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Article By: Jennifer Long
Published: Dec 18, 2008

Last week, judging concluded for the annual SCADDY Awards competition, which honors student achievement in the advertising arts and related creative disciplines. The panel of five prominent advertising professionals included B.A. Albert, Bob Conquest, Bill Mayer, Bill Shirk and Bob Wages.

The numbers are impressive: this year garnered 1,800 entries from SCAD-Atlanta, SCAD-Savannah and SCAD-eLearning. The competition's 25 categories cover everything from logos to copywriting. Three of the judges reviewed 500 "select" entries, and ultimately, 140 finalists were selected: the top 8 percent of all entries.

At the awards ceremony at the Trustees Theater Saturday, Jan. 24, SCAD will announce which students receive the 50 Silver awards, 30 Gold awards, and the highest honor: Best of Show. Student submissions also are displayed at the SCADDY Awards exhibition Jan. 9-25 at the Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St.

Following are the 2009 student finalists: Michael Ackerman, Mike Albuquerque, Jaime Anderson, Neiha Arora, Amit Bapat, Philipp Bichsel, Rebecca Sue Boensch, Nick Brower, Ryan Brown, Ryn Bruce, Christian Cartwright, Bonnie N. Class, Julie Comforti, Daniel Comite, Samuel Wolfe Connelly, Sean Ryan Cooley, Rebecca Cullers, Andrew Dicharry, Dave D'Incau Jr., Fabien Dodard, Sarah Dolan, Ferhan Faidzan, Alex Farkas-Worthy, Rylan Francis, Silvina Guerreiro, Phil Guthrie, Rebecca Hemstad, Lauren Henderson, Josue Heredia, Candice Hiler, Addison Hill, Katie Hollowman, Courtney Hurst, Ashwin Inamdar, Siddarth John, Lindsay Johnson, Sheena Kocher, Marta Kohn, Katrian Kopeloff, Maya Krauss, An Le, Hiu-Shin Lee, Colin Levy, Jason Li, Yu-Hsiang Liu, Nathan Lombardi, Michael Luckhardt, Alanna Marshall, J. Andrew Milauckas, Rodrigo Mitma, Ximena Molina, Mark J. Montgomery, Alyssa Morley, Rohan Narang, John Nguyen, Tran Nguyen, Ariana Nicolay, Joel T. Nilsen, Addie Oscher, Jon Owings, Anwar Pack, Abhinay Patil, Gabrielle Pauling, Ashlee Perkins, Nikhil Phadke, Jennifer Piscopo, Michelle Poler, Michelle Repici, Sarah Riddle, Lauren Rolwing, Miguel Salvador, Marisa Sunset Sealy, Lisa Seegers, Karan Sharma, Angie Smith, Roque Smith-Nonini, Cassandra Ann Smolcic, Alexander Micah Snow, Nikk Sriviboone, Billy Steele, Mandy Stinson, Britteny Terry, Sean Toenniges, Lieze Truter, Callie Vinson, Heather Williamee, Lucas Williams, Alyssa Wilson, Phillip White, Micah Woods, Desmond Young, and Ken Ziegler.

SCADDY Award-winning work goes on to be entered into the ADDY® Awards, the advertising industry's awards competition for professionals, and can advance from local to regional and national-level competitions. Last year's SCADDY winners went on to earn Silver, Gold, and Best-Of-Show ADDY Awards at the local level, then Silver and Gold ADDY Awards at the regional and national levels.