Awards

On Friday, April 24, 2009, the award winners and honorable mentions will be announced via the AIAS Web site. The award winning entries will be displayed at the 2009 AIA Convention and Design Exposition in San Francisco, April 30-May 2, 2009. A press release listing the winning projects will be sent to the schools of all participating students as well as posted on the AIAS Web site (www.aias.org/aarp).

Winning students/teams and their AIAS chapters* will receive cash prizes totaling up to $15,950, with the distribution as follows:

First Prize                             $6,000
AIAS Chapter:                       $1000
Second Prize                         $4,000
AIAS Chapter:                       $550

Third Prize                            $2,500       
AIAS Chapter:                       $400

Three Honorable Mentions:      $500 each

The winning entries will be published in the Fall 2009 issue of Crit, Journal of the AIAS. AARP and the AIAS reserve the right to publish photographs of all entries and names of student entrants without compensation.

* If there is not an AIAS chapter at the student’s school, the chapter prize money will go towards the formation of a new chapter there.