Clearly Pretty Awesome Competition Winner Announced

Clearly Pretty Awesome Competition Winner Announced

While C-P-A does not stand for Celebrity Paparazzi Antagonist, it does represent the winning entry for Jamie Nicholson and Caddo Mills High School in Caddo Mills, Texas. The high school student’s anti-definition of the acronym CPA beat out nearly 1000 other entries to score the top prize in the AICPA’s 
StartHereGoPlaces.com website’s first ever competition – the Clearly Pretty Awesome Competition – meant to encourage high school students to investigate accounting careers through the website designed primarily for them. Ms. Nicholson won a laptop for her creativity and her entry was chosen to kick off the Start Here, Go Places. advertising campaign. In addition, her school will be awarded a  $3,000 grant in her name for educational resources. The second-place entry, Country Pig Artist, came from Erica Haeberlin, a student atWhitefield Academy in Louisville, KY. To find out more about the Competition and the finalist entries, visit StartHereGoPlaces.com.

Cruising to College?

Applying to college can be a lot of work, so why not combine it with a vacation?  I got an email from Bob at Collegeology about a new program they're launching this summer called "Application Navigation".  Basically, it's a cruise with college admission experts.  Definitely something new.  Read the press release below. 

Cruising (literally) to college in 12 relaxed hours

AICPA Competition - Public voting: The power is in your hands.

StartHereGoPlaces.com, the site providing everything high school students need to know about careers as a Certified Public Accountant, has just launched the Clearly Pretty Awesome Competition . How does it live up to its name? By challenging students to come up with the crummiest, funniest "C-P-A" jobs imaginable (think "Curb Paint Applicator" or "Cheese Pastry Auctioneer") and using the winning entry in a national ad campaign.

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITES
Meet our finalists, selected for their special combination of originality, creativity and overall awesomeness. Take a look at them all, and pick who you believe best answered the call for the worst jobs around.

Here's the link to the voting
http://www.startheregoplaces.com/clearly-pretty-awesome/