Awards
Superintendent's Award
1. The Lewis & Clark Conference acknowledges the importance of an academic education in conjunction with extra and co-curricular activities. The conference has established a scholastic recognition division to its program of activities.
2. Student Eligibility:
a. Students must be a bona fide student in grades 11 and 12.
b. A student may only be awarded this recognition once and will be awarded a medal and
certificate.
c. The medal will be engraved “SCHOLASTIC ALL-CONFERENCE”
d. Students will receive recognition as an all-conference academic.
e. The level of achievement will be a composite score of twenty-eight (28) on the ACT test.
f. Verification of test scores must be in the hands of the conference president at least seven (7)
days prior to the April meeting of the executive council.
g. Recommended by Superintendent.
h. Must be involved in one conference activity.
2019-20 2024-25
Principal's Award
1. This award is given only to Juniors and Seniors who have an accumulative G.P.A. (cumulative from
9th through 12th grade) of 3.5 or higher and must be involved in one conference activity.
2. Procedure:
a. Conference principals will send a list of qualifying students to the conference president at least
seven (7) days prior to the April meeting of the executive council.
b. The conference president who will compile the recipient’s names and forward to the following
newspapers and all principals: Norfolk Daily News and Omaha World Herald
c. The conference president will send awarded medallions back to the principals for distribution to
qualifying students.
3. Individual principals will have the responsibility of forwarding the same information to their respective
local newspapers.
4. Seniors who are repeating award winners should be noted in all news releases as such.
2019-20 2024-25
Jim Winch Award
The Jim Winch Award will honor a person selected by their school for outstanding service to their school or to the conference. Each school district will be allowed to annually select one individual to receive this award of their own choosing. Schools are to have the name of their recipient and a brief biography (why are they receiving this award) to the conference President by December 15th. The Jim Winch Award will be presented at half time of the conference basketball tournament.