2026 Updated Award Guidelines
- Students who show up for school have a much better chance of doing well in school and will have developed the discipline to show up for work after they graduate. This award motivates students to show up at school every day.
- The award is given to students who show up on time and have the least amount of absences during the school year. For this award, review your students’ attendance records.
- If you have one student who has stellar attendance in their grade, you have your winner. Otherwise, randomly select a winner for each grade (10, 11, and 12 ) from your students with the best attendance record.
- It’s important for students to gain STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) related skills to succeed in life and careers. TCP wants to encourage all students to not only take STEM classes but also do their best to succeed in them.
- If your school is an AVTS or CTC, students taking courses in cosmetology, graphic arts, construction, carpentry, IT, and healthcare-related subjects would be eligible. This award motivates students to take and excel in STEM-related classes. This award is given to students who are your school’s top performers in STEM-related courses.
- For this award, identify your STEM-related classes and select the top performers in each grade. ALL students taking a science, technology, engineering, or math-related class should be considered. Draw a winner’s name for each grade from your list of top performers.
- Students who give back to their communities develop passions and skills that not only support their personal and career success but also increase their likelihood of making a lasting, positive impact on their communities. This award motivates students to do community service.
- This award is given to students who turn in the most community service hours. Encourage your students to record and turn in their community service hours! Use this form (Click here for the form) or any method acceptable by your school for verifying service hours.
- For this award, review the community service hour records of your students and draw the winners’ names from the students with the most service hours in each grade.
- The upper 10% of students with the greatest increase in their GPA from the previous year to the current year ending, regardless of their beginning GPA, are eligible for the academic improvement award. This award allows struggling students to improve their habits and their grades.
- Developing the habit to try their best is a habit that will serve students well in all areas of life. This award motivates students of all academic levels to put in the effort to improve their grades. This is an award that every student can strive towards. Any student who works hard to improve is eligible, whether they improve from failing to passing or from a good grade to an excellent grade.
- Review your students’ grade point averages and select the students whose grades have improved the most. If you have a student who has clearly improved the most, that student should be the winner for that grade (10, 11, and 12 ) from your students with the most improvement.
- Students in the top 10% with the highest overall GPA from the beginning to the end of the current school term are eligible for the academic excellence award. Students who achieve academic excellence have developed habits to work hard, stay focused, and manage time.
- These habits will serve them in any educational or career pursuit they choose. This award motivates students to aim to do their very best.
- This award is for your top-performing students. Review your students’ GPAs and draw a winner for each grade from the top performers.
Selecting Award Recipients
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At the Kickoff Assembly in the Fall Juniors and Seniors will receive awards based on their performance during the last school year as Sophomores and Juniors.
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In the Spring Seniors will receive their TCP awards based on their performance from the 1st to the 3rd marking period of this current school year.
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Award finalists are selected from a group of eligible students in the top of each award category. You must select 1 award winner for each category, per grade.
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The educator coordinating the awards can place the names of eligible students in a drawing for each award category to select the final recipient. If a student qualifies for more than one category, simply resubmit their name.
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To submit award recipients click the appropriate button below.