Westinghouse N-Vision Announces Science Video Contest

PITTSBURGH, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced sponsorship of a science video contest for middle and high School students focusing on energy.  

Administered through the company's speaker's bureau, N-Vision, the contest is designed to encourage young persons to think about energy in the context of worldwide political, economic and environmental realities.

The contest is open to all middle and high schools where Westinghouse has a presence.  To be eligible, each video must outline three key advantages of nuclear power and two other forms of energy.  The video can be staged as a short play, commercial, news broadcast, talk show, music video, documentary, etc.  Students are encouraged to be creative, yet informative.  

There are two categories of entry – middle school and high school levels.  The winning videos in each category will receive the following:  the school science department will receive $3,000 for its educational needs; and each student who took part in assisting with the video will receive $100 for school supplies.  Specific guidelines can be found on the Contest Application on Westinghouse's website at:  www.westinghousenuclear.com and under the "Communities" section/Student Video Contest on Forms of Energy.  Teachers and schools are encouraged to enter interested students in the contest and turn their videos in by May 7, 2010.  

Westinghouse's N-Vision Program encourages education of youth in science, technology and mathematics.  

Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation (TKY:6502), is the world's pioneering nuclear energy company and is a leading supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world.  Westinghouse supplied the world's first PWR in 1957 in Shippingport, Pa.  Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for approximately one-half of the world's operating nuclear plants, including 60 percent of those in the United States.

SOURCE Westinghouse Electric Company

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