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Friday, April 30 @ 05:26:05 PDT by howard (157 reads) | 
American Fire Sprinkler Association’s (AFSA)
Virginia Chapter Announces the Winners of the 2009-2010 Essay Contest
Ron Reynolds
AFSA Virginia Chapter Essay Chairman
Each year, the AFSA Virginia Chapter awards scholarships to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place essay writers in our statewide contest. First place receives $1,500, second place $750, and third place $500. The Virginia Chapter also offers three Honorable Mention prizes of $100 each.
Only open to high school seniors, the purpose of the contest is to help educate people about fire sprinklers and how they save lives and property, and to help students continue their education. The essays must be from 700 to 1000 words, and include a bibliography. Essays are judged on accuracy, content, punctuation, and with an emphasis on creativity. Judges come from Chapter members in the sprinkler industry, fire and building code officials, and others.
Contestants in the contest this year were asked to “write a creative, interesting and convincing essay on the history of automatic sprinklers.” We received over 120 entries and as usual, they were very well written. The high quality of the essays makes it very difficult for the judges to pick the contest winners. After much deliberation using the skills of 12 different judges, the winners were picked, and here they are:
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First Place
$1500
Christina Lee
Potomac Falls HS
Sterling, VA.
Christina wrote an essay from the prospective of a fire sprinkler, protecting a residence that was very interesting and creatively done.
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Second Place
$750
Leah Coates
Washington and Lee HS
Colonial Beach, VA.
Leah’s essay was written about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, and what the might have happened had sprinklers been present.
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Third Place
$500
Caitlin Tignor
Essex HS
White Stone, VA.
Caitlin’s essay described the contribution of Philip Pratt, the first person to patent an automatic sprinkler, at an imaginary gathering of people who had survived fires because of automatic sprinklers.
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Christina Lee’s essay will be entered in a contest for an additional $1000 from the AFSA National organization.
$100 Honorable Mentions go to:
- Samuel Roderick of Broadway High School, in Broadway, VA.
- Regan Mukai, home-schooled, from Alexandria, VA.
- Megan Wiles, of Courtland High School, from Spotsylvania, VA.
For the first time ever, AFSA National will have a “2nd Chance” contest open to all graduating seniors where all can enter a contest and have a chance to win $1000. Go to http://www.afsascholarship.org/ for more details. This contest is open to all of those who entered the contest as well as those who did not. There is no requirement to write an essay for the 2nd Chance contest.
AFSA-Virginia thanks the many high school seniors who entered the contest this year for sending in their essays. It is always very tough to pick the best out of so many very good essays.
The Virginia Chapter congratulates all participants. Although not everyone can win a monetary prize, we believe that everyone who entered can come away a winner in the valuable knowledge they gain of what automatic fire sprinklers can do to save lives and property.
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Contests: 2009 Golf Touney Results
Tuesday, September 22 @ 03:42:01 PDT by howard (200 reads) | ted to report to you on the success of the 2009 AFSA Virginia Golf Tournament
While we did not fill all the slots we can very close to doing so and we were able to give $20,000.00 to the Central Virginia Burn Camp and $20,000.00 to the Old Dominion Professional fire Fighters/MCV-VCU Burn Center.
I have attached two pictures of the awards as you may want to share with them your employees.
We will have a write up with these pictures for the AFSA Sprinkler AGE magazine in the near future
I would like to thank all of our members both Contractor and Vendors for their generosity.
We had a great day, no 100 degree heat, no hurricane and we dodged the rain!!!
We hope everyone had a great time!!!
The AFSA Golf Committee and volunteers did a great job and if you get a change please thank them.
Special thanks needs to go to VSC, Eagle Fire, East Coast Fire and Fire Pro for working together on the Golf committee to make this a successful event.
Let’s do it again in 2010.
George Wagner
George Wagner
Executive Director
American Fire Sprinkler Association
Virginia Chapter
4558 Sandy Valley Road
Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111
Home--804-779-3921
Cell--804-514-3154
wagnerg@mindspring.com
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Contests: AFSA VA Chapter Announces 2008-2009 Essay Contest winners
Saturday, May 23 @ 10:35:12 PDT by howard (398 reads) | Each year, the AFSA Virginia Chapter awards scholarships to the top three winners in our statewide essay contest. First place receives $1500, second place $750, and third place $500. Only open to high school seniors, the Virginia Chapter also offers three Honorable Mention prizes of $100 each. The purpose of the contest is to help educate people about fire sprinklers and how they save lives and property, and to help students continue their education. The essays must be from 700 to 1000 words, and include a bibliography. Essays are judged on accuracy, content, punctuation, and with an emphasis on creativity. Judges come from Chapter members in the sprinkler industry, fire and building code officials, and others. This year scores were combined from 19 different judges.
This years’ topic was “Why Residential Automatic Fire Sprinklers Should Be Installed in Every New Home.” The target audience was the Construction Industry, Politicians, and the General Public. The topic is particularly relevant this year as Virginia has the opportunity to adopt the new 2009 International Residential Code which mandates residential sprinklers in one and two family homes. The mandatory inclusion of these life protecting safety systems is being opposed by some groups in many states, including Virginia.
