The Mentoring Award recognizes individuals, organizations, or groups within the Society who excel in encouraging others to reach their goals and set exemplary mentorship standards. This award celebrates those who inspire and guide fellow members, serving an impactful role in fostering professional growth and development. By highlighting outstanding mentorship, the award aims to highlight mentoring activities and recognize mentors' vital contributions to the Society's success and advancement.
Eligibility
Nominees must be current members of ASNT in good standing for at least the past five (5) years. Nominees must have made an outstanding contribution as a mentor. These contributions can be through a variety of channels or types of mentoring activities. Mentoring can be a one-to-one experience or an individual can mentor a group. Eligibility for the Award acknowledges mentoring in the following categories:
Individual: Assisting one or more individuals to reach their goals in the NDT industry that they may have not otherwise attained.
Group: Providing positive guidance to a group such that a goal of significant value to ASNT or to the NDT industry is achieved by that group.
Indirect: Providing mentoring opportunities for others by creating an environment that fosters and encourages such relationships with a positive outcome.
Selection
The Awards and Honors Council selects up to five recipients each year.
Nomination
All nominations shall be in the form of a letter with the following information:
Name, address and business affiliation of nominee.
Tangible and specific information defining how, when, and to whom the nominee has demonstrated how members have been influenced to reach goals they may have otherwise not sought or been able to reach.
The letter must clearly indicate the mentoring category (individual, group, or indirect).