Outstanding Chapter Recruitment Submissions
Thank you to our panel of judges!
We hope that this set up will allow for a smooth and efficient judging process. Following each list of submissions is the rubric for judging that specific category. If you have any questions or concerns throughout this process, please do not hesitate to contact Sunita Jaswal, local_activities@hq.acm.org.
Listed below is a brief description of what we expect, followed by each chapters' submission.
Outstanding Chapter Recruitment - 16 Chapter Submissions
Chapters should apply to the Outstanding Chapter Recruitment category if they have done an excellent job of recruiting student ACM members. They should tell us about their recruiting program. The following questions should be addressed:
- How do they let students at their school know about their Chapter?
- How do they get them interested in joining?
- What factors are most critical to the chapters success?
- How many members does their chapter have?
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