In celebration of Court Reporting & Captioning Week being held Feb. 8 – 15, 2020, the NCRA Student/Teacher Committee is sponsoring a Walt Disney themed skills contest that will be offered to all students at varying dictation speeds. The tests (Literary and Q&A) consist of five minutes of dictation at a speed level commensurate with the current level of speed building each individual student is striving to achieve or has just successfully achieved. In order to be eligible to win, students must pass one of the tests with 96 percent accuracy. The faculty at each school will be responsible for dictating and grading the material which will be provided by the Student/Teacher Committee. *
How to win: All students who successfully pass a test are eligible for prizes. Winners will be drawn at random for first, second, and third place prizes among all the names of winners that are forwarded to Ellen Goff at NCRA Headquarters by March 2, 2020.
- Walt Disney Grand Prize (1st): NCRA’s RPR Study Guide ($125 value)
- Mickey Mouse Prize (2nd): Choice of a one-year NCRA Student Membership ($55 value) or one leg of the RPR Skills Test (72.50 value)
- Minnie Mouse Prize (3rd): $25 Starbucks Gift Card
All students who participate in the contest, even if they don’t pass a skills test, will have their names and schools published in the NCRA Student Newsletter and thejcr.com. NCRA wants to showcase the hard work that students and schools are doing to promote the court reporting and captioning professions.
Let’s have some fun and make sure your school’s name is showcased as well as your own! We’ve had an impressive number of students participating the past couple years. Let’s see if we can make that number even larger in 2020! Grab those Disney good luck charms and your magical Tinker Bell pixie dust and prepare to join the fun and camaraderie with your fellow students across the land as you endeavor to give this competition a whirl! Whose school will have the most participants? Will it be yours? We don’t care if you’re at 60 WPM or 225 WPM. This contest is for you!
As Walt Disney himself said, “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” Let’s pursue this dream of competing in this contest and enjoying the fine cast of Disney characters who will entertain you with these skills dictations. What do you have to lose?
The annual NCRA Conference & Expo this year is in Orlando, Fla, Aug. 6-9, at the Hyatt Regency Orlando. Mark your calendars. We’ve got a great line-up planned!
For more information, feel free to contact Debbie Kriegshauser at deborah0841@att.net or Ellen Goff at egoff@ncra.org.
*Full details and rules for the contest will be sent to your school’s faculty, so please make sure they know you would like to participate in case they fail to receive the material through the appropriate channels. We will make sure they receive it.
