CollegeWeekLive Announces YouTube Video Contest and Scholarships for College-Bound Students

Market Wire, February, 2008

CollegeWeekLive ( http://www.collegeweeklive.com ), the largest virtual college fair, today announced a roster of exciting cash-prizes for college-bound high school students including a college video contest (featured on YouTube.com), and two college scholarship essay contests for U.S. and international students respectively.

On March 25th and 26th, thousands of students from around the world will log into CollegeWeekLive, a unique online-only event that will let them connect and interact with 200 participating U.S. colleges and universities. This free, Web-based event gives students and their parents a LIVE connection with admissions experts, college staff and undergrads -- integrating Web-based video, texting, and other new technologies. Over 16,000 students have already signed up to participate.

For an informative virtual tour of CollegeWeekLive visit: http://www.collegeweeklive.com .

CollegeWeekLive Contests and Scholarships Help Students Pay For College:

To help defray the cost of paying to attend college, CollegeWeekLive is now offering compelling cash prizes, open to any student who has registered for the event at www.collegeweeklive.com :

1) The $2,500 CollegeWeekLive Video Contest

CollegeWeekLive is seeking imaginative submissions for 30-60 second videos, in which students can creatively describe their personal college search experience. "The college search process can be stressful, fun, exhausting, or exciting. So grab a video camera and tell us about your experience," said Mike Lewis, VP of Marketing. "Tell us about the stress of narrowing your school choices, about an interview that went well (or not so well), or -- just hit record and vent about the whole process in general!"

Submitted videos will be screened and posted to the CollegeWeekLive YouTube channel within 24 hours. The five videos that receive the most views will be selected as finalists, and the winner will be determined during CollegeWeekLive -- March 25th and 26th.

Get Creative, Get Viral!

Since the five finalists will be determined by views, applicants are encouraged to be creative to make their videos as interesting as possible! Mike Lewis suggests: "Increase your views by sending your video to friends and family, link it to your blog or website, and send the video to your Facebook friends using our $2,500 CollegeWeekLive Video Contest application."

For more information, contest rules, to register and to submit your video go to: http://www.collegeweeklive.com/college-video-contest.html .

2) Scholarships -- Two $2,500 Awards

In addition to the Video Contest, CollegeWeekLive is proud to announce two college scholarship opportunities for the March 2008 show. Worth $2,500 each, these scholarships and can be applied to any accredited college, university, or trade school. Both college scholarships are totally free, and have only two basic requirements:

College Scholarship Essay, U.S. Students:

In 100 words or less, explain one characteristic you have that will make you successful in college.

College Scholarship Essay, International Students:

In 75 words or less, explain why you want to go to college in the United States.

The second requirement is to log into and participate in CollegeWeekLive on March 25th and 26th, 2008. Applications are now open and the deadline for all entries is March 3rd.

For more information, rules or to apply for either scholarship go to: http://www.collegeweeklive.com/scholarships.html .

For an up to the minute listing of scheduled presenters, featured colleges, and to register for CollegeWeekLive-March 2008, please visit: http://www.collegeweeklive.com .

About CollegeWeekLive

CollegeWeekLive is a unique virtual event designed to allow people involved in the college admissions process (students, parents, teachers, counselors, colleges and universities) to connect and successfully interact with one another in ways that are impossible at physical events, through powerful Web-based software and services. PlatformQ, the producer of CollegeWeekLive, is a new company whose mission is to leverage the accessibility of online events to connect individuals, companies and organizations -- across North America and internationally -- who might otherwise not be able to travel to physical events or communicate with leading experts or thought leaders.

CollegeWeekLive and PlatformQ are trademarks of PlatformQ, Inc. All other trademarks or service marks are property of their respective owners.

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