Awards Night

In order to get someone to your awards night, do you have to be completely finished with the entire process, i.e. do you have to be medically cleared?
 
WmHBonney: I don't think you would need to be medically cleared to be presented the scholarship. It's really an honorary recognition. Many things can happen before a person actually gets paid the scholarship money, so this is just a public recognition of the scholarship selection.
 
Just a word of caution. I just found out today the army rep. coming to our son's awards ceremony next week had been given the wrong time! He would have been arriving 12 hours too late if I hadn't happened to contact him to double check the details. Take nothing for granted!

Chessycat8
Son awarded 4-year AROTC scholarship. Will attend Virginia Tech and major in Engineering.
 
My son was so excited to get the scholarship. He's not big on showing off but was really looking forward to being acknowledged for this. He asked school counselor about it and she said no because of time constraints. :frown: They will acknowledge it, just not a big to do like some of you will have. He really got a kick of reading that some of you all the the big "lottery check." :biggrin:
 
Centhea said:
WmHBonney: I don't think you would need to be medically cleared to be presented the scholarship. It's really an honorary recognition. Many things can happen before a person actually gets paid the scholarship money, so this is just a public recognition of the scholarship selection.
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At my sons school the Navy only gave the "Big Checks" & backpacks with some surprises in them to the 3 kids that had passed all of the medical requirments. The other 3 kids that are waiting on medical did get recognized verbally and I believe they may have received a small certificate.
 
Wow

Our sons scholarship/awards night was 2 days ago and all I can say is "wow". Our son has always tried to fly under the radar in terms of acknowledgement. Our motto is, "if your kid is good enough you won't have to talk about him, other people will." Consequently, displaying trophys or even talking about accomplishments just isn't his style. Based on how the Marines presented his scholarship I guess that is not how they do things. The counselor told my son that because it was such a large amount it would be presented during the first half of the night with the awards instead of the scholarship portion. The staff sergeant and captain came in dress blues and while everyone before and after them used the microphone, they did not. They didn't need it. When they presented the big cardboard check with $140,000 written on it and said full tuition at Penn State the room went silent. I know this comment will date me but it was "so cool". Even got my husband, the big tough guy misty eyed. Oh one more thing. The night lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes and many of the presenters left before the evening was over. Not the Marines. They were there until the end. Happy Memorial Day everyone. A huge heartfelt thank you to all of you who have chosen to serve!
 
Love hearing about these presentations!

Our son's senior awards night was Thursday, 05/27, and he received the *big check* for $180K. I had hoped for a little more detailed explanation about the scholarship for the audience because I know most people don't really understand what it all means, but overall it went really well. I took some fun pictures -- looks like he won the lotto. We recorded the presentation to share with family.

We are very impressed with the number of ROTC scholarships and academy appts covering all service branches. No one from our school (in Maryland) going to USNA this year, but 1 foundation scholarship. There were 3 NROTC, 1 marine option ROTC, 1 AFROTC scholarships, plus 1 USAFA, 3 USCGA, and 1 USMA appts. I think I covered them all.

Congratulations to everyone!!!
 
Son's award night is coming up on June 3. Last night (Memorial Monday! I guess they're always on duty) the ROO at a local college called to say the PMS would present his certificate and he needed some student background for the notes on his index cards. I was impressed that they were so proactive. Since the PMS conducted Son's AROTC interview (last October) I hope he can recall a little bit about meeting him personally.

Is it normal to get a nervous lump in my throat just thinking about this? :redface:
 
Wow the NROTC awards night presentations sounds great. I am jealous because our experience with NROTC awards night was not so good.

DS had two award nights, one for academic hs and one for extra-circular hs. NROTC cancelled two days before academic hs awards night and didn't show up for extra-circular hs awards night. The extra-circular hs program started 15 minutes late waiting for Navy to show up. No call, txt, email etc after promising to attend. DS received 3 other awards, but was very disappointed NROTC did not show. Especially since he is very proud to have received NROTC Scholarship. Air Force and Marine Corp attended but no Navy.

Needless to say we were not to happy. I wrote two stern emails expressing our disappointment. Thank goodness I followed the 24 hour rule of cool off before sending. Next day DS received very sincere call from the Navy Rep apologizing for missing the ceremony and not contacting the school or us. He had to rush his very sick 2 month old baby to the hospital. It was an emergency and he really had no way of contacting us. Yes it was disappointing, but as my DS correctly said "it is the scholarship that is important".

DS Grandmother had the best comment, she said "it is ok you were up on the stage longer than anyone else to collect other awards."

Life goes on....Go Blue....Go Navy
 
I'm so sorry, Grtkidmom. Although I do understand unexpected emergencies, it would have been nice if the principal could have made the presentation or even the Marine rep. Your son deserved to be recognized for his scholarship.

You son has the right attitude which will no doubt serve him well in adult life, and grandmas are the best!
 
Grtkidmom,

I truly understand that emergencies do occur, but the Navy Rep I would think could have contacted someone in his chain, for someone else to do the presentation.


PS Tell DS Thank you for their service to the Country,

God Bless and God Speed,

RGK
 
This is one of those situations where your mileage may vary.

When I presented a USMA appointment at an awards night recently, I was very embarassed that the 4 students who received ROTC scholarships to a nearby university received only verbal recognition from the guidance counselor. Granted, I was glad to be able make a big show of the USMA appointment and to not have to outshine an ROTC presenter, but those young men and woman deserved more recognition than they got, especially since the university is less than 20 minutes from the high school and the ROTC folks easily could have shown up.

Sometimes, the lack of class some ROTC/Academy reps show is disappointing.
 
grtkidmom said:
Thank goodness I followed the 24 hour rule of cool off before sending.
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The best thing my gramma ever taught me was the 24-hour rule!!

Yesterday was my son's award's ceremony at school. His girlfriend got a big to do from the USNA, a friend got a big to do from the USCGA, and a girl got the big "lottery" check for NROTC to MIT. Since we found out about DS scholarship only about a week ago guidance counselor said there was no time for a big recognition. His name was called out along with the name of scholarship. Wish it had been more, but we are very thankful for the scholarship and I was happy he was recognized at all.
 
NROTC scholarship to Villanova

My son received NROTC scholarship 3 weeks ago. He was expecting the big check at awards. I thought I'd better check in on this. School was not aware, so I called main office for his region, they told me what office would be responsible. In the end a Petty Officer came and did a very nice presentation at awards with the BIG CHECK. It meant a lot to my son, you need to as in everything to check it out.
 
^^^
I need be, a BGO could make a NROTC presentation :redface:
 
Just had mine tonight and it was pretty cool. No big speech, but virtually everyone there made up for it with applause and comments :biggrin:

I wasn't expecting anything big though (and those who know me know I don't exactly seek recognition) so I was fine with a handshake and congratulations. I really appreciate the officer taking his time to drive out and back home in rush hour traffic to do it. The nearest detachment is a pretty good distance.
 
Disappointingly, there wasn't even mention of my son's (or another 4 yr recipient)scholarship at the awards night. The school was well aware of both of their accomplishments and never even mentioned it.


It's all good though- they worked hard to earn it, and we're so very proud!
 
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