Sponsored by:    Georgia Conservation Tillage Alliance

Contact:    Professional Excellence Chair

Entry Deadline:    October 19

Purpose:    To recognize GACAA members who conduct quality applied research and Extension education programs and to give members the opportunity to participate in a quality professional development event.

Eligibility:    Any GACAA member in good standing is eligible. State or district winners in other categories are strongly encouraged to participate.

Entry and Judging Criteria:   
(1) Complete an PDF Entry Form or Word Entry Form and abstract form for each entry and return by October 19th to the Professional Excellence Chair. Submit abstract electronically by e-mail or diskette and mail hard copy.

(2) Make your abstract clear and concise, as it will be used in annual meeting publication materials. All abstracts will be published. The text should not exceed 250 words. Abstracts will be prejudged for acceptability.

(3) Poster may reflect the work of one member or two or more members working together. If multiple members participate, they must be listed on the entry form. The primary presenter should sign the form. A presenter may enter only one poster per category.

(4) Posters will be on continuous display during the GACAA annual meeting and will be peer-reviewed and judged by Professional Excellence Committee.

(5) Please remember that this is an excellent opportunity to build your dossier for the new career ladder program.

(6) You should bring all your exhibit materials with you to the annual meeting. Size of the display will be 44" X 44". We will use NACAA guidelines for posters. You will need to bring your own display board and a floor easel to display posters. Complete instructions will be sent to poster contest entries.

(7) The Professional Excellence Committee will peer review and have authority to accept or reject a poster or posters upon evaluation of the abstract and entry form. The decision of the committee is final. Posters previously presented at NACAA or GACAA meetings are not eligible.

(8) Work reported in the session must have been accomplished within the past three years.

(9) There are two categories (Applied Research and Extension Educational Program). Agents will compete with agents and specialist will compete with specialist.

Award:    Participants to be recognized at GACAA Annual Meeting and receive certificates and cash awards.

Recipients must attend GACAA Annual Meeting/Professional Improvement Conference to receive awards, unless exempted by GACAA President because of extenuating circumstances. (Established by GACAA Board action, November, 2008)

Cash Award:    First Place, $200; Second place, $100; Third Place, $75

Entry Form:    You may select either the Word or PDF format: