The Amarillo Advertising Federation is proud to sponsor six scholarship funds for the benefit of students who wish to go into the advertising field. These include two scholarships at Amarillo College, one at West Texas A&M University, and one with Texas Tech University. In addition to these, AAF was instrumental in developing the Charles Holeman and Monte and Marion Rosenwald Memorial Scholarships.

The Amarillo Advertising Federation also began a 10th District College Chapter Trust Fund with $5,000. Since that first donation, we have added $18,000 to this fund, bringing our total scholarship funds to $37,000. The Amarillo Ad Club has always been a leader in education in the District.

To obtain more information about how to qualify for a scholarship, contact O. Joe Russell at 353-8800.

AAF's National Student Advertising Competition — NSAC: College World Series of Advertising is the premier college advertising competition. It provides more than 3,000 college students with "real-world" experience by requiring a strategic advertising/marketing/media campaign for a corporate sponsor. Fifteen schools are selected to present their campaigns to a panel of industry executives at the American Advertising Conference.

Congratulations to the 2007 District Ten National Student Advertising Competition Winning Team, Texas Christian University!

Seventeen teams competed for the right to move on to national competition in the district competition in Fort Worth in April.

The winning team was Texas Christian University. The University of Texas at Austin was the first runner up and was selected as the wild card team at the national level. TCU and UT competed against 16 other teams in the national competition in Louisville in June.

Congratulations to ALL the teams in District 10 who competed in the 2007 NSAC competition.

Visit our 10th District web site to find out more ...

The Advertising Education Sponsor program, better known as AES, enables the District to field better equipped and better trained College Chapter teams to compete in the National Student Advertising Competition. Teams from the 10th District have won six national titles since the beginning of NSAC in 1973. Members of the Amarillo Advertising Federation were instrumental in developing the AES program.

Any individual or company can become an Advertising Education Sponsor by donating $75, $150, $300 or a lifetime donation of $1,500. This money is needed each year by the District, and funds are solicited annually to support their program. Donations are tax deductible.

The Speakers Bureau of the Amarillo Advertising Federation is a group on advertising and media professionals who make themselves available to speak to groups on advertising, public relations, and media related topics. Topics are varied and may include a variety of related subjects. Examples might be advertising history and evolution, media specifics ranging from print to electronic media (including Internet), use of graphics, campaign planning, media buying and determining the effectiveness of advertising.

The primary purpose of the Speakers Bureau is to educate the public on advertising related principles and issues, as well as, to present advertising as an exciting and rewarding profession and to attract and interest career-minded students.

AAF's college-chapter program has 260 affiliated chapters throughout the United States and abroad. The program includes 6,000 undergraduate student members and more than 250 faculty advisers.

AAF provides numerous programs to guide its college students through advertising curriculum and job placement. AAF's programs include the following:

• More than 1,000 internship opportunities
• Scholarships
• Career guides
• Industry mentors
• Networking with top agency and corporate recruiters.

The Amarillo Ad Club supports the college chapter program at West Texas State A&M University in nearby Canyon.