Competition Winners—Alliance 2020-2021


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2020-2021 STC Alliance Competition Winners

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Best of Show winner's badge for 2021STC Alliance 2020-2021 competition badge: DistinguishedSTC Alliance 2020-2021 competition badge: ExcellenceSTC Alliance 2020-2021 competition badge: Merit

Congratulations to all the winners in the STC Alliance Competition!

Winners will receive their award letters and award certificates by mail from the STC Alliance Competition Committee.

Winners of the STC Alliance Competition are entitled to display the appropriate competition award badge to promote their award in resumes, press releases, company publications, and on websites, or copies of the winning piece. Download the STC Alliance Award Badges for the year.

Awards & Entry Statistics

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The first column shows the category. The second column shows the number of awards. The third column shows the percentage.

Category Awards Percentage
Total entries:
Total award winners:
Distinguished:
Excellence:
Merit:
54
34
3
13
18
 
63
6
24
33

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List of All STC Alliance Competition Winners

Winning Entries

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The first column shows the entry title, the second column shows the contributors to the entry, and the third column shows the name of their company.

Entry title Contributors Company
Best of Show
Best of Show candidates exhibit the ideal for their category. They are not judged against each other; they are judged solely against established standards for their respective documentation type. Of the Distinguished entries nominated for Best of Show, the entry that comes closest to the ideal for its category is the Best of Show.

Mitigating Attacks on Houses of Worship – Security Guide

Marc Parker, Partner Forces; Matt Pembleton, Nexight Group; Rob Foy, Nexight Group; Emma Plikerd, Partner Forces; Allison Reed, Partner Forces; Lauren Moeggenberg, Partner Forces; Margaret H. Coggins, Ph.D., M. H. Coggins & Associates, LLC; Mark Lowery, Lowery & Associates Security Consulting; Karen Saffran, Nexight Group; Jennifer Chaggaris, Partner Forces; Tasha Teelucksingh, Strategic Operations Solutions; Josha Jordan, CISA; L. Scott Parker, CISA

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) by Nexight Group, Silver Spring, MD
Distinguished Technical Communication
An entry that wins an award of Distinguished Technical Communication is clearly superior in all areas. The entry contains no major flaws and few, if any, minor flaws. It applies the principles of technical communication in an outstanding way, particularly the way that it anticipates and fulfills the needs of its audience.

EPRI Research Roadmaps: Large Scale Photovoltaic (PV) Plants and Large Scale Wind Plants

Jack Holmes, Nexight Group; Annie Best, Nexight Group; Ross Brindle, Nexight Group; Julianne Puckett, Nexight Group; Stephen Bolotin, Nexight Group; Joseph Stekli, Electric Power Research Institute; Michael Bolen, Electric Power Research Institute; Brandon Fitchett, Electric Power Research Institute

Nexight Group, Silver Spring, MD

Medidata Detect Knowledge Space

David Renn

Medidata Solutions, a Dassault Systèmes company, Glenmoore, PA

MEDS Reporter Knowledge Space

Jonathan Hodrick

Medidata Solutions, Jersey City, NJ
Excellence
An entry that wins an award of Excellence consistently meets high standards in all areas. The entry might contain a single major flaw or a few minor flaws. The entry demonstrates an exceptional understanding of technical communication principles.

Mitigating Attacks on Houses of Worship – Security Guide

Marc Parker, Partner Forces; Matt Pembleton, Nexight Group; Rob Foy, Nexight Group; Emma Plikerd, Partner Forces; Allison Reed, Partner Forces; Lauren Moeggenberg, Partner Forces; Margaret H. Coggins, Ph.D., M. H. Coggins & Associates, LLC; Mark Lowery, Lowery & Associates Security Consulting; Karen Saffran, Nexight Group; Jennifer Chaggaris, Partner Forces; Tasha Teelucksingh, Strategic Operations Solutions; Josha Jordan, CISA; L. Scott Parker, CISA

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) by Nexight Group, Silver Spring, MD

