Winner Archives
Winner Archives
Here you will find the Multimodal Writing Contest winners for each year the contest was held. Winners are organized by year and academic discipline. We invite professors of all areas of study to introduce their classes to this website, as there are always winners from every vein of academia.
2024 Winners
2023 Winners
2023 Multimodal Contest Winners
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School of Health Sciences
🏆Winner: Alexander Japit 24’ (Physical Therapy)
This submission, titled Medical Qigong and Polyvagal Theory, is by Alexander Japit, a graduate student at Elon University studying Physical Therapy. This video was produced for anyone interested in Medical Qigong or mind-body exercises, but could be particularly beneficial for physical therapy students or Qigong Practitioners. The project aims to inform and educate about Medical Qigong and its effects on the Vagus nerve, demonstrating its importance as a practice. Medical Qigong is not heavily discussed in healthcare, but mind-body practices have a lot of potential, making it imperative to teach about them.
🏆Winner: Emily Morenz 23’ (student physical therapist)
“Therapeutic Plasma Exchange” created by Emily Morenz aims to educate and inform hospital-based physical therapists on the basics of therapeutic plasma exchange. In addition, the infographic was created to help physical therapists improve patient care, and continuously be on the lookout for adverse reactions to the treatment. Furthermore, it should deepen the patient’s understanding and encourage them to go forward with treatment. In terms of design, Morenz wanted to increase readability by offering simple explanations rather than complex ones to help benefit her intended audiences, patients, and physical therapists.
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School of Law
🏆Winner: Morgan Earp 22’ (Law)
As a project created to educate about the ins and outs of juvenile law, this professional website was created by Morgan Earp out of Elon Law. Earp explores every aspect of the subject—from petitions to trials—to fully elaborate on the process to serve as an educational tool specifically designed for parents and the public. Various outside sources included also allows the site’s visitors a more in-depth perspective on the matter.
🏆Winner: Constantina Palamaris 23’ Law
“Protecting Children From Evolving Online Threats”
Creator declined to grant public access.
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School of Communications
🏆Winner: Oliva Archer 23’ (iMedia)
Olivia Archer, Elon grad ’22 and iMedia ’23, was this year’s grand prize winner. The submission, “If You Give a Pig a Pancake,” features child-like animations of the story. The creator used Adobe Illustrator to create this playful, two-dimensional piece to make this lighthearted work engage younger children. Archer aims to ultimately become a storyteller, which was successfully achieved through this piece.
🏆Winner: Caroline DiFrango 23’ (Communication Design & Creative Writing)
“Multitudes”
Creator declined to grant public access.
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School of Arts & Sciences
🏆Winner: Jay Blue 23’ (Finance & Financial Management Services)
“The Necessity of Violence in the Fight for Equality” is a timeline looking to inform its audience of key events in America’s history, highlighting those that use violence as a tool to force change and speak out against the unequal treatment of African Americans.
🏆Winner: Greg Seegaly 24’ (Creative Writing) , Kai M 24’ (Music Production ), Kai Whiteside 25’ (English Language and Literature)
This powerful video created by a group of undergraduate students calls attention to the lack of mental health support in our society. It functions to help others struggling with isolation, as well as calling out the ignorance and lack of support from other members of society. While the video is meant for groups of all backgrounds, the primary target for this video is the group of people suffering from the emotions depicted throughout the piece. The intent of this piece is to inspire change, inform those who lack education in suicidal ideation, and confront the lack of care and prioritization regarding this topic in modern society. Ultimately, the hope is to create a meaningful connection with those struggling with mental health issues and to help create more awareness for this same group of people.
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School of Business
🏆Winner: Joseph Byrd 23’ ( Business Administration, Marketing and Finance), Zillion Moe 23’ (Finance and Business Administration), and Madison McCart (Marketing & Finance)
The intention of this presentation is to educate people on financial literacy given a specific family’s monetary situation. By using real-world examples and expenses, people can learn how to best manage their income in all aspects of life, including insurance policies, taxes, and investment opportunities. This group tied for first place in their class for the financial case competition. Their information helped bring this fictional family into a healthy financial position. Financial freedom can seem very overwhelming, but this team brought financial literacy into a simple presentation format.
🏆Winner: Lucy Verdone ‘23 (Marketing), Claudia Flint ‘23 (Business Administration), Gianna Rella ‘23 (Marketing & Finance)
Lucy Verdone, Claudia Flint, and Gianna Rella created this business idea as an example of the methodology used to integrate a new business into an already competitive industry. They created their work as a teaching tool for new business development students. When presented in a global marketing class, this specific project was used as a pitch with the intent of entertaining and inspiring the audience with the creativity of both the product and the company.
