This new competition will be open online. All students submitting to this event must also be competing in person on the day of IMC3. Materials will be sent to chaperone representatives upon registration submission.

Assignment: Designers must submit a branding guide that shows both a black and white as well as full color personal logo complete with a slogan. The branding guide will require approved colors, fonts, and correct and incorrect logo use examples. This may be designed using their choice of software that allows them to create an original logo. 

Provided Materials: Branding guide book examples. A dropbox link to submit final work. 

Judging Criteria: Designs will be judged on creativity, contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. Student must be participating in an onsite IMC3 competition. Work must be received by the deadline and in the correct format in a PDF Brand book. 

Deadline: All Submissions are due by the Friday Before the Competition to be considered for awards. 

Objective: Develop and submit two commercial-quality photographs using Coca-Cola bottles. 

Assignment: Participants will have one-hour to photograph anywhere on campus for desired lighting and must submit two edited photos.  

Provided Materials: Participants competing in-person will be provided with access to a computer lab, a digital camera, editing software (iPhoto, Lightroom, or Photoshop), and a UWA student guide. Twenty Coca-Cola bottles will be provided for photographers.

Judging Criteria: Submitted photos will be judged on their creativity, commercial quality, and overall representation.

Objective: Design a Homecoming flyer for UWA’s Homecoming week. 

Assignment: Using preferred available computer software, participants will design an 11×17 Poster geared toward spreading the news about homecoming events. You must include the what, where, when, title of event, and extra small things for your platform audience.  

Provided Materials: Access to computer lab, Adobe software (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Canva), assets for the design (photographs and credit titles), and guidance from UWA faculty and students

Judging Criteria: Designs will be judged on creativity, contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity.

Objective: Write and verbally present a sales pitch for a product to a panel of judges.

Assignment: Participants must research, present, and discuss the product’s impact and usage to the live panel of judges. Participants will write and develop a sales pitch presentation that will last no more than two minutes. Once provided, the product may be used as a visual aid representation.  

Provided Materials: A sample product and research about the use and impact of that product. 

Judging Criteria: Sales presentations will be judged on persuasion, creativity, and presentation skills.

Objective: Utilize social media skills, creativity, and marketing principles to generate a social media video for a provided assignment.

Assignment: Participants will pick a social media trend that promotes West Alabama’s IMC and CAE programs. Participants must use the following mention tags: @uwa.imc, @imc3.me, @univwestalabama, #IMC3, #IMCChoseMe, #CAE. Participants must demonstrate buzz, creativity, and knowledge of social media marketing principles in the creation of a TikTok or Instagram post that fits the assignment.

Provided Materials: A brief overview of the assignment, a faculty guide, a classroom, and free IMC Wi-Fi. Participants will need to bring a personal phone or tablet with access to TikTok or Instagram to complete the assignment. 

Judging Criteria: Posts will be judged on creativity, social media marketing principles, adherence to assignment guidelines, accuracy, buzz-worthy content, and overall fit for the assigned target audience.

Objective: Utilize statistics and background information of an active student-athlete in order to conduct a meaningful on-camera interview with the athlete. 

Assignment: Participants will be provided with statistics and background for a UWA student-athlete during registration check-in. Participants should study the information to develop a list of meaningful and related questions to ask the student-athlete. Participants will be given two to three minutes to interview the student-athlete. The interview will follow the format of a sideline reporter. 

Provided Materials: Student-athlete statistics and background information, videographer, video equipment with microphone, student-athlete subject, and UWA student guide

Judging Criteria: Reporters will be judged on quality of questions, flexibility, the flow and steer of their conversation, on-camera presence, interview relevance, and conversational quality.

Objective: Utilize personal style and design skills to plan a design assigned on the day of the competition. 

Assignment: Participants will be provided with a 2D layout of a room or dwelling and be tasked with designing a functional space.

Provided Materials: Blueprint of space to be measured and designed in hard copy form. Students will also create a mood board with examples of furniture and design elements chosen for the space they are given. Computers will be available to create mood boards. 

Judging Criteria: Designers will be judged on design concepts, style use, and use of space. 

Objective: Utilize research and strong writing skills to create a one-page press release about UWA Homecoming. 

Assignment: Participants will create a press release promoting UWA Homecoming and its events that follow. 

Judging Criteria: Writers will be evaluated on grammar, punctuation, best practices of writing a press release, and research skills.

Students will showcase their vocal talent by performing a two-minute solo for Dr. Christopher Shelt, UWA Professor of Vocal Music and Competition Adjudicator. Songs may be sung either in acapella or with a backing track provided by the student on a digital device that can connect to Bluetooth or the Internet. Students will select music upon registration. Any musical style is welcomed as long as it is appropriate and without profanity or crude language. Senior competitors who place will be automatically considered for UWA Choir Scholarships in addition to the IMC3 scholarship.

Calling all creatives! Submit your best artwork! Currently enrolled high-school students are invited to submit a work of art in the 2024 IMC3 Juried Art Competition. All artwork must be original and completed during the previous two years. The competition is open to all media, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional, except for photography. Work must be hand-delivered and picked up on the day of the competition. Artwork must be able to fit through a single standard doorway. 

Actors! Actors! Actors! Come perform at UWA Theatre! That’s right, bring your monologues and win a prize! Currently enrolled high school students are invited to perform in the University of West Alabama IMC3 Fall 2024 Juried Monologue Competition. Your entire audition may not exceed 90 seconds. You should slate at the top of your audition. This should include: your name, title of play, and playwright of your monologue(s).

You may present:

• One monologue -OR-
• Two contrasting monologues

Pro tip: We want to see the authentic you. Preferably, select works for an age-appropriate character that does not require an accent or dialect. Choose material that allows you to connect emotionally. Make bold choices.