There are tons of great reasons for you to participate! It’s free, fun, and a great way to build relationships and network. You can practice your presentation skills as well as increase exposure for you and the work you’re doing. Bolster your CV (resume) for employment and graduate school, and build your “research portfolio” for graduate school and research scholarship applications (e.g. NSERC, CIHR and SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Awards). Finally, there’s a chance to win great prizes, and who doesn’t love prizes?
Of course! We strongly encourage any student in any discipline to participate in CREATE. It will help make this year’s event even more successful, and diversity is what we strive for. Any major project suitable to your discipline works (the creation, dissemination, or exchange of knowledge or creative activity within one’s discipline). See Classifying Student Scholarship at VIU web page for examples of multi-disciplinary projects.
Yes. We understand students’ research may not be complete in time for the CREATE Conference. Students are welcome to present your problems, ideas, hypotheses, methodologies and any preliminary data that you have.
Yes. Multiple author presentations are accepted. It is a great idea to recognize your faculty supervisor and/or co-investigators, if applicable (with their permission!).
Yes, we offer free poster printing for students through CREATE poster printing grants. Resources are limited and allocated based on registration on a first-come, first-serve basis. Printing requirements will be emailed after you complete the registration, and files must be received by March 21 at the very latest.
Ideally, we will accept all participants for CREATE and do our best to ensure all students can participate. All early bird registrations are guaranteed their spot at CREATE. However, if we receive more registrants than spots available after March 7, then a selection may be required based on the submission date so don't hesitate and register for CREATE as soon as you are able!
Of course! Everyone is welcome to enjoy all aspects of CREATE for free, including all posters and displays, oral presentations/performances/films, and the scholarship slam. We are also looking for student volunteers to help us make this the most successful CREATE event yet! By volunteering you will gain experience in organizing an event which looks great on your resume and is a bonus when applying for scholarships and awards.
During CREATE we are looking for student volunteers to help the event run smoothly. Some duties could include: helping students set up their posters and displays, providing information to students/public about the People's Choice voting and drop boxes, helping set up and take down, distributing advertisements, and other jobs as they arise.
Yes. We are looking for faculty judges to volunteer their time and help judge the various sessions we are hosting.
We are trying to make the judging as simple as possible. We will assign judges 1-3 hour timeslots based on their availability. Judges may be asked to judge 10-minute presentations or performances, posters, displays or Slams. Judges will be given clear instructions with rubrics to assist in their task.
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