Woodie Flowers Award

A student award submitter can enter their candidate through the FIRST Dashboard. The lead mentor 1 or 2 for each team must assign at least one (1) and up to two (2) student award submitters in the FIRST Dashboard. Check out the Instructions to assign an Awards Submitter if you need assistance. It is suggested that you begin gathering all required information before it is time to submit and type the nomination as a Text Document so that it is easier to edit and check the character limit. When finished, it can be pasted to the on-line submission.

Student nominators must follow the directions listed on the screen. As the student nominator fills out the required information.

Student nominators can easily enter information, save it, and return to the site to edit their entry information until they are ready to submit it for judging. All entries must be submitted between the dates listed in Submission Dates. No entries will be accepted or altered after this date.

Students will go to the website to enter information in the following fields:

Team Number (Auto populated)

Team Name (Auto populated)

School (if affiliated)(Auto populated)

Select an Eligible Mentor

First Name, Last Name (Auto populated)

(Auto populated)Phonetic spelling of mentor name

Occupation

Position on team (Auto populated)

Email Address (Auto populated)

High School Student Nominator’s information: (Student recommending candidate)

First Name, Last Name (Auto populated)

Adult Reference (Must Select an Eligible Mentor on the team)

Occupation

Adult Reference (Any FIRST affiliation)

First Name, Last Name

Phone Number

E-mail Address

Upload Pictures (1 required photo of nominee, preferably a headshot, up to (3) three additional photos, all photos no more than 1.0 MB total)

Essay (Character max: 3,000) - Once candidates’ information and essays are submitted, they are sorted and posted on a private, password-protected site where only the Judges can read the entries.

Please Note: By making a submission the Nominator irrevocably grants to FIRST and FIRST designees the right to use any or all the submission in any media for describing the submission, describing the Award, and/or otherwise promoting FIRST and FIRST programs.