[wilsonmw04]

It has changed recently, but I believe that you can count anything your team has done over the past 5 years. This should answer the question about counting things that graduating student did. The simple answer is "yes."

As to the OP question: If it were my team, the answer would be no. If it was an individual accomplishment and that individual requested that we not use something for Chairman's, we would not use it. However, if if was a TEAM accomplishment and done in the name of the TEAM, then I think that's were we enter a gray area.

We insist that we have documentation for everything that we put in our essay and presentation. This helps keep the gray areas to a minimum. It's also inoculates the team from those who would say, "They really didn't do that."