Unless otherwise expressly determined by the School Board, these procedures for awarding the Wisconsin Technical Excellence Higher Education Scholarship shall apply exclusively to the scholars designated as determined by the Wisconsin Technical Excellence Scholarship criteria.
The number of seniors permitted by state law with a demonstrated exemplary level of proficiency in technical education subjects, as determined under these procedures, will be selected as the high school’s designee(s) to receive the Wisconsin Technical Excellence Scholarship. Any ties will be broken and alternates will be designated as further provided by law and in these procedures. A student who receives a Technical Excellence Scholarship is not eligible to receive a Wisconsin Academic Excellence Higher Education Scholarship, and vice versa.
The District’s designation of its scholar(s) and alternates is not a final determination that the student has met, or will meet, all applicable requirements for receipt of the scholarship funds. If a senior selected for the scholarship declines the scholarship or is determined to be ineligible for the scholarship for any lawful reason, the Wisconsin Higher Educational Aids Board (HEAB) may award the District’s scholarship to a designated alternate recipient.
DESIGNATING SCHOLARS AND ALTERNATES
Members of the District’s high school pupil services department (i.e. school counselors) and high school principal shall rank eligible students as defined in the policy.
- One (1) point is given to a student for each credit earned in high school in CTE courses, as defined above.
- One (1) point is given to a student for each year of activity in a Career and Technical Student Organization in Wisconsin. For activity in multiple CTSOs, one point is to be given for each year of participation in each CTSO.
- For the purpose of assigning a ranking among eligible candidates, credit hours in process at the time of nomination should be counted toward the number of credits the student has earned.
The following are additional mandatory scholarship eligibility criteria that are established by the District:
- Students must have submitted a formal application to a Wisconsin Technical College by the completion of the first semester of their senior year.
- As of the completion of the first semester of a student’s senior year, of the school year in which the student is competing for the scholarship, he/she must have a minimum cumulative high school grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 and a minimum GPA in his/her completed Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses of 3.00 GPA.
The high school will designate and rank [1] alternate for each designated scholar. A work team comprised of at least one high school administrator and at least one high school counselor or CTE teacher shall be responsible for reviewing the relevant records and ranking and ordering the designated scholars and alternates, including applying tie-breaking procedures to the extent necessary.
The High School Principal shall be responsible for ensuring that the District timely designates and notifies the HEAB of the District’s scholars and alternates.
HIGH SCHOOL GRADING POLICY
The District has a written high school grading system that shall be applied to the process of designating scholars and alternates for a Technical Excellence Scholarship. To the extent it is necessary to calculate a student’s overall grade point average, or grade point average in a subset of courses especially relevant to the Technical Excellence Scholarship, the high school grading system shall be applied, so far as practical, in the same manner as it is applied to calculate the student’s cumulative grade-point average as reported on the student’s high school transcript (including to the same number of decimal places).
TIE-BREAKING PROCEDURES
In the event of a tie, CTE grades become the tie-breaker. The grades used for this purpose are only those grades earned in CTE courses, not a student’s overall grade point. A student’s CTE grade point shall be calculated in the same fashion as the overall grade point average.
- The second tiebreaker will be the ACT sub-score of the student's choosing. A student may select english, mathematics, reading, or science to determine the highest subscore. The next tiebreaker will be the second, third, and fourth highest subscores in that order.
- In the event there is still a tie, a coin flip will determine the scholar.
