QUALIFICATION PERIOD
Activities completed between August 31, 2017 and February 15, 2018 (11:59 PM EST) can be counted toward this award.
ELIGIBILITY
All applicants must be in good standing with Business Professionals of America. This award is open to members in the Middle Level, Post- Secondary and Secondary Divisions. The member must earn a minimum of five points. The winners will be decided based on a point system. Every member recruited is worth one point. Every new chapter recruited at the Middle, Secondary, or Post-Secondary level is worth 15 points in addition to one point for every member recruited in the new chapter. The newly recruited members and chapter(s) must be listed on the application with their membership identification numbers (assigned by the BPA Online Membership Registration System). The local chapter advisor must verify electronically that the applicant recruited the listed members and chapter(s). The new chapter’s school name, division, and date formed must be listed. The recruited chapter can be in any division, not restricted to the applicant’s division only. New members are also eligible to apply for this award once registered as national members. A BPA member can receive this national award once annually. New members are members who have not held previous membership in Business Professionals of America, and new chapters are chapters which were not in active membership status in the previous three membership years in BPA.
SUBMISSION
Applications must be submitted utilizing the online application.
Submission applications must include all activity descriptions. Partial applications will not be
accepted or combined. Do not begin the application online submission form until you have
completed all activities.
Applications due April 1.
GENERAL INFORMATION
RECOGNITION
BPA Recruiter of the Year Award: Approved applicants will receive a Certificate of
Achievement. Each year the applicant with the most amount of recruiter points received, based
on the above criteria, in their division will be recognized with a plaque as National Recruiter of
the Year at a General Session during the NLC.
NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY
It is the policy of Business Professionals of America that no person on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, or disability shall be discriminated against, excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to, discrimination in any program or activity for which it is responsible.
