2023 Creative and Innovative Awards
This year, NAASS is delighted to take nominations for five Creative and Innovative Awards (listed below). Our awards are designed to honor new summer session or precollege offices, “stolen” ideas from other offices, and efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in the summer session or pre-college space.
We hope you will consider nominating colleagues or yourselves! Two awards, our best poster and our new administrator award, will be restricted to voting at the conference itself – so please join us in St. Louis to vote on those awards!
To learn more about the 2023 annual conference in St. Louis, Nov. 11-15, click here.
NAASS Newcomer
- Summer Session/ or Pre College office started in the past 1-5 years.- votes pre-conference
- This award recognizes a Summer Session/pre-college office started in the past 1-5 years, which has made strides in the current field
Best Use of a Stolen Idea – Carol Switzer Award
- Votes pre-conference
- This award recognizes a summer session or pre-college program which has the best use of a stolen idea from another program
Summer Session or Pre-College Program Initiative with a Diversity Focus
- Votes pre-conference
- This award recognizes a summer session or pre-college office for their current work to support DEI efforts within their programming, student body or other DEI initiative
Best Poster – Big Idea
- Takes votes at the conference
- Attendees can vote on the best poster from the Big Ideas poster session during the conference
New Administrator Award
- Takes votes at the conference
- This award recognizes a new administrator who has gone above and beyond to connect with others, assist the organization, and more