Woodie Flowers Award

[MamaSpoldi]

I would like to make sure that you realize that the Woodie Flowers Award is intended (actually required) to come from the students based on their choice of whom they would like to recognize.

From the FRC Administrative Manual, Section 6.9.2 Woodie Flowers Award - Spirit of the Award:

This award recognizes an individual who has done an outstanding job of motivation through communication while also challenging the students to be clear and succinct in recognizing the value of communication. As such, it is very important that this be a student-led effort and a student decision. Team mentors should direct their students to the online entry site and let the high school students decide whom to nominate. Adults can help edit, but this must be a student-led effort, since any team mentor is eligible. Authors must be clearly identified as high school students in the online submission.

Note the portion I highlighted in blue text and underlined.

It is truly an honor to be nominated by your students but only if it is their decision to nominate you. The adults on the team should not have any influence on who is chosen or why.

Originally Posted by dtengineering

Any mentor worthy of a WFFA would be delighted to see one of their fellow mentors receive the award.

I could not agree more with this statement.

Ultimately, my point is that it is your choice as the students whom you would like to nominate and your long-time mentor is unlikely to object to the idea that there are other mentors who are also well respected and appreciated by the students.