Thread: Improvements to the Dean's List. Your Ideas?
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Re: Improvements to the Dean's List. Your Ideas?
I would just like to remind those who are forming new improvements to follow the KISS method. My personal opinion is that there is too much overthinking going into this discussion.

I, personally, don't care if a Junior is not nominated. I also don't care what the future of the nominee holds for the nominee at the time we are making the nomination. I care about the value of the contributions the student has made to the team, helping to build and strengthen the FIRST program and STEM initiatives in the local community and potentially impacting the regional, national, and global communities as well. (The Dean's List is recognized at the Championship level which is not the National level. The Championship level recognizes the candidates that qualify from around the world. A National level would recognize only the candidates from the nation.)

By not caring about the graduating class a nominee is in or what happens after high school graduation, I mean - I'm not going to weigh and measure the nominee's value by the school he or she applies to or the choices he or she makes after high school. That is not going to play into my part of helping to honor the inspirational work and contributions of a student.

When you start moving beyond that and into college selection possibilities, you begin dabbling in politics. That is not what I think the Dean's List Award is about or should be about.

Jane
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