SAMMI Awards Nomination Process
The nomination process is multi staged. It
combines a first level review by the SAMMI Awards Nomination
Committee, second level evaluation and scoring by an interview
panel, evaluation and scoring by an independent panel of
distinguished judges who do not live or work in Sammamish, and a
final weighted combination of the two sets of scores.
1. The Nomination Committee reviews and rates
each nomination received in an anonymous fashion to ensure
objectivity, and compares it with the award qualifications.
2. Then the top 5 candidates in each category
are forwarded to the Interview Committee. A different group of
interviewers is utilized for each category. The interviewers are
volunteers who reside in Sammamish. (If you are interested in
volunteering for the 2011 interviews, please contact us at
info@sammiawards.org)
3. After the interviews, the members of the
interview panels evaluate and score the nominees. The top three
candidates in each category are then forwarded to an independent
panel of judges for scoring.
4. The Awardee is determined by a weighted
combined score.
As the SAMMI Awards program grows, we receive
more and more nominations each year. This year we received many
outstanding nominations and as difficult as it is, we had to limit
the number of the nominees who would be interviewed.