Award Categories:
Agency of the Year: This award category highlights the impact of your agency throughout your community. Focusing on programs, quality of life and wellness, safety and innovation this award recognizes outstanding aquatic agencies throughout North Texas.
- Population Count of your Agency
- Mailing Address of your Agency
- Description of your Agency and its programs
- What is the mission of your Agency and how have you met that?
- What sets your Agency apart from others in surrounding communities?
- Why does your Agency deserve recognition?
- Please share any additional information that will be helpful in evaluating your Agency.
Program of the Year: This award category highlights a program that significantly impacts the youth and families within your community.
- Program Description
- Program specifics
- Why does your Program deserve recognition?
- Please share any additional information that will be helpful in evaluating your Program.
Special Event of the Year: This award category highlights a special event that is provided to your community.
- Special Event Description
- Special Event specifics
- Why does your Special Event deserve recognition?
- Please share any additional information that will be helpful in evaluating your Special Event.
Drowning Prevention Education & Water Safety Outreach Award: This award category honors an agency who makes significant contributions to their community through education, service and volunteerism outside of their typical swimming lessons. Focusing on drowning prevention education and water safety outreach efforts, this award recognizes an aquatic agency for their education and exceptional dedication and outreach to their community and associations.
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What types of community education programs to you provide for children?
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What types of community education programs do you provide for adults?
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How does your agency strengthen your staff’s individual knowledge and skills to assist in drowning prevention and water safety outreach?
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How does your agency promote community education?
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What is your social media presence for water safety and drowning prevention?
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How many people do you reach? Provide shares, likes, views
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Name the different means your agency provides educational support to your surrounding community. (e.g. Guest speaking at conferences, in-person meetings, virtual offerings)
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Please provide any additional metrics that help support the impact and significance of your community outreach. (e.g. the number of participants in online/virtual offering, number of visitation to educational classes/meetings)
Aquatic Professional Award: This award category recognizes an individual who is actively involved in NTAA and has been responsible for exemplary advancement in Aquatic programs in his/her city, community or region.
- Name of Aquatic Professional
- Relationship to the Nominee
- Employment History - brief chronological review of nominee's employment history, number of years in each position, brief description of the nominee's present duties and responsibilities including the scope of his/her work.
- Professional Achievement - A description of the nominee's specific accomplishments related to the aquatic field. This description should make clear the significance of the achievement and the nominee's specific role.
- Community Involvement - The nominee's significant community service (whether with or outside of the aquatics profession) which has had an important impact on the community.
- Please share any additional information that will help in the evaluation of your nominee.
Maintenance Achievement Award: This award category recognizes creativity or innovation in the development of unique equipment to solve a particular problem, the development and implementation of a system or process to maintain a park, building, pool or piece of equipment more efficiently or effectively.
- Name of Maintenance Professional
- Relationship to the Nominee
- Employment History - brief chronological review of nominee's employment history, number of years in each position, brief description of the nominee's present duties and responsibilities including the scope of his/her work.
- Professional Achievement - A description of the nominee's specific accomplishments related to the maintenance field. This description should make clear the significance of the achievement and the nominee's specific role.
- Innovation - How has the nominee's creativity or innovation impacted your agency, programs or community?
- Please share any additional information that will help in the evaluation of your nominee.