Win an award

I want to win an award relating to my profession in marketing

Easily my greatest accomplishment in my 22 years. First-place in the New Jersey Press Association’s Better College Newspaper Contest. :D

I got my first real ‘award’ last night at our graduating design exhibition! It was such a great suprise!

I have always put a lot of effort into my studies, and therefore received good grades all throughout school. However i have never been one of those amazing students that gets presented academic achievement awards at school assemblies and what not.

But last night, our state’s graphic design association in conjunction with my lecturers, voted and presented me with the award for student with the most professional attitude towards work/study/presentation. Wooo!

My mother was so proud! Hehe.

Its nice to be finally recognised for all my hard work! And it should look great on my resume too! =)

I was just notified that I won a national “parent of the year” award for an advocacy organization I work with. I was stunned. It’s a bit misleading, though, because I believe that only people from my state were nominated, since the national convention is being held here this year. So really it’s a state award, not a national award, but it sure sounds good anyway! And it will be a nice way to get some recognition for our local organization and build some credibility with the powers-that-be. I’ll have to keep my mouth shut that probably only a handful of people were nominated in the first place. :)

Edit: No, no, it’s not for being a good parent – it’s for the category of “parent” (as opposed to educator, professional, legislator, etc.) in making a difference in our advocacy efforts. It should be called “Parent Advocate of the Year” I suppose.

I won the “spirit of youth award a year or so back. it was for “dedicated service inspiring our youth toward the creation of a better world through aesthetics”. I like to volunteer and i love the arts so putting it together got me this award.

It’s not actually that I want to win an award as much as it is that I would like to be doing work that is worthy of an award. I want to feel that I deserve an award.

At the moment, I guess the only awards I could be up for would be a WCCA or an Eisner. I’ll see about expanding that and becoming eligible for Emmy’s and Oscars.

I’ve won dozens of awards, big and small, in many different forms, for all sorts of things: Art, spelling, attendance, sports, participation, music, public speaking, reading, science, and more… :D

What I need is a keepsake box for all of them…. x)

I like to say that I have no luck.. No bad luck, no good luck. It all just seems to even out. But I have always wanted to win something and this has never really happened unless $2.00 in a bingo game at the age of 10 counts? Is it sad that I am still holding on to that 21 years later? umm. I need more of goal though I think. What kind of Award should I try for? Thanks, elizabeth

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A few years ago I won an award for excellence in design at a Philadelphia convention center exhibition for a bench I designed and built (woodworking). I was young & stupid and I sold the bench for about $1000 right after the show, but I would now trade the award for the bench anyday.