AAPA 2014 Communications Competition Winners Announced

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On June 6, AAPA announced that the 21 seaports that entered a combined 106 winning entries into the 2014 AAPA Communications Awards Program will be recognized at a November 12 awards luncheon in conjunction with AAPA’s 103rd Annual Convention and Expo in Houston.

Forty Washington, D.C.-area public relations practitioners cumulatively spent about 160 hours over a period of two-and-a-half weeks judging the 15 classifications of entries, ranging from advertisements and periodicals to videos and websites. Based on the number of points awarded each entry by the judges, 34 submissions from 11 ports earned an Award of Excellence, while 36 submissions from 14 ports scored an Award of Distinction, and 36 submissions from 15 ports received an Award of Merit.

To recognize superior overall performance in the competition, three ports will receive trophies at AAPA’s annual convention awards luncheon in Houston. The top-performing port, based on the cumulative judges’ scores for all of its winning entries, will receive AAPA’s prestigious "traveling" Dan Maynard Communications Award for Overall Excellence for one year, together with an engraved wood-and-brass plaque to keep. The second-place winner will receive AAPA’s Overall Award of Distinction trophy, while the third-place finisher will receive AAPA’s Overall Award of Merit trophy.

Click here to see all of the winning entries in the 2014 AAPA Communications Awards Program.