AWARDS HELP

[Beth Sweet]

Always a favorite: Put the name of each of your teammates on a sheet of paper. Ask each teammate to fill out mock awards for their fellow teammates. Pick the most amusing for each person and print off a certificate for it.

[ghansel]

The "Ghetto Fabricator of the Year" award is always a funny one.

[Bharat Nain]

You could create an award based on a mentor/parent who has done a lot for the team and call it something like "The John Smith award" or something. Create different categories like attitude and leadership, hardwork, amazing skill.. blah blah.. you can come up with so many of that sort. Just look at the awards FIRST gives out and get creative.
-Bharat

[slickguy2007]

Make a spirit award and make sure that the MC's keep making announcements about it. Make sure that its at a point where everyone wants it and I guarentee you the energy in the area will jump about 100 knotches. It becomes so much fun for everyone when you have spirit awards. You can even mention the award before the competition so that people get a chance to prepare .


GO 1403!!!

[JackN]

You could create a hall of fame and induct some members into it.

[Joe J.]

Our mentors hand out several awards to students the include: Hardest Working, Most Improved, Rookie of the Year, Best Sense of Humor in Adversity, Most spirit, Gracious Professionalism, Sportsmanship, Most Innovative, and Creativity. They do change it up every once and awhile.

As for Mentors they deserve awards too, last year we started handing out our teams version of the Woodie Flowers Award we call it the Brian Graham Mentor Leadership Award, We gave it to the mentor it was named after and or Teacher Adviser who has been with the team since 2000. This year we will be handing it out to another mentor who has done allot to lead the team. We also have a Mentor Rookie of the Year Award.

What our team did at our team's banquet was sned a dinner gift and a thank you picture to the wives of all of our mentors and the guys at the machine shops, thanking them for all of their husbands absences. Another idea is to just have a time where the team sits in a circle, and people just thank other for certain accomplishments and tasks that turned out well.