Congratulations Shailja!
Date: May 17, 2018
Subject: 2018 NEAFCS Award Notification
Dear Shailja:
Congratulations! Your application in the Mary W. Wells Memorial Diversity Award category titled “South Asian Health Awareness About Stroke (SAHAS)” has been selected a 1st Place National Winner and 1st Place Eastern Region Winner in the NEAFCS Annual Awards Program. If this was a Team award, please notify your Team members, and extend my congratulations to them as well.
Awards will be presented at the Annual Session at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter in San Antonio, Texas. Regional awards will be presented at the Regional Awards Lunch on Tuesday, September 25 from 11:15 AM to 1:15 PM. National awards will be presented at the NEAFCS Awards Ceremony on Thursday evening, September 27th.
Your award is tied to a $425 Annual Session Scholarship. This means that your Annual Session registration will be reduced by that amount when you use the code indicated below. Annual Session registration will open June 1.
To apply your scholarship to your registration, complete the online registration form, and enter AWD425 at check out. This code will reduce your amount due by the scholarship amount. Please do not share this code with anyone, including any members of your team if a team entry.
Also, as stated in the awards manual, “If the applicant is not able to attend Annual Session the year the award is received the scholarship will be forfeited but the award certificate will still be given to the recipient.”
In the case of team awards, the scholarship will be given to the individual who completed the online award application (team leader). It will be the responsibility of the team leader to compensate other team members per agreement by the team. If the team leader is not able to attend Annual Session they may designate in writing, one (1) other NEAFCS team member (whose name appears on the original online award application) to receive the scholarship to attend Annual Session the year the award is received.
To accept your National Award, please complete the online acceptance form at https://neafcs.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_254512 and indicate whether you will be present at the Awards Ceremony in San Antonio to receive the award.
Before submitting your RSVP, please contact and verify all team members who will also be attending the Awards Ceremony during the Annual Session so that we can reserve seating for them. After August 1, you will not be able to add any team members to your RSVP.
If you provide the name and address of your Extension Administrator on the Acceptance Form, we will notify him/her of your selection as a winner. Please complete the online acceptance form by Wednesday, August 1.
Please print a copy of this announcement for your file. NEAFCS requests that you not publicize your selection until after the official awards presentations are made in September.
Feedback from the judging of your award submission will be available after Annual Session in September.
Again, congratulations on your award-winning application! I look forward to seeing you in Texas. Please contact me at susan.routh@okstate.edu should you have any questions.
Very truly yours,
Susan Routh
NEAFCS Vice President for Awards & Recognition
