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Originally Posted by Cory
We barely had the time for the mentors to work on it, let alone to form a committee of students to get this done. We had two options here. The mentors write the submission and hope the kids can get it in on time, or the mentors write the submission and slightly circumvent the system (which is completely broken) to ensure that our students have the chance to be recognized. It was a no brainer to us.
I agree with everything that David has said. As mentors we know our students a LOT better than the students do. I also feel that the team does not need to know what we wrote about the students we submitted for.
The point here was to recognize an outstanding student (or two) on your team. We did our absolute best to make that happen, which is what any team should have done. I see absolutely no reason why that is "very wrong"
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Creating a false account was wrong, in my opinion.
What is
very wrong is the way the rollout of the award was handled. That would be "very wrong" with any award. With a new award that already has too much prestige/value to be ignored - it is
very wrong to put teams of your caliber with such an incredible reputation - into such difficult positions as to feel that you have to make choices like this. To put all the teams
through this.
(In our case - it was a collaborative effort within the team - students and mentors working together.)
Jane
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