January 2018 Sponsor's Update

Dear Sponsors:

We hope that you have had a wonderful holiday season! As we begin another year, we look forward to hosting you at Longwood University in Farmville this year for the VJAS Annual Research Symposium. The Symposium will be held from May 22 – 24, 2018. Presentations will be held on Wednesday, May 23rd. We have revised our VJAS Handbook and the Appendices. They are available to download on our website (http://vjas.org/handbook.html). As always, please refer to our Handbook and Appendices for detailed information. In addition to reviewing those document, below are a number of important points we would like to highlight at this time.

• Please remember that Membership Application and Fees are due January 16. Please use the Membership Application (Appendix B). We are asking for complete information regarding the school and a flat fee of $50/school. If your school plans to participate, we strongly recommend that each school complete this process as soon as possible as the Head Sponsor will receive their school number to include when student papers are submitted.

• This year’s deadline for submitting papers with the appropriate student entry fees is no later than Wednesday, February 21, 2018. Please use the VJAS Paper Submission Forms (Appendix C).
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• Please pay attention to our revised project “categories” list in the Handbook (pages 14-16). For this coming year, we will actively disqualify papers that are not in the proper category. If in doubt, then please contact the VJAS Director or the VAS/VJAS Office for clarification and assistance.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions. We greatly appreciate all that you do and look forward to your participation!
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Sincerely yours,
Susan Booth, VJAS Director, susan.science@gmail.com, 757-897-3104
Se Jeong, VJAS Committee Chair, swj3af@virginia.edu
Carolyn Conway, VAS Associate Executive Officer, vasoffice@vacadsci.org, 804-864-1450