{"id":17139,"date":"2023-05-17T04:43:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T11:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/sweets-college-scholarship-program-announces-first-winner\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T04:43:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T11:43:36","slug":"sweets-college-scholarship-program-announces-first-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/sweets-college-scholarship-program-announces-first-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweets College Scholarship Program Announces First Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Annual Sweets scholarship helps students pursue their dream of a career in architecture, design, engineering or construction \u2013 2018 applications <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sweets.construction.com\/sweets-building-materials-college-scholarship\" target=\"_blank\">now open<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013 March 1, 2018 \u2013 Dodge Data &amp; Analytics\u2019 Sweets College Scholarship Program has selected Lais Weba, an interior design student at Virginia Tech, as the first winner of the $2,500 Sweets scholarship. Lais\u2019 winning submission was chosen from a large number of creative videos uploaded by students who took their viewers on a tour of their favorite campus buildings from a design perspective.<br \/>\u201cSweets has had a rich impact on the design and construction industry over the last 112 years, so offering assistance in the form of Sweets scholarships to cultivate the next generation of architects, designers and engineers is natural for us,\u201d said Mike Petrullo, Chief Executive Officer, Dodge Data &amp; Analytics. \u201cThe creativity and passion of these students is inspiring and will ultimately be a great asset to our industry. Thank you to all those who put in the effort to apply, and congratulations to Lais on her winning entry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With more than 350,000 registered users and 100,000 product listings, Sweets is the industry\u2019s focal point for connecting architects, designers and specifiers with building product manufacturers to bring project designs off the screen and into the real world. A focus on digital integration \u2013 including, BIM objects, plug-ins for AutoCAD\u00ae and Revit\u00ae, and the soon-to-launch Sweets Resource Hub, which will feature continuing education courses, webinars, tutorials, videos, and other digital content \u2013 make Sweets the indispensable resource for design and construction professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are now being accepted for the 2018 Sweets College Scholarship. To apply, students are asked to produce a short video, describing their favorite building on campus from a design perspective and, for bonus points, to name building products that stand out in the design and\/or mention Sweets by name. For more information, visit this <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sweets.construction.com\/sweets-building-materials-college-scholarship\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>. To stay up to date on the latest Sweets news, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/programs.construction.com\/PreferenceCenter\" target=\"_blank\">sign up<\/a> for the Sweets Newsletter or find us on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/sweets%E2%84%A2-building-products\/\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/SweetsProducts\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/SweetsProducts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Sweets:<\/strong> Sweets is the building product information resource for the entire project team. Architects, designers, engineers, contractors and owners rely on Sweets to research, compare, and select the best building products for their projects. Sweets users have access to a comprehensive store of building product information including CAD and BIM files, product specifications, warranties, catalogs, installation guides and more. Learn more at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweets.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.sweets.com<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.construction.com\/news\/dodge-data-analytics-sweets-college-scholarship-winner-mar-2018\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Sweets scholarship helps students pursue their dream of a career in architecture, design, engineering or construction \u2013 2018 applications &#8230; <a title=\"Sweets College Scholarship Program Announces First Winner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/sweets-college-scholarship-program-announces-first-winner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sweets College Scholarship Program Announces First Winner\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[1125,345,1126,1128],"class_list":["post-17139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dodge-data-and-analytics","tag-analytics","tag-business","tag-industry-news","tag-reports","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}