EMS Expo Essay Contests

All right, Newbies, we're getting close to that end-of-the month deadline for the EMS World Expo Essay Contest! If you're an EMT student or EMT with less than two years of experience, you've got until midnight, May 31 to submit your essay. Just so you know what you stand to win, let's review the prizes and schwag Confessions of an EMS Newbie and our contest sponsors have lined up for you:
 

1st Place: All expenses trip to EMS World Expo in Las Vegas. A 3-day conference registration and three show events (provided by EMS World), and a shift shadowing Dr Bryan Bledsoe at University Medical Center ED. Airfare supplied by Emergency Training Associates, and lodging supplied by Cielo Azul Publishing. The winner also gets a 1-year subscription to EMS World magazine, and appears on one of our live webcasts from the conference.

2nd Place: 1-year subscription to EMS World and fully stocked first responder BLS trauma bag.
A customized Confessions of an EMS Newbie case for your iPhone, or other smartphone. A signed copy of En Route: A Paramedic’s Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between by Kelly Grayson.

3rd Place: 1-year subscription to EMS World and fully stocked first responder BLS trauma bag, and a signed copy of En Route: A Paramedic’s Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between by Kelly Grayson.

Go to the contest page for more details!

If you're not an EMS Newbie, and you'd still like a chance to go to Vegas, EMS World magazine is providing two winners from the Robert G. Nixon Memorial essay contest with free registration to EMS World Expo, and $1000 in travel and expense money. Deadline is June 30. Go here to read about the contest rules and submission guidelines.

Get to writing, and hopefully we'll see y'all in Vegas, baby!