First, second and third place winners will be recognized in each classification with a certificate and a monetary awards of $75, $50 and $25, respectively. The Best of Show winner (Roland B. Snow Award) will be announced before the Sosman Lecture and at the Basic Science Division Business Meeting. The Best of Show will receive the Roland B. Snow Award, which includes a $100 monetary award and a commemorative glass piece.

Participants are encouraged to submit entries in one or more of the following categories:

• Optical Microscopy (including confocal)
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Transmission Electron Microscopy
• Microanalysis / Combined Techniques
• Scanning Probe Microscopy
• Undergraduate Studies

Rules of Entry:

Previous entries are not acceptable.

Only 2 entries per class per person.

Entire poster should be mounted on stiff white cardboard or laminated and should have the dimensions

41 cm by 51 cm. Single prints shall be no smaller than 20 by 25 cm. In the case of multiple prints, there shall be no more than four and each shall be no larger than 13 by 18 cm.

Entries shall be clearly labeled on the front face with the following information:

• Category
• Concise title
• 25- to 75-word description of technical significance
• Names and affiliations of contributors (Label entry on the back with name and return address)

Undergraduate student entrants must be enrolled in ceramic courses at the time photographs are produced.

If fewer than four entries are received per classification, they may be combined with another classification

Entries will be returned one year after the display if requested in writing to ACerS.

Permission to Use
The American Ceramic Society arranges to have some of the winning Ceramographic posters published on the back cover of the Journal each year. All Entrants must complete the Permission to Use Form and submit it along with a copy (electronic preferred) of the poster entry to Tricia Nicol. Receipt of the form allows ACerS to send your poster to Wiley for possible publication in the Journal.

Entry Deadline: Actual posters (not digital files) must be received by Karren More by no later than October 13, 2010.  If you wish to bring your poster to MS&T instead, you must bring it to the display area at the convention center no later than 10:00 a.m. Sunday, October 17, 2010.   Posters will be judged at this time.

Contact Dr. More with any questions and send all entries to arrive by October 13th, to:

Dr. Karren More
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1 Bethel Valley Rd.
Building 4515, MS 6064
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6064

Any questions, e-mail: morekl1@ornl.gov or phone: (865) 574-7788