2025 Outstanding Student Society Application

The Outstanding Student Society Award recognizes one student society for outstanding service to the profession in the areas of public education and advocacy; public service and outreach; promotion of diversity; and professional involvement.

Application Tips:

The deadline for completed applications, with all supporting documentation, is 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday, February 10, 2025. Applications and supporting materials received after this date will not be considered.
Be as complete as possible when answering the questions below.
Ensure all dates, organization names, committee titles, etc. are clearly and accurately stated.
Only electronic applications and supporting documentation will be accepted.
All materials and supporting documentation must be uploaded and submitted using the form below.
No application will be considered complete at time of submission without all supporting documentation.
All submitted documents must be in PDF format. To convert a Word document to a PDF, follow the instructions found here.
Any questions regarding the process should be emailed to AAPA staff at awards@aapa.org.

Outstanding Student Society Eligibilty:

The applying student society must be registered with AAPA. The list of registered student societies can be found here.

Save & Return

Use an account to return to saved work.

Applicant Information

The student society representative who submits this application will serve as the primary point of contact with AAPA through the remainder of the Awards process. Please include your contact information below, along with contact information for your society's faculty advisor.

PA Program: *

First Name: *

Last Name: *

Phone Number: *

Email Address: *

AAPA ID #:

Faculty Advisor First and Last Name: *

Faculty Advisor Email: *

PowerPoint Presentation

Submit a PowerPoint Presentation of your PA program's events for last year (January-December 2024) in the categories specified below. Do not include events that fall outside of that timeframe. Submit a maximum of 12 events (up to three for each category). Presentations may include only one slide per event. Programs may not reuse presentations from previous years.

Presentations must be structured in this format:

Slide 1: Name of PA program including campus/city of program
Slide 2: Table of contents. List of all events being submitted in the presentation, including category
Slide 3+: One slide for each event should include:

Slide Title: Name of Event and Category

Public education and advocacy of profession
Public service and outreach
Promotion of diversity
Professional involvement

Photo(s) from Event

Photo caption(s) – 1 sentence summary per photo

Notes Section of PowerPoint

Date of event
Impact of the event (event description and impact/influence of event) – 1 paragraph or less

*To create the best version of the PDF from a PowerPoint presentation, select the print option, print with notes pages to PDF, then save the file.

PowerPoint Presentation (PDF): *

The deadline for all completed applications is 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday, February 10, 2025. Applicants will be notified of the committee's decision in March 2025. If you have any questions about the awards or the process, please contact awards@aapa.org.

Thank you for taking part in the 2025 AAPA Awards program.