WFFA limits at District CMP

[Chris Fultz]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

What if there was some sort of level 3 woodie flowers award. Just a small piece of paper likes deans list that way it recognizes the mentor with something physical but doesn't cost an arm and a leg. WFFA has to be one of the most expensive awards to give out with the trophy and banner.

Our students always frame the essay with a large border matte, and then they all sign the border before putting the essay inside. Then, at the last team event, they ready the essay to the whole team and all mentors. This is a great way for every team to recognize their nominee.

[Rich Kressly]

Originally Posted by Chris Fultz

Our students always frame the essay with a large border matte, and then they all sign the border before putting the essay inside. Then, at the last team event, they ready the essay to the whole team and all mentors. This is a great way for every team to recognize their nominee.

That's a great practice that I would hope many teams would follow. The two teams I was a part of were in the practice of doing this and it's one way to be sure to recognize your mentor meaningfully, regardless of awards rules or announcement standardization. And I'm sure the committee is working very hard at standardizing the announcements.

[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

From what I've heard recently, the WFA winners still process all the paperwork themselves. They break up into small committees for each area, read the nominations, pick one, and write up the text that is read off when the award is given. I imagine it's a huge time commitment from those individuals.

That said, narrowing down the pool of WFFA's going into champs has to make it easier to pick the next WFA. Remember, in addition to all of the WFFA's from this season, there could be (and probably are) a significant number of renominations from teams with previous WFFA winners.

It does feel like all the awards should scale together at the district level- if you have 3 chairman's teams, then you should have 3 WFFA's and 6 Dean's List.

Yes. Keep in mind that not only are they judging the WFFA winners from all of the regionals/DCMPs for that year, but ALL of the re-nominated WFFA winners from previous years. It amounts easily to a thousand or more essays to be read by the WFA winners every year to determine the WFA at the championship. That's a lot of essays, folks.

Also keep in mind that there are plenty of other ways to recognize your mentors outside of the WFFA.