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Originally Posted by BugByte
It's interesting that they're suggesting teams nominate juniors for dean's list. I understand they could benefit from it the most but I would like to think it's more than that.
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Through NCWIT, I befriended Beth Hadley, who was one of the Deans List Winners from the first year. She said that Dean and them wanted to give the award to juniors so that they could put it on college applications. Apparently they wanted it to become a prestigious award that would help high achieving FIRST students (although every FIRST student is high achieving..) get into fancy colleges. Certain awards and competitions, like the Intel Science Fair, are acknowledged as being a 'big deal' and FIRST wants its Dean's List to join that kinda thing. Supposedly MIT already recognizes this as very important, which must be true because thats where Beth is now! (although she won Deans List as a senior)