Hey, I hear paper is cheaper than metal these days!
w0000 for participation certificates in the upcoming years!
And btw, I am being semi-sarcastic if you haven't picked up on that - I have no knowledge of downgrading the awards to anything other than the pins currently being discussed, but that is how I see it. A downgrade.
But you know that getting a paper certificate is a possible direction this could be headed in given the slow move over the past couple years to implement "cost savings" into the program & more-so into the awards segment of the overall organization.
I'm probably not going to be popular because of this post with some people, & that's just fine with me.
I just needed to give my true response to the situation at hand.
Stop the downgrading!
$0.02