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School of Education
🏆Winner: Julia Strouse ‘24 (Middle Grades Education & Policy Studies)
Julia Strouse created this presentation as a tool to inform and persuade policymakers to make changes in terms of equity and access to disability resources for students in the United States. Multiple nodes of communication and appealing visuals were deliberately used to enhance the efficacy of the presentation. The presentation is aimed at policymakers, specifically those who work for the Department of Education, and could influence decisions made within state and local education systems.
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2022 Winners
2022 Multimodal Contest Winners:
We paused the competition in 2021 due to COVID-19. 2022 was our welcome back year for the Multimodal Contest, with eight schools and winners for this year. The Grand Prize Winner for this year comes from the School of Communications. The winning group consisted of: Noah Jordan, Michael Faccibene, Jess Kalinowski. Congratulations to them, and congratulations to all of the winners from this year. Let’s take a look at the rest!
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School of Arts and Sciences:
🏆 Winner: Emily Holland ‘22 (Strategic Communications)
Emily Holland’s infographic is titled “Peer Review Activities in Classrooms: Current Difficulties and Solutions.” This winning piece aims to aid individuals interested in peer editing to offer potential problems with the standard peer review process and inform them of possible solutions. Individuals involved with education such as teachers, college students in educational programs, parents or professors are the intended audience for this type of work.
Runner-up Kayla created a podcast entitled, “Nansemond River High School Vs. The Lion King: Copyright Claims.” ___________________________________________________________________________________________
School of Communications:
🏆 Winners: Noah Jordan ‘23 (Media Analytics), Michael Faccibene ‘22 (Strategic Communications, Media Analytics & Business) & Jess Kalinowski ‘22 (Strategic Communications & Media Analytics)
This group’s winning piece, “Reddit as a Marketing Tool,” was a project created for small business owners who are looking to grow their business in both popularity and sales. The purpose was to inform the audience about the untapped potential of Reddit as a marketing tool. The intention for the audience is to use the text as a guide for future company success in that field. This project uses visually appealing text and images that maintain a professional appearance to ensure the audience understands the message.
See the full project here.
Runner-up Ana created a motion design called, “Make your Bed.” ___________________________________________________________________________________________
School of Education:
🏆 Winner: Jack Corby ‘22 (Policy Studies)
Jack made an advocacy brief titled, “The Benefits of Place-Based Education (PBE) and the Need For More Research.” The project is for the superintendents of Washington DC, Houston, TX, and the Oakland, CA school districts. The brief is advocating for Place Based Education in those three districts, intended to inform those about PBE and highlight its needs. It uses clear, concise language, in depth background research and an emphasis on its message.
Runner-up Lila created an Advocacy Brief/Infographic called, “Supporting Breastfeeding in the Workplace.” ___________________________________________________________________________________________
School of Health and Sciences:
🏆 Winner: Jennifer Gehrin ‘17 (Exercise Science)
Jennifer made an infographic entitled, “Central Sensitization Patient Handout.” The infographic’s purpose is to provide education to patients about their pain that can be used during treatment to help physical therapists explain chronic pain in patient centered language. It can also be used as a tool to inform physical therapists that explain a patient’s diagnosis.
Runner-ups Brendal Vargo, Shannon Franklin & Nathan Tometich created their poster called, “Poor Concurrent Validity of Wearable Sensors for Joint Angle Measurement During Gait.” ___________________________________________________________________________________________
School of Law:
🏆 Winner: Cassandra Saxton (Law)
Cassandra won for her drawing, “A Word in 420.” The piece is for practicing law students, and is supposed to specify a complex emotion. This artwork represents the guilt and pressure that black law students are under, which is expressed visually, also using descriptive words.
Runner-up Destinee Astheimer created a video presentation titled, “Negotiating Service Agreements.” ___________________________________________________________________________________________
CORE:
🏆 Group Winners: Julianna Fazzino 25’ (Biochemistry), Abby Hollenbeck, Emma Brunell, Ben Kaplan & Alyssa Wise ‘25 (Acting & Arts Administration)
The winning group’s magazine is titled “The Crisis of Somalia: The Terror of Al-Shabab.” This booklet targets college students to educate them on this particular crisis in Somalia. It is also a useful tool for local organizations and research groups that explore this issue and other conflicts in similar declining countries.
See the full project here. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Campus Involvement:
🏆 Winner: Kayla Shaw ‘22 (Strategic Communications & Communication Design)
Kayla created Table Tents titled “Blue Ribbon Diner Seasonal Table Tents.” These table tents are designed to persuade people to try out one of Blue Ribbon Diner’s specialty seasonal milkshakes. The table tents strive to amplify in-store visitation by both new and loyal customers and frequent revisitation to exponentially increase revenue.
