service awards. This will be our seventh year of recognizing outstanding secondary and post-secondary classroom educators as well as industry and community partners who support the advanced manufacturing industry in Florida.  Twenty one outstanding and dedicated educators and advanced manufacturing professionals from all over the state have been recognized to date.

• Brainstorm a couple of deserving nominees
• Visit the FLATE awards website: https://fl-ate.org/projects/awards/index.html
• Click on Nomination Form I
• Enter your nominee’s name and contact information as well as your own
• Hit the submit button (and you are done with part 1)
• In a couple of days, you and the nominee will get an email from FLATE with an award nominee code and a link to Part II of the nomination process (Note: this part pertains to only nominees)

• Enter your name and name of two references
• Draft a maximum of 250 word statement outlining importance of manufacturing education
• Draft 250 word (or less) statement stating how they have impacted manufacturing education and/or engineering technology education and training for students, educators and community at the local/state/national level
• Click “submit” button

Selection committee will announce winners by November 1, 2014. FLATE Awards are reviewed and judged by our Industry Advisory Committee using a point leveled rubric and score tally sheet. They return their recommendations to FLATE after reviewing all the completed nomination forms. We hope that the two-step process will make the nomination process easier for everyone. By bringing the nominee into the process, the nominee can help document his, or her own accomplishments.