🏆 2025 Be Excellent Award – Selection Criteria
To ensure fairness and inclusivity, the Be Excellent Award will be based on a mix of quantitative participation and qualitative recognition throughout the Summer of Excellence. Points or nominations can be tracked in each category:
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🔥 Engagement & Participation
• Most Activity Badges Earned – Recognizes consistent involvement across all Summer of Excellence weeks.
• Core Value Connection: Raise the Bar – Demonstrates consistent effort to go beyond expectations each week.
• Attended All/ Majority Core Value Weeks – Logged participation in at least one activity for each value week.
Core Value Connection: Find Balance – Shows dedication to participating across diverse weekly themes while managing responsibilities.
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🌟 Recognition by Peers
• Most Peer Shout-Outs Received – Recognized frequently by coworkers for representing core values.
Core Value Connection: Be a Team – Recognized by peers for supporting, collaborating, and uplifting others.
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🎨 Creativity & Spirit
• Top “Camp Spirit” Vibe – Embodied the camp theme through costume, humor, storytelling, or enthusiasm.
• Work Smart – Took the theme and ran with it in clever, meaningful, and fun ways.
• Most Original Take on a Core Value – Found a unique way to express or demonstrate one of DISA’s core values.
Core Value Connection: Value Your Customer – Applied our values in new, audience-centered, or innovative ways.
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💪 Consistency & Leadership
Supported Others – Known for cheering on teammates, helping them participate, or encouraging wider engagement.
•Core Value Connection: Be a Team – Lifted others up, encouraged inclusivity, and spread positive momentum.
•Cross-Team Champion – Helped bring participation across different departments, locations, or teams.
Core Value Connection: One Team, One Future, One DISA (honorary tie to all values) – Fostered unity, inclusivity, and value-based collaboration across departments and regions.