<p>Anyone know of any good awards? I dont know of any and I want to try and get one.</p>
<p>Most awards just come from what you do normally.</p>
<p>What areas are you interested in? What level award are you looking for? Academic or EC? What grade are you in?</p>
<p>Your best bet is to use Google, your friends, your GC, and your teachers to find good competitions that you could place in. You can't really try to win awards because, you know, they're awarded. You can enter and win competitions, though.</p>
<p>I know, I just want to know some academic ones/business ones maybe?</p>
<p>Try getting a medal at an international Olympiad. I think that matters more than many other types of awards.</p>
<p>You can't just "get a medal at an Int. Olympiad." It ain't that simple. You gotta study and practice and work at it for months and months and months and months and months before you can ever even qualify to go. Don't think like it's something you can just "try getting" really quickly to bolster your application.</p>
<p>UltimateFrisbee, thank you for such a good depiction of the process... ironically, I happen to have won such a Medal, so I know all the things that are involved in the process of winning one.
The reason why I wrote it flat and simple as "get a medal at an Int. Olympiad." is because excel asked a simple question, not giving much detail of how much time or effort he/she is willing to put into it.
Actually, I think you cannot get a medal at any Int'l Olymp. just because you want one, for the simple reason that you will probably quit rather than fight to the end. You need to really like that subject in order to be good enough at it.</p>
<p>I suggest you try for a trophy. No, a pizza. Or maybe a pizza trophy.</p>
<p>/hsr</p>