[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

My fondest memory of this award is still seeing a senior who had no idea she was even nominated get announced as a winner. Anecdotal and non-consequential in the scheme of things, but this change is a hard sell for me.

The "surprise" factor is one thing I talked with a few other mentors about over the weekend... Our team has always had DL nominations be entirely at the mentor's discretion. As a result, the students have never known who was nominated (until we tell them after the event), and it came as a huge surprise to one of our students who won last year. With the interview portion being added this year, there won't be that surprise any more.