The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Philippines, the country chapter of the leading worldwide network of communication professionals, and COMCO School of Communications, the communication training and education arm of global award-winning communications group COMCO Mundo League of Enterprises, join forces to mount the first Communications Olympiad in the Philippines.
The Communications Olympiad is a nationwide training program for students taking up mass communication, communication arts, public relations, advertising, marketing, marketing communications, journalism, broadcast communication, communications research, development communication, digital marketing, and other related disciplines. The initiative envisions providing a learning journey with practical exercises through an Olympiad-level competition for the participants to advance their skills as the next communications professionals.
This year’s Olympiad has the theme: “Rewrite Climate Change.”
Participants are called to inform, educate, and inspire, emphasizing the role of storytelling and advocacy in driving awareness, shifting behaviors, and fostering collective action.
The program will have three phases: the qualifier phase, the elimination round, and the grand championship. Phase one or the qualifier phase will require one team — of five undergraduate students — per academic institution.
The chosen team representing the school will need to submit their position paper and an entry form which information can be accessed through website www.comcomundo.com/the-communications-olympiad/. The requirements should then be emailed to communicationsolympiad@comcomundo.com on or before March 14.
The position papers which serve as qualifier phase entries and will be thoroughly evaluated and 30 finalists and participants will be selected to proceed to the elimination round.
The second phase, the elimination round will have a pilot class and training sessions which will be made available to participants to help them build the expected skills set for the program.
Afterwards, the participants will be briefed and be given 24 hours to create a 10-slide communications plan which will be deliberated on to see the best works that will proceed to the final round.
The final phase is the grand championship, where the 15 finalists will get a chance to vie for the category medals. The top three finalists will then present their communication plan to the jury composed of experts in the industry. One team will emerge as The Communications Olympiad Grand Champion, along with the first and second runners-up.
