, and influential figure in American rowing, best known for his craftsmanship of racing shells and his philosophical approach to the sport.

Winter Sport

“Adagio for Strings” Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings (1936) is a slow, lyrical orchestral piece adapted from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11. Premiering in 1938 under Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, it features a simple, ascending melodic line that builds through intensifying harmonies and dynamics, peaking in anguished dissonance before resolving into quiet resignation.

In Western classical music, the “Adagio” represents the pinnacle of 20th-century American romanticism amid modernism’s rise. Barber rejected avant-garde experimentation (e.g., serialism by Schoenberg), drawing instead from Bach, Brahms, and Sibelius for tonal accessibility and emotional directness.

Michigan Central | Oakland University School of Music, Theater and Dance

Barber’s Other Works:

Evensong “Knoxville: Summer of 1915”

Dia de los Muertos 2025

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Los Angeles Unified School District

 

The Halloween Problem

A well-intentioned query and the Halloween Problem

Anne Fitzpatrick

 

Abstract:  The author’s description of the Halloween Problem demonstrates the role of cautionary tales in the history of computing. The Halloween Problem emerged in the context of structured query language optimization in relational database research. Normally, a query optimizer works by measuring system calls and paging requests and applying heuristics to the entire access path tree. Query optimization was one of the most challenging tasks facing System R researchers at IBM. These experiments with query optimization form the milieu in which the Halloween Problem emerged.

 

 

 

Cornish Pasties

Michigan Upper Peninsula

Dining Services Recipe  | MTU Alumni Recipe

2024 Financial Report: Net Position $479,190,705

Michigan Technological University

 

Coffee Society

Annual report and financial statements 31 July 2024 | “Campus” Masterplan

Durham (Dunholm O.E.) as a Northumbrian learning settlement originates with its Cathedral; founded in 995 AD as part of a Benedictine monastery.  Monks maintained libraries and created an intellectual hub for the English speaking peoples.  Fast forward a millennium and we find “DU Coffee Society” which describes itself as a welcoming space for students to learn about coffee making, latte art and each other.

FYI:

LSE: “The Benefits and Costs of International Higher Education Students to the UK Economy

PwC: UK Higher Education Financial Sustainability Report

 

Autumn Syllabus Week 45 | November 3 – November 9

Jordan Peterson and Douglas Murray – The Importance of Gratitude

Monday | November 3 | Colloquium 16:00 UTC

Salutariness

Tax-Free Bonds

Tuesday | November 4 | Colloquium 16:00 UTC

2029 National Electrical Code Panel 3

Voting Precincts

 

Wednesday | November 5 | Colloquium 16:00 UTC

International Fire Code

Standard for Portable Fire Extinguishers

 

Thursday |  November 6| Colloquium 15:00 UTC

Modular Classrooms

Fenestration

Friday |  November 7 | Colloquium 15:00 UTC

Sport Scoreboards

Saturday |  November 8

Sunday |  November 9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Egg Bites

UNR Net Position 2024: $677,072 (000) Page 4 | Organization Chart | Master Plan ’23-’27

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities  |  Council for Higher Education Accreditation

Egg Bites - Scrambled Eggs in an English Muffin

Extension

“Sierra Nevada” 1871 | Albert Bierstadt

 

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