2022 AGC Outstanding Student Chapter Contest: Community Service Award

Description

The Community Service Award is awarded to those AGC Student Chapters that epitomize supporting, engaging and benefiting the community through service. Your Student Chapter may submit one or multiple community service projects for consideration. "Community" is defined as your school campus, other educational institutions, a local community non-profit organization, a national or international outreach program for disaster relief or a private person. "Service Projects(s)" is defined as any project servicing your local community, such as conducting career days, tutoring at high schools, a canned food or coat drive, Habitat for Humanity projects, fundraising to donate funds to a non-profit organization or partnering with your city to enhance/benefit others. "Service Project(s)" are not professional development activities such as: student competitions, club meetings, job fairs, fund raising for club events, golf tournaments benefitting your Student Chapter, AGC Chapter District meetings or other social events.

The winning AGC Student Chapter will receive a $2,000 cash prize, four (4) complementary student registrations and an additional $1,000 travel stipend to attend the AGC Annual Convention. All AGC Outstanding Student Chapter Contest applicants will be given the opportunity to showcase their Student Chapter at AGC's Annual Convention on March 13-16, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Students will be evaluated on:

1. Ability to clearly and concisely describe project(s)
2. Impact to community and students
3. Complexity level of the community service project(s)
4. Partnership with AGC
5. Photos/Media/newsletters

AGC recognizes that the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 has had significant impacts on the ability of Universities to complete scheduled projects for the 2021-2022 school year and therefore will accept documentation for planned builds/community service projects that were not completed as part of your schools application package. Each Outstanding Student Chapter application will have additional questions in the application for those who were not able to complete their build as part of their project for Contest consideration.

Requirements

The AGC of America Outstanding Student Contest Awards are open to all nationally chartered AGC Student Chapters. Project(s) or event(s) must be performed during the 2022-2022 academic year (August 2021 through May 2022). Project(s) or event(s) may be performed as part of a course if Student Chapter members completed it as a club activity or it could be an additional club activity.

This year AGC Student Chapters with community service budgets (amounts that the Student Chapter spends on community service projects during the year) cannot exceed $25,000 to qualify for this award. Student Chapters with community service funding of more than $25,000 should apply for the AGC In The Community Award

For additional questions, contact paige.packard@agc.org.