Award description
Recipients of the Robotics Annual Staff Award are chosen for their strong commitment, dependability, and extraordinary contributions, and for their efforts to create a positive and supportive culture across the Michigan Robotics community.
- Nominations will be accepted from November 5 through November 18.
- The nomination review committee will meet in late November to select the award recipients.
- Awardees will be announced at the beginning of December.
There is one recipient, who will receive a $750 award.
Criteria
Consideration will be given to nominees who have made significant contributions or demonstrated special qualities and attributes in Michigan Robotics during the preceding calendar year.
All nomination materials remain confidential. The nomination form requires a statement of up to 500 words describing the nominee’s contributions to Robotics. Nominators are strongly encouraged to provide examples to explain how these contributions align with our values.
Candidates include staff who have done one or more of the following:
- Embodied the department’s values
- Enhanced overall climate in the department
- Built collaborative partnerships or exhibited a strong sense of teamwork
- Creatively solved complicated challenges
- Excelled in overall work performance
- Helped others, above and beyond normal duties
- Demonstrated unusually strong commitment, dependability, or reliability in their work
Eligibility
- All full- and part-time regular, non-faculty employees with 12 or more months of service directly supporting Michigan Robotics (including embedded unit, college, or IT support staff).
- Temporary employees, students, and faculty are not eligible for consideration.
- Past recipients will not be eligible to receive the award again until four years after the date of their prior award (e.g., a 2025 recipient cannot win again until 2030).
Selection committee
For the first year, the committee will be composed of two Robotics staff members and one Robotics HR staff member. In following years, the most recent staff award winners and one Robotics HR staff member will serve on the committee. One award winner will serve two years to create an overlap with the next set of winners. The others will serve one year.