The Honor Lodge Award was established in order to recognize the current year’s premier lodge in the Section. This award is given to the lodge that obtains the most points throughout the year as identified below. This award is separated into three categories: general, participation and competitions. Each lodge will be required to submit the Honor Lodge Service Form to the Section Recognitions Chairman no later than the Friday evening Council of Chiefs (COC) meeting at Conclave for the service portion of this award. Each lodge will be allowed to review their individual point tallies during the Saturday evening COC at Conclave.
- Achieve Performance Measurement Program Standards*:
- Thriving (75)
- Must earn at least 16 grand points, of which at least 8 must be from primary objectives.
- High Performing (85)
- Must earn at least 24 grand points, of which at least 12 must be from primary objectives.
*PMP Standards for a lodge can be found on the National OA site.
- NLS Participation when offered (25)
- Percent of Lodge membership attending Conclave (10)
- Awarded by percentage of goal completed - rounding down to the nearest 10% and treating each 10% as a milestone. Percentage of goal completed is multiplied by 10 to get points.
- Example: Lodge reaches 68% of their attendance goal, so they are awarded 60% of the total 10 points, thus the lodge receives 6 points.
- 200%, or 20 points, MAXIMUM
- Attendance goal based off of the goal of 900 people in attendance at the 2023 Conclave: Tsoiotsi Tsogalii (184), Occoneechee (265), Croatan (171), Wahissa (149), Nayawin Rar (50), Klahican (81).
- Service to Council
- Based upon man-hours*
- 1-5 (10)
- 5-10 (25)
- 10-15 (50)
- 16+ (75)
*Man-hours = hours of service divided by lodge membership
- Service to Community
- Based upon man-hours*
- 1-5 (10)
- 5-10 (25)
- 10-15 (50)
- 16+ (75)
*Man-hours = hours of service divided by lodge membership
- National High Adventure Programs
- 20 points will be awarded by sending one Arrowman to any of the following programs, not 20 points per program.
- OA Trail Crew, OA Wilderness Voyage, OA Ocean Adventure, OA Canadian Odyssey, OA Summit Experience
- Canned Food Drive
- Apensuwi E-Newsletter articles submitted to Section Secretary on time (5)
- Fall Council of Chiefs participation
- All members of Lodge Key 3 must be present (5)
- Lodge program responsibilities submitted to Section VC of Program on-time (5)
- Copy of Lodge Charter renewal submitted to Section Adviser on time (5)
- Copy of Lodge calendar submitted to Section Secretary on time (5)
- Founders Award recipients submitted to Section Recognitions Chairman (5)
- Participation in Section training of emphasis (5)
- Participation in Section Training with 10 or more lodge members. If less than 10 people attend, then the number of members will be taken as a percentage and multiplied by the total points available.
- Assigned A-List activities completed (10)
- Lodge participation in Ceremony Competition (10)
- Lodge participation in Quest for the Golden Arrow (10)
- Friday evening Council of Chiefs participation (5)
- All members of Key 3 must be present
- Saturday evening Council of Chiefs participation (5)
- All members of Key 3 must be present
- Lodge entry in Communications Award competition (5)
- Honor Lodge Service Record Form into Section Recognitions Chairman on time
- Turn in by Friday night of Council of Chiefs (5)
- First place in the Quest for the Golden Arrow (20)
- Achieve “Honor Team” Status in Pre-Ordeal Ceremony Evaluation (10)
- Achieve “Honor Team” Status in Brotherhood Ceremony Evaluation (10)
- Achieve “Exemplar Team” Status in Pre-Ordeal Ceremony Evaluation (20)
- Achieve “Exemplar Team” Status in Brotherhood Ceremony Evaluation (20)
- Achieve Effective Section Communication Award for website (10)
- Achieve Effective Section Communication Award for newsletter (10)
- Win Conclave Spirit Award (20)
- Win ICE Award (10)