We received 135 entries, and the majority of them were very well done. As usual, it was extremely difficult to pick the winners, but winners were picked, and they are as follows:
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Contests: AFSA's 16th Annual National Apprentice Competition Announced
Monday, February 16 @ 02:43:23 PST by howard (547 reads) |  Finalists to Compete in San Diego, October 14-18
DALLAS - 2/11/2009 - The American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA) will host its 16th Annual National Apprentice Competition, October 16, 2009 in San Diego. Seven of America's finest fire sprinkler fitter apprentices will face off in an intense, one-day, head-to-head skills contest in the national competition held at AFSA's 28th Annual Convention and Exhibition, October 14-18 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego.
The national competition finals consists of two parts: a three-hour written examination and a practical examination in which the apprentice must cut, thread and install a steel and plastic piping system with sprinklers and perform a pressure test. Participants will be judged on their accuracy, craftsmanship and safety.
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Contests: AFSA – Virginia Chapter Essay Contest 2007-08 Winners
Wednesday, May 28 @ 16:20:29 PDT by howard (1249 reads) | By Ron Reynolds, Virginia Chapter Essay Chairman
The AFSA- Virginia Chapter has announced the winners to their essay contest. Winners are graded on accuracy of sprinkler data, how it is written and organized, and how it is presented in an interesting and creative manner.
There were 158 entries this year. Most essays are written by the best and brightest students in Virginia, making it extremely hard to pick three top winners. This year was particularly difficult. We try to focus on creativity, to make it challenging for those that enter.
We had 15 judges this year. All were given equal weight in judging, and ranged from owners of sprinkler companies and employees, to secretaries, teachers, and fire and building officials.
This years’ topic was “Residential Automatic Fire Sprinklers.” The topic of residential automatic fire sprinklers has been “in the news” on a national level. At the International Code Council’s 2007 meeting in Rochester, automatic residential fire sprinklers nearly missed becoming a mandatory requirement in new residential buildings. This life saving system could help prevent many of the thousands of lives lost every year to fire and smoke, not to mention the millions of dollars in property damage. A more worthy subject could not be found.
The winners of the Virginia Chapter’s contest were:
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Contests: AFSA’s 15 Annual National Apprentice Competition
Friday, February 01 @ 14:52:43 PST by howard (1885 reads) | With Increased Prize Monies, Seven Finalists Compete for Capital in Our Nation’s Capitol
DALLAS – The American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA) will host its 15th Annual National Apprentice Competition, Oct. 17, 2008 in Washington, D.C. Seven of America’s finest fire sprinkler fitter apprentices will face off in an intense, one-day head-to-head skills contest in the national competition held at AFSA’s 27th Annual Convention and Exhibition, October 15-19, 2008 at the Marriott Wardman Park.
Newly increased cash prizes will be awarded: $5,000 for first place, $3,000 for second place, $2,000 for third place, and $1,000 fourth-seventh place. In addition, the first place winner will receive an expense-paid trip to Honolulu to compete at the Associated Builders & Contractors’ (ABC) Craft Championship, February 25 - March 1, 2009.
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Contests: AFSA Virginia Announces the 2007 - 2008 Eassy Contest
Monday, September 24 @ 03:13:30 PDT by howard (3560 reads) | The Virginia Chapter of the American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA) is sponsoring a scholarship contest for high school seniors. Students could receive up to $2000 in national tuition assistance, and additional Virginia prizes of $1500 for lst place, $750 for 2nd place, and $500 for 3rd place
The requirement is to write a 700 to 1000 word essay on the topic:
Residential automatic fire sprinklers.
The deadline to postmark entries is March 1, 2008.
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Contests: Winners of The 2007 Essay Contest Announced
Monday, June 25 @ 04:04:16 PDT by howard (1220 reads) | American Fire Sprinkler Association’s
Virginia Chapter Announces the Winners of the 2007 Essay Contest
Each year, the AFSA Virginia Chapter awards scholarships to the top three winners in our statewide essay contest. The purpose of the contest is to help educate people about fire sprinklers and how they save lives and property, and to help students continue their education. It is only open to high school seniors. The essay must be from 700 to 1000 words, and include a bibliography. Essays are judged on accuracy, content, punctuation, and creativity. The main focus was on being creative. This years’ topic was to “Describe the History and Impact of Automatic Fire Sprinklers.” We received 117 entries, and the majority of them were excellent.
The AFSA Virginia Chapter essay winners are:
- First Place, $1500 goes to Christina Badami, of C. D. Hylton High School, in Woodbridge
- Second Place, $750 goes to Michaela Halsey, of Covington High School, in Covington
- Third Place, $500 goes to Kayli Bates, of J.J. Kelly High School, in Wise
To see photos of the winners and read more about the essays or even read the essays themselves, please follow this link.
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Contests: 14th Annual Burn Survivors Golf Tournament
Friday, June 15 @ 05:45:38 PDT by howard (935 reads) | Hunting Hawk Golf Club - 15201 Ashland Road, Glen Allen, VA 23059 - (804) 749-1900
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| Meeting Dates for 2010 |
- Sep 14
- Sep 15 — Golf Tourney
- Nov 9
Watch for the details for each meeting as the meeting time approaches.
Meeting information will be posted in the center column of this page and will be available for download as it becomes available.
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We received a letter of thanks this week for the Scholarship awarded to Sam Osterhout. He sent us a picture and a very heart-felt "Thanks". We wish Sam and all of the other winners the best in their journey through higher education. 