Students from universities with TAGA chapters are an important part of TAGA.  The chapters promote student research and the results of those projects are often presented during the student portion of the conference.

TAGA Student Chapters put a considerable amount of time and energy into producing a high-quality student publication for the conference that showcases their technical papers. The level of the design, content, and production of these publications is impressive, and testifies to the quality of the graphic communications programs at the universities.

The publications are judged by the TAGA Board of Directors and a Grand Prize Award (The Helmut Kipphan Cup) is bestowed at the conference. Awards are also given for individual scholarship.

The conference routinely draws several dozen of the brightest and most capable graphic communications students nearing graduation. The Annual Technical Conference is thus an excellent networking event for students looking for internships or for a full-time position. A bulletin board is available at the conference available for students to post their resumes, as well as for companies to post job openings.

Student Awards

  • Harvey Levenson Undergraduate Student Paper Award
  • Dusty Rhodes Graduate Student Paper Award
  • Helmut Kipphan Student Publication Competition
    • Student Publication Special Recognition Award – Best in Technical Writing
    • Student Publication Special Recognition Award – Best in Publication Design
    • Student Publication Special Recognition Award – Best in Production Quality
    • Student Publication Special Recognition Award – Best in Electronic Publication
    • Student Publication Special Recognition Award – Attendee’s Choice

Student Competition Deadlines

Harvey Levenson Undergraduate Student Paper Award

  • January 14, 2019 – Deadlines for the Harvey Levenson Undergraduate Student Paper Competition and the Dusty Rhodes Graduate Student Paper Competition are due on this date. Papers should be formatted in PDF and <5MB. All submissions should be sent to taga@printing.org. Papers have to be limited to a maximum of 20 pages including references and appendices.

Dusty Rhodes Graduate Student Paper Award

  • January 14, 2019 – Deadlines for the Harvey Levenson Undergraduate Student Paper Competition and the Dusty Rhodes Graduate Student Paper Competition are due on this date. Papers should be formatted in PDF and <5 MB. All submissions should be sent to taga@printing.org. Papers have to be limited to a maximum of 20 pages including references and appendices. If the paper intended for submission to the competition just exceeds the 20-page limit please contact the VP of Education.

Helmut Kipphan Student Publication Award

  • January 31, 2019 – Formatted PDF of journal (<10MB) must be submitted to taga@printing.org for consideration of Technical Writing scores
  • March 17, 2019 – Electronic publication, eBook, Interactive PDF or Web page
  • March 17, 2019 – submission of printed journals for final judging on the first day of the TAGA Annual Conference at the TAGA registration desk