sorry. i just got this email from the new emerging voices d00d who said i needed to answer immediately. hopefully you will find this up to snuff.

How did participation or selec-tion benefit you? (personally or as a firm)

The exhibition gave us a forum to frame our past work in a new way. We did not look at this as an opportunity to just show our work but to present it in a unified way that would transform it into a living mission statement, an allegorical charter for usefulness. We did not take anything away from the selec-tion directly other than faith in ourselves for being able to complete the work and the excitement at breathing new representational life and potential into old projects.
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Congratulations, the Emerging New York Architects Competition Coordinators have chosen your submission to be included in the Awards Exhibition @ the Center for Architecture in New York City! We felt your submission excelled in the criteria of: Innovation and Delight

Only 8 out of nearly 250 non-jury selected submissions were chosen to be included.

As part of the exhibition, we are asking you to submit additional information about yourself that will be included with your board. We need this information no later than *March 13, 2006*. If we do not receive any additional information, we will exhibit your board with your team (or individual) name and location as listed on your registration form.