Runner-up MJ Segal created a Legal Brief titled, “Public Housing Eviction Due to Death of Guardian Brief.” ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Internship:
🏆 Winner: Lily Kays ‘23 (Political Science)
Lily’s podcast was called “Queer and Divine: Conversations with Spirit and Pride.” The podcast’s audience is intended to be students who identify with the LGBTQ+ community that also have a religious and spiritual identity (or lack thereof). It creates a space for guests to share their stories and educate each other about their messages, working to make them feel like they are not alone in their own journeys within an intersection that is not often discussed.
Listen to the full project here.
Runner-up Ridley Randolph created a promotional video entitled, “GLC Elon Day.”
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2020 Winners
2019 Winners
2019 Multimodal Contest Winners
For this year, we had a total of five winners, and five categories that received submissions. The Grand Prize Winner for this year was Elena Hernandez in the School of Arts and Sciences, for her piece “Be Human Centered.” Congratulations Elena, and congratulations to everyone who participated this year. Let’s take a look at the rest!
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School of Arts and Sciences
🏆Winner: Elena Hernandez ’19 (Communication Design)
This submission is titled “Be Human Centered.” She created interactive mini case study stories that, alongside online resources, give her audience tools to apply empathy in their work and daily lives. She included a creative component of letting her audience choose their own adventure scenarios highlighting the importance of an empathetic mindset and inspiring people to be more empathetic.
The runner-ups for this category were Imanol Yepez-Frias and Jerrod Tanner for a podcast posted on SoundCloud, called “Ohio Podcast Mixdown.”
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School of Business
🏆Winners: Suzzanne Zenoni ’19 (Accounting), Jonathan Connolly ’20 (Accounting), and Caroline Resetar ’19 (Accounting)
This submission is titled “CJS Tutoring.”
The runner-up for this category was Stefanie Milovic, for a video posted on YouTube called “Pairing Paws Explainer Video.”
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School of Communications
🏆Winner: Oliver Fischer ’19 (Journalism)
This submission is titled “Conservators Center Brings Big Cats to Burlington.”
The runner up for this category was Kaitlyn Heit, for a mock Instagram campaign post she created for Tarte Cosmetics.
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Graduate Program
🏆Winner: Nan Yang ’20 (Doctor of Physical Therapy)
This submission is titled “Myotome Video.”
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Internship
🏆Winner: Hannah Podhorzer ’19 (Communication Design and Public Health)
This submission is titled “Infographic Day Six.”
The runner up for this category was Noah Brown for an article he wrote called, “Raising Early Stage Capital: A Cautionary Tale.”
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2018 Winners
2018 Multimodal Contest Winners
This was the first year of the contest. Despite the fact that it was the first Multimodal Contest, there was an impressive turnout for submissions from some of the schools and more, including Student Life, Graduate Program, and COR. Even though there wasn’t a Grand Prize Winner and not every school was able to participate this year, the initial participants made a positive first impression.
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School of Arts and Sciences
🏆Winner: Mackenzie Clarken ’18 (Strategic Communications)
This submission was titled Sophrosyne Tarot Deck.
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School of Business
🏆Winners: Nicole Bunder ’18 (Strategic Communications and Professional Sales), Caroline McLaughlin ’18 (Business Administration), Alaina Fennell (Business Administration), and Campbell Wentworth-Ping ’18 (Business Administration)
This submission was titled The Fossil Group IMC Campaign.
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School of Communications
🏆Winners: Maritza Gonzalez ’18 (Journalism), Juliana Walker ’18 (Journalism), Heather Munro ’18 (Journalism), Zachary Hrinuk ’18 (Journalism), and Matthew Williamson ’18 (Journalism)
This submission was titled The Faces of Homelessness in Alamance County.
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Graduate Program
🏆Winner: Sarah Donahue ’18 (Interactive Media)
This submission was titled AstroGoldie and the Eight Planets.
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Student Life
🏆Winner: Kayla Hoey ’18 (Journalism)
This submission was titled Panic: Pencil it In. Exploring high functioning
mental ilness in college-aged students.
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CORE
🏆Winners: AJ Genovesi ’21 (Media Analytics), Molly Jenks ’21 (Journalism and Performing Arts), Caroline Mansfield ’21 (Strategic Communications and TV/Cinema Arts), Kristiana Ringer ’21 (Environmental and Sustainability Studies) and Jacob Whyte
This submission was titled AFGHANISTAN: AFLAME, AFFLICTED, OR AFLOAT.
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