Students, academics and the arts · For counselors, principals and scholarship committee members
A scholarship winners display that tells the story behind each award
Every named scholarship has a reason it exists. Show each one with its history and every student who has received it, so recipients and the families who fund them see their names together.
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What is a scholarship winners display?
A scholarship winners display is a school exhibit listing the students who received each named or local scholarship, often with the history of the award, and is usually placed in a counseling office or auditorium lobby. With HistoryShowcase, each scholarship gets a profile telling who it honors, and its recipients are listed beneath it by class year.
Updated
- Made for
- Counselors, principals and scholarship committee members
- Where schools put it
- Counseling office, Auditorium lobby, Thank-you notes to sponsors
- Layouts
- Profiles, Honors ledger, Portrait gallery, Photo gallery
- Visitors can filter by
- Scholarship, Year
- Cost
- Free to use. No payment details required.
A name read aloud once a year
Senior awards night moves quickly. The counselor reads the name of each scholarship, a student walks up, and the next one is announced. The families who created those scholarships, often in memory of a teacher, a coach or a son or daughter, hear the name for a few seconds. The story behind it stays in a folder in the counseling office.
A scholarship winners display gives each scholarship a page of its own: who it honors, when it started and what the committee looks for. Under it sits every student who has received it. Seniors applying next year see the scholarships available to them, and past recipients can find their names years later.
How does a scholarship winners display compare with perpetual plaques?
| What matters | Perpetual plaques | HistoryShowcase |
|---|---|---|
| Story behind the award | A title and perhaps a dedication line | A profile on who it honors and why |
| Adding this year’s recipient | Engrave the next nameplate | Add a row and publish after awards night |
| Room for many scholarships | One plaque per award on the wall | One searchable collection per scholarship |
| Showing sponsoring families | Seen when they visit the building | Shared by web address in thank-you notes |
| Feel in the hallway | Physical and lasting | Interactive on a touchscreen |
What goes on a scholarship winners display
Each named scholarship
A profile for every scholarship with the person or group it honors, the year it began and its criteria in plain words.
This year’s recipients
The seniors honored at this spring’s awards night, published once your school is ready to announce them.
Recipients by year
Every past recipient listed under their scholarship and their class year, as far back as your programs go.
Photos of the presenters
Families and committee members presenting awards on stage, with permission from the people pictured.
Awards night programs
A scan of each year’s printed program, which often holds the only complete list for older years.
How to organize scholarships and recipients
Make each scholarship a story, then list its recipients in the collection beneath it. A yearly winners list helps families on awards night.
Your siteScholarships
- Named scholarshipsProfiles
One profile per scholarship with its history and criteria.
- Recipients by scholarshipHonors ledger
A sub-collection per scholarship, one row per recipient and year.
- This year’s winnersPortrait gallery
Senior portraits for the current class, featured after awards night.
- Awards night archivePhoto gallery
Program scans and ceremony photos by year.
Visitors can narrow it by
- Scholarship
- Year
How do you set up a scholarship winners display?
Write up each scholarship first
Ask the counseling office or each sponsoring family for a few sentences about who the scholarship honors.
Let Smart Add read old programs
Upload past awards night programs, and Smart Add suggests recipient entries with their sources for you to review.
Publish after the ceremony
Keep this year’s winners in a private draft and publish once the awards have been announced.
Where should a scholarship winners display go?
- Counseling officeJuniors and seniors see which scholarships exist while they wait for appointments.
- Auditorium lobbyFamilies browse it before and after senior awards night.
- Thank-you notes to sponsorsInclude the display’s web address so sponsoring families can see every recipient.
Scholarship winners display questions
Can we keep winners hidden until awards night?
Yes. Add them to a private draft before the ceremony and publish afterward. Nothing appears on the screen until someone with publishing access publishes it.
Should we show donors too?
Each scholarship’s profile can say who created it, if they want to be named. For a fuller donor wall, a separate donor collection works well alongside this one.
We award dozens of scholarships. Will it get cluttered?
Each scholarship has its own collection, and visitors can search by name or filter by scholarship and year.
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