WICT New England Wins Three Chapter Awards at the National Level!

• Chapter of the Year Award
• WICT Inspire Award
• Best Programming (2nd place)

The "Chapter of the Year" award was presented to the TOP performing Chapter that accumulated the highest number of points possible as determined by the 2009 WICT Model Chapter Business Plan. Our chapter earned 100 points on all of our activities this year! That is a perfect score.

The "WICT Inspire" Award was given to all the chapters that received 85 points or more on their Model Chapter Business Plan. This included meeting the Inspire criteria in 5 areas: 1) Membership, 2) Programming, 3) Financial, 4) Governance, 5) Participation, and 6) Branding. There were 15 chapters to receive this award.

The "Best Chapter Programming of the Year" was recognized at three levels: first, second and third place. The requirements included the Chapter's achievements in the areas of: Creativity, Innovation, Program attendance, Diversity - both in topic and content and Support of the WICT mission. WICT New England received 2nd place.

All recognition of the above is a clear result of our collective participation, dedication and engagement in all that took place this year. Thank you-and congratulations to everyone for a banner year!