Individual Performance Awards

It's a new year and before we go out with the old we need your help.  We are collecting the IPA forms from chapter members for the calendar year 2011.  Were you more active in the chapter this year?  If not make 2012 the year to get involved. Are you're a new member who would like to be recognized for your membership?  Check out the form to see what you've accomplished!!  You'll be surprised by what you can earn points for and our chapter needs your point to continue moving forward. 

 Complete the handy self-calculating electronic 2011 IPA Form and then email it to our Awards Chair Heather Gollnow at hgollnow@itt-tech.edu.  Deadline is soon, so please complete and return this form by April 15.

 There are LOTS of ways to accumulate points. For instance, by just being an AITP member will earn 1 point!  By attending an afternoon educational session or the after-dinner speaker you earn another 1 point for each.  Attend just one meeting you could earn 3 or more points! WOW!

 Here some other ways to earn IPA points, many of which you are doing already, but don't even realize.  Such as:

• Taking in an afternoon educational session or evening dinner speaker,
• Visiting another professional or student chapter AITP meeting,
• Being a Boy/Girl Scout computer merit badge counselor,
• Attending various AITP conferences,
• Speaking at chapter meetings, education sessions, or other business associations on IT subjects,
• Working on one of the subcommittees of the chapter,
• And many, many more!

You can earn a maximum of 45 points per year, so your participation in various chapter activities can really add up!  Please take the time this year to fill-out the 2011 Individual Performance Award Form Don't let your efforts go to waste, even if you do not care about the personal awards, our chapter earns awards and receives financial benefits from National AITP for your efforts.