Confused about semifinalists/finalists/winners for Dean's List and Woodie Flowers

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Andrea C.

If all nominees are semifinalists, I don't understand why our team's nominee was singled out from all the other teams' nominees/semifinalists at our district event and announced at the award ceremony as if he'd earned some status that separated him from the rest. To put it a different way, if their status is different, as indicated at our district event, it seems odd to me that they'd share the same title (semifinalist).

Because these titles are developed with the regional model in mind. In the regional model, there's only regionals and FRC championship. The student(s) selected by each team are semi-finalists, and those who win at the regional level are finalists for the award at Championship.

In a district format, there's simply too many students to consider them all at the DCMP alone (particularly in Michigan. As a result, the field is narrowed at the district event level. There is no distinction in title between the district event and those that advance to the DCMP. Your student was one of the semi-finalists selected to proceed to the DCMP, but all the students nominated by their team are also semi-finalists.