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2024 AAF Tampa Bay Award Winners

Z School advertising students were recognized in the first round of the national American Advertising Federation ADDY Awards Program, one of the industry’s largest creative competitions, attracting nearly 35,000 professional and student entries each year in competitions offered through local AAF clubs. Aaron Payne won three Gold ADDY awards, including the award for Advertising Craft: Copywriting. A team of Z School advertising students, including Teodora Tavares and Gabriela Passos, won the Judges Choice Award, in which the judges choose their favorite piece to automatically elevate to the regional competition. 
            
The local Ad Club phase is the first of a three-tier national competition. At the second tier, local ADDY winners compete against winners from other local clubs in one of 15 regional district competitions. District ADDY winners are then forwarded to the third tier, the national stage of the American Advertising Awards. The mission of the American Advertising Awards is to recognize and reward the creative spirit of excellence in advertising. 

CONGRATULATIONS! To all the ADDY winners and Adjunct Professor Burton Runyan, who directed the students' work. The students received their awards at the 2024 AAF Tampa Bay Awards Gala.