Impact Awards nominations are now open! The Impact Awards Luncheon celebrates work-based learning excellence in Indiana, and is a featured part of our annual Indiana Work-Based Learning Conference. Nominations are now open in the following categories:

• Work-Based Learner of the Year (formerly Intern of the Year): Recognizes a work-based learner that made a positive impact in their role, showed growth in leadership skills and always expressed professionalism in the workplace. There are three categories: college, high school and adult.
• Career Development Professional of the Year: Celebrates assistance to learners with work-based learning/internship opportunities, communication with learners/employers, and coaching learners on work-based learning professionalism and career development. This is broken into three categories: college, high school, and adult learner.
• Outstanding Employer of the Year: Honors a successful approach to a work-based learning program, formation of meaningful project work, and providing learners with professional mentoring and networking opportunities. Employers are permitted to nominate themselves.
• Innovative Program of the Year: This new category commemorates an Indiana organization with an inventive effort to meet workforce needs and provide meaningful work-based learning outcomes (supporting diverse populations, credentialing/educational qualifications, compensation, etc.). The organization should display a collaborative effort at the local, regional or state level. This category includes programs falling under work-based learning such as workplace simulations, apprenticeships and school-based enterprises.
• Work-Based Learning Supervisor of the Year (formerly Intern Supervisor of the Year): Recognizes a specific individual at an organization who provided their interns or work-based learners with excellent opportunities, outstanding leadership, professionalism and mentorship. This is for an individual going above and beyond the standard work expectations as a supervisor, providing learners with a variety of opportunities and possessing unique qualities that set them apart.