Registration Opens for Miami Ad School Scholarship Competition

Registration is now open for scholarship competition to the Miami Ad School, the most awarded advertising school in the world and according to Gunn’s Report, “the best advertising schools in the world”.

This call for registration is a follow up to the earlier announcement of the offer of a full tuition scholarship and 10 half tuition scholarships to Nigerians by Miami Ad School on the appointment of a representative in Nigeria in the name of Mr. Nnamdi Ndu, who is the Managing Director of Chini Productions and also the Cannes Lions Representative in Nigeria. The scholarships are for study at any of the Miami Ad School full time campuses in Miami, Madrid, Minneapolis and Hamburg.

Those eligible to apply for the scholarship are young advertising creatives who want to improve their skills, talented advertising professionals who want to move from other departments to the creative department as well as graduates of tertiary institutions in any discipline who believe they have the talent and passion to succeed in the creative communication industry.

Registrations are to be made online at http://www.chinionline.com/programmes.html

Approved registrants, will be required to pay a participation fee of N5, 000. The test questions will be posted on the website and forwarded to the email addresses of participants by 12:01am of Monday, February 28, 2011. Participants will be invited in person for interview on March 5, 2011. The competition will be judged by the creative jury of the Nigeria Young Lions Competition, whose president is Mr. Colin Morris, the executive creative director of LTC/JWT and winners will be announced at the Awards Night on March 12 at the Lagos Sheraton Hotel along with the winners of Roger Hatchuel Competition, Young Lions Competition and Young Clients Competition. Registration will close on February 24, 2011.

Participants who do not win any of the scholarships, but display sufficient talent to work in the creative communication industry will be counseled on how to pursue the admission on their own if they have the means or how to realize their dreams locally.