BigRentz Awards $10,000 in Scholarships to Engineering and Film Students

Equipment rental network BigRentz announced winners of its inaugural scholarship program for students pursuing higher education in engineering and film studies.

Michael Roth

Sept. 7, 2018

Joshua Leong wins a 5000 scholarship for film production — Joshua Leong wins a $5,000 scholarship for film production.

Equipment rental network BigRentz announced winners of its inaugural scholarship program for students pursuing higher education in engineering and film studies. Lauren Brabson, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M, and Joshua Leong, a freshman majoring in film production at New York University, Tisch School of Arts, were each awarded a $5,000 scholarship to offset educational expenses.

“Investing in students is a core value at BigRentz – especially those learning to apply renewable energy to engineering processes and helping to visually tell how people, ideas, and technology come together,” said Scott Cannon, BigRentz CEO. “Lauren’s essay demonstrated critical knowledge of the fact that modern engineering disciplines have a long road ahead of themselves in the matter of adapting to new technological processes, as well as the challenges posed by the need for renewable energy. Furthermore, Joshua’s essay was extremely detailed and exhibited a thorough understanding of cinematography. His submission was one of few that truly made the reader experience all cinematic elements of his chosen film, Whiplash.”

BigRentz received more than 350 essays and selected the winning essays based on their understanding and vision for their fields.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.