Let the spotlight stay on your students long after the award ceremonies are over. Many high-achievers carry the pride of their scholastic excellence through college and into their adult lives. There are both elegant and fun methods to represent their accomplishments that your school can provide to your students. Here are some friendly suggestions!
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Awards for Academic Achievement
Meaningful Methods for Recognizing Your Students’ Success.
What Are Academic Awards for Students?
Academic awards for students are tangible ways for a school to recognize scholastic excellence and outstanding academic effort. They let the spotlight stay on high-achieving students long after the award ceremony is over, giving them something to carry with pride through college and into adult life. Common formats include certificates of achievement, custom chenille patches and pins, recognition banners, plaques, and medals, each suited to different activities and honors.
Schools choose formats to fit the achievement. Below are the main options and where each one works best.
- Certificates and plaques. The standard for displaying scholarly success in academic activities and honors classes; frame them or mount them on plaques.
- Recognition banners. A less formal way to display awards, and a place to show pins and patches instead of attaching them to a jacket.
- Patches and pins. Customizable for participation and excellence in clubs and organizations such as Speech & Debate, Future Business Leaders of America, and National Honor Society.
- Medals. Ideal for competition winners like Mathletes, Knowledge Bowl, and Spelling Bee champions, available as pre-made stock medals or fully personalized custom medals.
What Is an Academic Achievement Award?
An academic achievement award is a recognition given to a student for excellence in scholastic activities, honors classes, or academic competitions rather than athletics. It rewards students for outstanding effort and victory alike, from those who excel in honors coursework to champions of events like the Spelling Bee or Knowledge Bowl. The award can take the form of a certificate, plaque, banner, patch, pin, or medal, chosen to match the accomplishment being celebrated.
The sections below cover each of these methods in more detail.
Frame It & Hang It
Certificates of achievement are still the standard for displaying scholarly successes; and it’s not just for doctors and lawyers, it’s for the young people who will someday be those things. Your students who excel in academic activities or honors classes can frame these certificates or have them mounted on plaques and hang them along with recognition banners – a less formal yet fun way to display any awards they receive. These banners can be used to display pins and patches as an alternative to attaching them to a letterman jacket.
Letterman Jackets Aren’t Just for Athletes
Do you have exemplary students on your Speech & Debate teams? Do you have strong Future Business Leaders of America or National Honor Society clubs in your school? The traditional letterman jacket is the perfect place for your students to display their participation and excellence in these activities and organizations with customizable patches and pins.
A Gold Medal for the Active Brain
Let us not forget the Mathletes or the Knowledge Bowl and Spelling Bee champions. These competitions can be just as challenging as high school sports and your students are fiercely proud of these accomplishments as well. Medals are the perfect way to reward their triumphs and they come in several shapes and styles, from pre-made stock medals for many activities to custom medals which can be personalized and as detailed as you want them to be.
Awards America can help you celebrate your students, to revel in their successes, and to award them for outstanding effort and victory alike.
