Special Awards Process
The Special Awards supported by the website include:
- daVinci awards
- Renaissance awards
- Spirit of DI awards
- Project Outreach Torch Bearer awards
You can find the Special Awards wizard on the Officials menu using the awards menu pick .
The creation and approval of special awards involves:
- an official initially drafts the award
- the official submits the award for approval by the ICMs
- the ICMs review submitted awards, approve or decline each one
- an award approved by the ICMs is forwarded to the Program Directors
- the Program Directors review each icm-approved award and make the final decision
The wizard has several advantages over the old paper approach:
- since the people involved are connected by a website (internet), none of them need to be co-located
- each role in the process (drafting official, ICMs, and Program Directors) can quickly see and review awards in the pipeline
- drafting officials can see the awards they author
- ICMs can see the awards for their challenge
- team challenge ICMs see the team challenge awards for their challenge
- instant challenge ICMs see all instant challenge awards
- Program Directors can see all awards
- after the process completes, the approved awards can be distributed quickly
As a part of the Awards process, each challenge level goes through a series of states:
- Open: officials can enter awards
- Apprs-done: no new awards can be drafted, ICMs and Program Directors can finish their approval
- Done: the award process is complete
Both the ICMs and the Program Directors can control the state of individual challenge levels. Setting a challenge level to Apprs-done stops any more awards for that challenge-level being submitted. Setting a challenge level to Done tells the folks running the Closing Ceremony that the Special Awards process has ended for that challenge level.