{"id":11523,"date":"2020-12-09T20:53:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T20:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/rasc24\/?page_id=11523"},"modified":"2024-03-15T17:52:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:52:18","slug":"graduate-three-minute-thesis-competition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/rasc24\/graduate-three-minute-thesis-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Three Minute Thesis Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2024 Graduate 3-Minute Thesis Competition<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

The 3MT competition is a presentation that lasts literally 3 minutes and highlights a student\u2019s thesis, dissertation, business plan, or scholarly project. It was started at the University of Queensland in Australia in 2008 and has now spread to more than 350 universities across the world. The purpose of the presentation style is to train students to condense and highlight their scholarly work to an educated, but diverse audience in preparation for job interviews, business interactions, and conversations with colleagues both inside and outside of their discipline.<\/p>\n

3MT\u00ae 2024 Award Winners<\/h4>\n

First Place: $500 Cash and $500 Spring Tuition Award
Second Place: $250 Cash and $250 Spring Tuition Award
People’s Choice: $250 Cash and $250 Spring Tuition Award<\/p>\n

Cash awards provided by the Graduate Student Association<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rebecca Childs<\/strong><\/h6>\n
An Equity-Minded Approach to Improving Black Male Student Persistence<\/a><\/h6>\n
Educational Leadership Ed.D.<\/h6>\n

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Aimee Kling<\/h6>\n
Community Literacy: A Service, a Skill, and a Democratic Imperative<\/a><\/h6>\n
English M.A.<\/h6>\n

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Gillian Scruggs<\/h6>\n
Age Differences in Emergent Bilingual Sibling Dyads: Predicting Spanic-English Vocabulary Outcomes<\/a><\/h6>\n
Communication Sciences and Disorders M.S.<\/h6>\n

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3MT Competitors<\/th>\nProgram<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Savannah Dove<\/td>\nPsychology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
D’Ayana Munley<\/td>\nEducation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gillian Scruggs<\/td>\nCommunication Sciences & Disorders<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Simon<\/td>\nBiology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aimee Kling<\/td>\nEnglish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christian Beamguard<\/td>\nHigher Education Student Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carla Burdette<\/td>\nPsychology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zion Moore<\/td>\nHigher Education Student Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nina Glawe<\/td>\nClinical Psychology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hunter Chase Bishop<\/td>\nChemistry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kayler DeBrew<\/td>\nExperiential and Outdoor Education<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rebecca Childs<\/td>\nEducational Leadership<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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3MT Judges<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Robert Crowe<\/p>\n

Dr. Dustin Evatt<\/p>\n

Dr. Candy Noltensmeyer<\/p>\n

Dr. Charmion Rush<\/p>\n

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