Tuesday, NovemberZSth, 2014 | TechNews Campus Life Excellence Awards recognize student achievements Kori Bowns EDITOR-IN-CHIEF IIT’s Office of Campus Life (OCL) unveiled the Campus Life Excellence Awards this semester as a way for the office to recog- nize student organizations and student lead— ers for their contributions to campus and the community. OCL ppened nominations for a variety of organization and individual awards on Hakaink on October 1 of this semester. Nominations for the awards closed on No— vember 4, and copies of the nominations were made available in the OCL office suite for students to read over the past few weeks. The Office of Campus Life and Division of Stu- dent Affairs assessed the award nominations, then prepared for the Campus Life Excellence Awards Ceremony, held on Tuesday, Novem- ber 18 from 5 pm. to 7 pm. in the MTCC Ball- room, When arriving at the awards cer— emony, students were greeted by a dessert buf- fet featuring fruit, cupcakes, and a hot choco- late bar. The event began with some free time for students and OCL staff to mingle, and the awards presentation began at 5:30 p.m. The Office of Campus Life first pre- sented awards that the office was responsible for nominating. OCL presented awards for two categories, Excellence in Budgeting and Excel- lence in Programming. Twenty-two certifi- cates were presented to student organizations for excellence in budgeting; twenty—three cer— tificates were presented to student organiza- tions for excellence in programming. The ceremony then shifted to the individual awards. The Outstanding New Member award was presented to Ajay Johnson from Student Government Association. The Outstanding Senior Member award was given to Engineers Without Borders member Sara Glade. The award for Outstanding Executive Board Member was presented to Erez Miller of American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Ricky Stevenson was presented the Outstand- ing Student Organization President award for his work in Greek Council. Finally, the Unsung Hero award was presented to Alpha Sigma Phi’s Richard Stubing. Next came the awards presented to student organizations as a whole. OCL pre- sented their Outstanding New Student Or- ganization Award to Circle K International. MEDLIFE was then presented the Outstand- ing Community Service Project award for their Medical Brigade project. African Student Or— ganization received two awards for The Enno- blement of Africa event that was hosted by the organization in early October; they received the Outstanding Academic/Educational Pro- gram Award and the Outstanding Diversity/ Multicultural Program. A partnership of two organizations, American Society of Civil Engineers and Con— struction Management Association of Amer- ica, also received two awards for the CAEE Career Fair they collaborated on; both orga- nizations received the Outstanding Collabora— tive Program award as well as the Outstand- ing Overall Program award. The Outstanding Fundraising Program award was presented to Engineers Without Borders (EWB) for their EWB-IIT Gala. Latinos Involved in Further Education (LIFE) received the Outstanding Social and Entertainment Program award for their Latino Dance Night. The awards ceremony concluded with a thanks to all of those in attendance as well as the students and organizations recog- nized as well as the opportunity for students to take photos with their awards. Photos courtesy of H T Ofiice of Campus Life — - — — — _ - — - — — — — - — — — - — - - — TechNews Wm gammy fiiflig 2%?5 1 Join‘the first TechNews Writer’s Meeting of Spring 2015 Sunda , January 25 C8) 4PM m Office MTCC 221, Office of Campus Life Suite) Find us at the Spring Semester Student Involvement Festival on Thursday, January 22 Email editor®technewsiitcom with any questions or article submissions