Campus Firewatch, in partnership with the People’s Burn Foundation and the Michael H. Minger Foundation, announces the launch of the Campus Firewatch Media Project. This project will provide students with an opportunity to learn and write about fire safety from their perspective. Starting in September 2008, the goal is to have one article each month appear in Campus Firewatch written by either a high-school senior or college student focusing on fire safety. For each article accepted, the author will received a stipend of $500.00.

A panel of judges will review the submissions and select the best ones to appear each month. This panel includes;

• Ed Comeau, publisher of Campus Firewatch
• Robert Halton, editor in chief of Fire Engineering Magazine
• Dan Jones, editor in chief of National Fire & Rescue Magazine and Chapel Hill (NC) Fire Chief
• Shawn Longerich, director of the People’s Burn Foundation
• Gail Minger, director of the Michael H. Minger Foundation
• Jerry Naylis, fire series acquisitions editor, Pennwell Publications
• Janet Wilmoth, editorial director of Fire Chief Magazine

This is an outstanding opportunity to engage students in learning more about fire safety and for fire professionals to also learn about the student perspective on this problem.

• Encourage students to learn more about fire safety and write articles from their perspective
• Provide an opportunity for journalism students to get published
• Develop content for Campus Firewatch from a student’s perspective on the fire safety problem/issues

• Fire safety, why students don’t seem to care
• The challenges of finding a fire-safe house off-campus
• How to reach today’s Millennial students about fire safety
• Providing fire safety to disabled students
• What should students know about fire safety, on-campus, off-campus and on vacation
• What is fire, how does it start, grow and spread
• What does fire do to me?
• Why are students disabling the smoke alarms
• Creative educational approaches to fire safety

• Campus Firewatch Resource Page and Media Spokesperson Page (www.campus-firewatch.com)
• People’s Burn Foundation (www.peoplesburnfoundation.org)
• Fire Engineering (www.fireengineering.com)
• Fire Chief Magazine (www.firechief.com)
• U.S. Fire Administration (http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/citizens/college/index.shtm)

• This project is open to any student who is enrolled, full-time, in a college, university or is a high school senior at the time of submission.
• This project will run from September 2008 until August 2009.
• One academic reference and contact information must be provided that can verify the enrollment status of the student (i.e., professor, guidance counselor, principal, etc.).
• The article must be between 1,000 and 2,000 words (1,500 words is an optimal size).
• Full contact information (name, title, organization, telephone number email address) for anyone interviewed for the article must be provided for verification purposes.
• Complete references must be provided for any statistics cited.
• Judges will be reviewing submissions for both content and style.  (Spelling and grammar count – check your writing and have someone proofread it!)
• A maximum of one article will be selected each month for publication in Campus Firewatch.
• For each article selected, the author will receive a payment of $500.00
• Each submission becomes the intellectual property of Campus Firewatch.  The author provides permission for Campus Firewatch to publish the article in a future issue of Campus Firewatch or in any other publication selected by Campus Firewatch.
• The articles must be submitted as a Microsoft Word or Google Document.  Author contact information must be provided in the header on each page to include:
  
  
  • Name
  • Mailing address
  • Email address
  • Telephone number
  • School attending
  • Year of graduation
  • Current year of enrollment
  • Age
  • Major

Ed Comeau
Publisher
Campus Firewatch
ecomeau@campus-firewatch.com
413-323-6002

You will receive an acknowledgment when the article is received. If you do NOT receive an acknowledgment within two business days it will be the responsibility of the submitter to contact Campus Firewatch, either by email or telephone, to confirm receipt.

• These rules and guidelines can be modified at any time by Campus Firewatch.
• This project is being funded by Campus Firewatch, the People’s Burn Foundation and the Michael H. Minger Foundation.
• Employees and immediate family members of employees of Campus Firewatch, the People’s Burn Foundation and the Michael H. Minger Foundation are not eligible to participate in this project.