Case In Point: Advanced Financial Social Engineering

Living Security

Living Security, South Austin, TX

HP OMEN Frequency Wireless Headset Setup Instructions Poster

Nga Diep-Tran, Alexandra Jones, Valerie Krohn

HP, Inc., Kingwood, TX

HP Pavilion All-in-One Setup Instructions

Liane Pomfret, Cliff Ahlhardt, Vanessa Vara

HP, Inc., Kingwood, TX

HP PCs – How to Clean Your Computer

Emily Ryan, Alexandra Jones, Wes Dale

HP Inc., Kingwood, TX

MoDaC User Guide

Ruth S. Frost

Leidos Biomedical Research, Jessup MD

NYC Site Safety Training: 8-Hour Fall Prevention

Jenny Boniface, Brad Raca

American Safety Council, Orlando, FL

Rave Grants Manager Planning Knowledge Space

TJ Cardenas

Medidata, New York, NY

Rave Safety Gateway Knowledge Space

Esha Adhya

Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, New York, NY

Satellite Technology Fundamentals

Mike Nelson

KVH Industries, Bristol, RI

OMEN by HP Laptop Setup Instruction Booklet

Brenda Pereira, Laura Herold, Valerie Krohn

HP, Inc., Kingwood, TX

U.S. Department of Energy Free-Air CO2 Enrichment Experiments: FACE Results, Lessons, and Legacy

Richard Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Writing Team, U.S. Department of Energy Free-Air CO2 Enrichment Experiments:
FACE Results, Lessons, and Legacy
Biological and Environmental Research Information System, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

WebFOCUS 8207 Release Notes

Frances Gambino, Melinda Gjenasaj, Mary Casull, Russell Borner

ibi, a TIBCO company, New York, NY
Merit
An entry that wins a Merit award consistently meets high standards in most areas. The entry might contain a small number of major or minor flaws, but it still applies technical communication principles in a highly proficient manner.

Guide to the American Workforce System

Lucy McMillan, Harin Contractor, Anthony DAndrea, Rob Foy, Matt Pembleton

Nexight Group, Silver Spring, MD

Are you working from home too? Let's figure it out together.

Wes Dale

HP, Inc., Kingwood, TX

Did You Know: 2020 Texas Election Information

Yvonne Wade Sanchez, Grace Chimene, Aileen McMurrer

League of Women Voters of Texas, Katy, TX

FleXinspect T with SCOUT Technology Dimensional Inspection Setup Supplement

Jeremy Lankford

Bucher Emhart Glass, Horseheads, NY

HP ProBook 445 G7 Notebook PC Maintenance and Service Guide

David Vasek, Sheri Ahlhardt, Ken Rood

HP, Inc., Kingwood, TX

HP Travel USB-C Multi Port Hub Setup Instructions Poster

Nga Diep-Tran, Alexandra Jones, Valerie Krohn

HP, Inc., Kingwood, TX

ibi Open Visualizations Release 8207

Josephine Moscato, Arwin Castillo, Frances Gambino

ibi, a TIBCO company, New York, NY

KVH ASP Support Help

Mike Nelson

KVH Industries, Bristol, RI

LavaCon UX Overview

Jack Molisani, Ron Pereira, Char James-Tanny, Kevin Meglic

The LavaCon Conference, Long Beach, CA

League of Women Voters of Texas – Texas Conference for Women

Yvonne Wade Sanchez, Grace Chimene, Dorothy Marchand, Aileen McMurrer, Karen Kelley

League of Women Voters of Texas, Katy, TX

Medidata Patient Profiles Knowledge Space

David Renn, Sangeeta Augustine

Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, Glenmoore, PA

MEDS Data Viewer Knowledge Space

Jonathan Hodrick

Medidata Solutions, Jersey City, NJ

Micro:bit Innovations Student Workbook

Bruno Larochelle

Bruno Larochelle, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

OMEN Gaming Tower Setup Instructions

Laura Mallon, Liz Weiman, Valerie Krohn, Nathan Kiergaard

HP, Inc., Kingwood, TX

RBQM Configuration Manager Knowledge Space

David Renn

Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, Glenmoore, PA

TCS Style Guide

David Baron, Esha Adhya

Medidata, New York, NY

Genomic Science TEKNOS

Isabelle Deng, Karen Song, Shan Lateef, Joanna Cheng, Grace Huang, Junho Lee, Bryant Park

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria VA

www.BarCan.ca

Mellissa Ruryk

TEK-Right Consulting Ltd., Vernon, BC, Canada
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