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The Outstanding African-American Students™ Awards Program honors students from grades one through twelve. It does not include kindergarten or pre-school students.

The Official Nomination Form for the Outstanding African-American Students™ Awards Program will be available on www.topblackstudents.org starting February 1st of each year. The person seeking to nominate a student for the award will have to complete the following steps:

Download a Parent Publicity Release Agreement and have it signed

by the parent or guardian of the student being nominated; and

Complete and online Official Nomination Form citing the accomplishments

and activities of each student being nominated; and

Scan a photograph of the student and

the signed copy of the Parent Child Publicity Release Agreement

and upload them into the section designated on the online Official Nomination Form

All Nomination Forms must be submitted electronically.
If this is not feasible for your school or organization, please contact us at
 info@topblackstudents.org

The deadline for nominations is March 15th of each year.

Completed nomination forms for the Outstanding African-American Students™ Awards Program must be submitted by a youth organization sponsor, a civic, church or community leader or by a school principal, teacher, counselor or other school official. Self-nominations and/or parent nominations are not accepted. The person who nominates each student must include their name, contact number and email address on the Official Nomination Form in order that submitted information can be verified or incomplete information may be obtained.

All personal information submitted on any nomination form for the Outstanding African-American Students™ Awards Program will be treated with utmost confidence. No information regarding any student will be disseminated to any other business or organization without the written authorization of the student or parent. Home addresses and telephone numbers will not be included in the publication.

Each Nomination Form should be accompanied by a head-and-shoulders photograph of the student being nominated.  The photograph should have at least a minimum of 300 dpi resolution. The Nomination Form will ONLY accept the following image types:

pdf, zip, jpg, jpeg, png, gif, tif, tiff, psd

The Outstanding African-American Students™ Awards Program seeks to recognize the accomplishments of those African-American students who have "excelled" in various capacities. Each submitted nomination form will be evaluated according to this standard. There is no guarantee that any student will be included in the publication.

The postmark deadline for nominations for each annual edition of Outstanding African-American Students™ will be provided in the Official Nomination Form.

The deadline is usually set as March 15th of each year.

There is no limit on the number of students from any school or organization who can be nominated for the Outstanding African-American Students™ Awards Program. Therefore, each school or organization can freely nominate more than one student or member.

There is no limit on the number of times a particular student can be included in the Outstanding African-American Students™ publication. Many students who have been featured in the publication have been included in multiple editions.

All nominations submitted for Outstanding African-American Students™ are reviewed and evaluated by the local sponsoring organization in each city. Those organizations rely on the recommendations of those persons who work closely with the nominated student on a day-to-day basis. Each submitted nomination form will be thoroughly evaluated to determine if the student accomplishments are worthy of recognition.

An Award Letter announcing the selection of each student to be included in the Outstanding African-American Students™ publication will be sent to his or her parents. If applicable, the Award Letter will also include information on the time and place for the Local Awards Ceremony which is usually held in August of each year.