Submission Instructions
Requirements:
- You must be 18 to 23 years old;
- You must be currently enrolled in, accepted for enrollment to, or a recent graduate of an engineering, math, or science accredited institution of higher learning.
Phase I - submission materials:
- Completed Nerd Girls Application form;
- Casting Video Submission Agreement, signed and dated by you;
- Resume of no more than 2 pages. Your resume should describe your educational background and your extracurricular activities;
- Unofficial transcript;
- A picture of you being yourself;
- A video of you being yourself (See "Photo and Video Guidelines," below)
- Download application documents
- Apply via email
- Deadline is July 5, 2010. Casting is now closed
Finalists will be invited to participate in Phase 2 which will include on-camera and in-person interviews with media producers. Check www.nerdgirls.com for updates.
Photo and Video Guidelines
- Show us your passion and diversity and help others better understand that Nerd Girls can't be put in a box. We want to see you in action to get to know your personality. Tell us about your hopes and dreams and how being a Nerd Girl plays into those.
- Give us your best work. Are you looking at the camera so we can see your eyes? How's the noise level where you are shooting? Can we hear you? How does your background look? You may edit or not.
- No nudity, foul language, or offensive gestures.
- We respect your privacy: Don't state your last name, the place you live or the university you attend; stay away from easily identified places.
- Respect other people's private property, intellectual property and branded images - don't feature signs, slogans, logos, branded products or license plates. Don't include any music on your video.
- No more than 2 minutes.
- We will accept these video formats: Quicktime (.mov) or MPEG4.
- Please do not post your application video anywhere else, including Google Videos, Facebook, MySpace. You may be disqualified for Nerd Girls if you do.
