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MIAMI DADE COLLEGE
SCHOOL OF COMPUTER AND ENGINEERING
TECHNOLOGIES,
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE CAREER SERVICES
AND
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY CRISIS INTERVENTION
TEAM
WEB DESIGN COMPETITION
The School of Computer and Engineering Technologies (SCET) of Miami Dade College (MDC)
is hosting a web design competition to create a new website for the South Florida Crisis
Intervention Team (CIT) of Miami-Dade County. Students will design a web site which will be
judged by MDC and CIT, and the winning web designer will be offered a paid internship with
Miami-Dade County.
CIT officers are uniformed patrol officers who have received special training to respond to crisis
calls pertaining to mental illness. As appropriate, individuals are transported to mental health
receiving facilities for evaluation, treatment, and referrals. The CMHP offers CIT training to
police departments throughout Miami-Dade County.
Additional information will be posted at http://scet.mdc.edu/webcompetition/ .
PRIZES
The five Semi-Finalists chosen by MDC will each receive a MDC Book Bag containing the
following prizes:
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USB Flash Drive
Web Design book provided by Prentice Hall Publishers
MDC/SCET-embossed Leather E-Organizer Case
SUSE Linux Professional (Retail box)
Certificate of Achievement
And other gifts
The winning Web Developer chosen by Miami-Dade County will receive the following prizes:
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A Six-Week Paid Summer Web Development Internship with Miami-Dade
County government (at the rate of $12.91 per hour) with the potential of
becoming a full time Miami-Dade County employee.
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional.
Web design firms may also be brought in to look at contest submissions, so a
good site could easily get you fame outside the department.
ELIGIBILITY
Competitors must meet the following requirements:
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Currently enrolled MDC college student
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18 years of age or older
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Must have completed 45 College Credits by June 1, 2007.
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Must be available to work as a Web Design intern with the Miami-Dade County
for 6-weeks during the Summer 2007 and meet Federal, State and County regulations regarding
employment eligibility (see: http://www.miamidade.gov/jobs/new_hire_processing.asp ).
IMPORTANT DATES
March 15
To April 6
March 26
April 20
May 7
May 11
May 14-18
May 21
On-line registration at: http://www.mdc.edu/sis/ register for
EDU 002 Reference # 431574
Competition begins: Specifications for content, logos, etc. are posted at
http://scet.mdc.edu/webcompetition.
All participants must post initial web page to server at: ftp://147.70.248.12
4:00 PM, Deadline to upload final submission
MDC Judges will announce five Semi-Finalists
MDC Judges will interview the five Semi-Finalists
Judges will interview the five semi-finalists and select three Finalists for
submission to the Miami-Dade County to decide the Winner.
Any changes or updates will be announced on the Web at http://scet.mdc.edu/webcompetition/ .
RULES
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All designs must be produced solely by the student.
Individual web designs must be uploaded via FTP to a designated web server
provided by MDC.
Designs should reflect the theme: South Florida Crisis Intervention Team
Submitted web designs should operate effectively with any browser, on any
platform. For more information, visit http://scet.mdc.edu/webcompetition/
All entries become the property of MDC, which has the exclusive right to make
use of all or a portion of the web site, as submitted or as may be modified by
MDC, the Miami-Dade County or their agents, for any purpose.
No web site may include copyrighted or trademarked materials without written
permission to quote such materials by the creator or owner of such intellectual
property, and a copy of such permission is made available to MDC.
Completed web designs must be uploaded by 4:00 pm on May 7, 2007.
CONTENT
The following are the requirements for the web content:
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Information about the South Florida Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)
Links to, and information about, Miami-Dade County Government
Video content provided by CIT
CIT contact information, CIT logo, photographs, links to appropriate web pages,
and other required CIT content (see handout).
Use of any web tool and technique is allowed , as long as the result is a web site that is useful to
CIT and the public, easy to maintain, and aesthetically pleasing. Web sites must be functional in
a standard web environment. Pages should operate under current HTML standards. Judges will
view pages in current versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Mozilla in
resolutions of both 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 on Windows XP platforms, and may also test
submissions on Linux and Apple Macintosh platforms. Web pages need not look identical in all
configurations but should be functional in all browsers.
MAINTAINABILITY
Web site submissions will be judged on the ability to maintain web site content over several
years. The people maintaining the site will have experience with HTML but not necessarily with
every scripting tool (such as PHP, Python or Perl). Such tools are allowed, but insure that routine
changes can be made without editing scripts. Plain HTML pages would also constitute a
maintainable site provided they are easy to find in the submission’s directory structure.
RESOURCES
MDC Students may use the CIS Computer Lab and the College Computer Courtyard to design
their web pages. An internal College web server will also be provided to MDC students to
upload, view and test their web pages.
EVALUATION
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A panel of judges will consist of MDC faculty and professionals.
Judges will consider the site's visual appeal, functionality, usability, content,
layout, load times, browser compatibility, consistent look-and-feel, and other
design parameters.
Judges will also look at the source code (both HTML and scripting, if applicable)
and other design features.
All entries should have working directories and links.
By entering this competition, students explicitly grant Miami Dade College the right to use their
name and likeness for college purposes. All entries will become the property of Miami Dade
College.
QUESTIONS
Direct any questions about the competition to your Campus Computer Information Systems
Department.