Pete Huffman
LEAD Awards
NC State student leaders and organizations were honored for their passion, vigor and creativity at last night’s Leadership, Engagement and Development Award Ceremony in Talley’s Mountains-Piedmont Ballroom.
Awards were separated into four categories: Debra S. Moore Service Awards, Wolfpack Leadership Challenge Awards, Student Organization Outstanding Achievement Awards and CSLEPS Awards.
The 2016 award descriptions and winners are as follows:
Debra S. Moore Service Awards
Outstanding Student Volunteer
This award recognizes a student who has been involved in service to the community throughout their college career.
Winner: Veronica Catete, graduate student studying computer science
Outstanding Student Organization
This award recognizes an NC State student organization that has made a difference to the local community through service and volunteerism during the academic year.
Winner: Kappa Omicron Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Outstanding Service Program
This award recognizes a one-time event or ongoing project that has had a great impact on the community or an agency during the academic year.
Winner: Wolfpack Pick Up
Outstanding Philanthropy Program
This award recognizes a student led fundraising event in which the proceeds were donated to a non-profit or charity to support their work in the community.
Winner: Dance Marathon
Wolfpack Leadership Challenge Awards
The ‘Model the Way’ Award
This award recognizes an individual, program, or organization that promotes core values when setting and achieving their goals.
Winner: Emma Cathell, a senior studying social work and Spanish
The ‘Inspire a Shared Vision’ Award
This award recognizes an individual, program, or organization with the passion to make a difference. Their ability to look into the future and plan for it in the present makes them stand out above the rest.
Winner: Society of Women in Engineering
The ‘Challenge the Process’ Award
This award recognizes individuals, programs, or organizations that continuously look for new ways to challenge the status quo. Innovation, experimentation, and risk-taking are hallmarks of the applicants for this award.
Winner: UAB-Diversity Activities Board Committee
The ‘Enable Others to Act’ Award
This award recognizes individuals, programs, or organizations that bring people together in an atmosphere of respect, trust, and dignity.
Winner: Mark Tate, a senior studying business administration
The ‘Encourage the Heart’ Award
This award recognizes individuals, programs, or organizations that take great pride in the work they do, and spend time celebrating and rewarding the efforts those who make great things happen. Leaders encourage the heart by infusing hope and determination into hard work, and recognize their peers with high praise.
Winner: Tianna Soto, a senior studying psychology
Student Organization Outstanding Achievement Awards
Outstanding Student Organization Program
This award recognizes a student organization that has made a significant and meaningful contribution to students, the NC State and/or the surrounding community, and benefits its membership through support, scholarship/education, or activities.
Winner: Society of Afrikan American Culture for SAAC Week
Student Organization Award of Distinction
This award recognizes student organizations who reflect an effort to advance the social, moral, cultural, intellectual, and leadership development of individual members and/or the university community.
Winner: NC State Stewards
Student Teamwork/Collaboration
This award will be presented to the organizations that made meaningful contributions to NC State community through their collaborative programming efforts either throughout the year or a single successful program.
Winner: National Association for Mental Illness on Campus and the Order of Omega
Outstanding Online Presence
This award recognizes groups with an impressive online presence.
Winner: Alumni Association Student Ambassadors Program
Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award
This award recognizes an adviser who has had a positive impact on a student organization and the University community; consistently contributing his or her time and energy to improve the organization, and takes great strides to help the organization’s leaders.
Winner: Rebekah Dunstan, NC State Stewards adviser
Outstanding New Student Organization
This award recognizes an organization new to the campus since April 1, 2015. The organization demonstrates a progression of growth, improvement and achievement throughout the year as indicated by their programming and membership.
Winner: Girls Engineering Change
CSLEPS Awards
CSLEPS Advocate Award
Awarded to advocates that have supported the mission of CSLEPS.
Winner: Campus Enterprises
CSLEPS Award for Excellence
Given each year to an NC State senior who demonstrates outstanding leadership and service to the center and helps to advance its mission.
Winner: Amanda Dango, a senior studying mechanical engineering and Elizabeth McDonald, a senior studying biological sciences
Visionary Leader Certificates
Awarded to members of the NC State community who complete the Visionary Leaders Certificate Program. Students must have completed a minimum of 12 Leadership Development Series workshops, performed at least 20 hours of civic engagement, fulfilled a leadership component and developed a comprehensive portfolio.
Winner: Maylisa Nicholson, a graduate student studying physiology and poultry science and Salomé Froment, SKEMA participant
Ronald C. Butler Visionary Leader Award
Recognizes one Visionary Leadership Certificate program graduate for their outstanding commitment to their own leadership development.
Winner: Salomé Froment, SKEMA participant
Source: NCSU Student Involvement