Student Employee of The Year and Nominations
Student employees are what make our world go ’round! Their hard work, dedication, and overall awesomeness cannot be overstated. Each April we take a moment to recognize all they do. Supervisors also have the opportunity to nominate their most outstanding student for the Student Employee of the Year designation. The winner of this achievement is then forwarded onto our regional student employment association and the winner of the region goes onto the national organization. Below you can find all our nominated students and a bit about what makes them amazing.
Thank you to all our AMAZING students!
We wish we were celebrating together!
First Place
Tony Tien is on his third year working as a Student Assistant in Interlibrary Loan (ILL) at Arthur Lakes Library and has become a remarkable supervisor. He has updated our 20-page procedure manual into a 47-page online procedure manual, with graphic images, screenshots of the ILLiad system, and a Table of Contents. He also included verbal procedures as well, which required copyright processing and ordering requests from international libraries. His vast researching skills and critical eye has been priceless for our operations.
Second Place
Katie works in WISEM as a Vanguard Scholar Peer Mentor. She helps recruit high achieving women scholars to the Vanguard program and recruits women in general to Mines. She always is our top choice to be a panelist because of her professional demeanor and tech savvy skills in our newly virtual world. Any time our office has ran into a problem she is always able to suggest a different approach that works and gets the job done.
Third Place
Chandler works for the Mechanical Engineering Department as a front desk assistant. First of all Chandler is a trouble-shooter. Whether it is fixing a copier issue, unjamming the poster printer, or simply assisting faculty or grads with microphone issues, he is eager and able to assist. You never know what sort of questions will come up at the ME front desk, but Chandler is never fazed. He is able to take any question or concern and apply his knowledge of the school/department policies to appropriately address the situation. Well-known in the ME department he has become a reliable part of the team.
Nominees
Emily works in the Mines Geology Museum and has the patience of a saint. Emily consistently clearly communications with people from across the United States and around the globe from grade schoolers to retired geologists. With a great head on her shoulders, she is always willing to jump in and help no matter how boring or fun the project is. Emily has become one of our best quiet leaders.
CJ works in Mines Residence Life, primarily responding in writing and over the phone to variety of people within the community. CJ approaches this work with a sense of responsibility, understanding his role as an ambassador for Mines and making everyone feel heard. His work ethic truly has truly shown through this year with COVID-19, always stepping up to handle an emergency and doing a little extra every day.
Helena has provided exceptional customer service in the MME main office for three years to faculty, students and staff by answering
questions both in person and by email in a clear and friendly manner. She provides clear and accurate written updates for the Daily Blast and our website. Being a self-starter, she takes charge every time someone walks into the main office, and she doesn’t rest until their question or need is answered. We rely on her to complete tasks using various programs such as EMS, CashNet, Cognos and Excel. Overall we can always count on Helena to dive into any task requested of her with optimism and enthusiasm.
Tyler works for Campus Events assisting numerous groups using the events space within the Student Center, ensuring all their needs are met. Tyler is a great problem solver and thinks quick on his feet. He quickly moves event setups around as needed and cues in everyone as needed. He has never missed a shift and has become a role model to our other employees, being appointed a lead at the front desk.
The DECtech Outreach Program reaches girls in grades 3–12 with the intent to foster and maintain interest in the STEM subjects and Katelyn has been a great help. In her role as ACM-W Vice-President, Katelyn volunteered to recruit, organize, and manage the student volunteers for an Hour of Code event, co-hosted with a local technology company on Mines campus in January 2020. Katelyn does a wonderful job of managing six Mines websites for the Honors and Scholars program. Even with this tremendous load, Katelyn volunteers to assist in almost every activity where volunteers are requested. She has been such an amazing addition to our team.
Caleb works for SAIL and provides live training to over 200 students with a very clear style, incorporating effective verbal communication techniques and incorporating examples to serve as clarification to complex policies and procedures. He creates digital materials for presentations and trainings. he creates complex spreadsheets to calculate over 200 organizations’ budgets, and databases to keep and update the inventories of the student organizations. Caleb has built authentic personal connections with many of our students leaders in all areas of the student organizations. He makes everyone feel valued and heard.
Lindsey is very adept at delivering clear communication and instruction to Mines students and staff when working for Rec Sports. She is calm, cool and collected under pressure. Lindsey does a good job of of leading by example and finding ways to complete tasks in an efficient manner. The ultimate team player, she always contributes in staff meetings and she is very good at leading by example
Tyler works for the Mechanical Engineering Office. Tyler is an excellent communicator, not only is he clear and concise, but he is warm and friendly and instantly presents himself as an authority as well as an advocate. He is a problem solver and is able to see areas where we can use new technologies to streamline office functions. Tyler takes his positions on campus seriously, both while he is on the clock and while he is in the Mines community. He is a hard-worker who is able to balance two positions on campus while participating in many activities and working through demanding course work.
Joey has been working in the Career Canter for over 3 years. In time, he had increasing responsibilities, working with different audiences: Students visiting Career Center, staff and student assistants working in the Career Center, students taking CSM 250 class, TAs for CSM 250. As the Career Center adapted to a new, fully virtual environment, Joey suggested the department consider developing an electronic monthly newsletter to help keep student informed and up-to-date. He spear-headed this project, which has been a great help to campus response and student engagement during this stressful year. He has truly been a gift to us throughout the years and we wish him success upon his graduation.
Kate has been an exemplary resident, as well as an employee since her freshman year here at Mines! She has been an immense help in responding and addressing requests in speedy manner, always doing them with a smile. If Kate sees or hears about a concern, she knows the proper channels to go through. We will truly miss her when she graduates!
Ryan is a student leader at SAIL and in charge of training our finance aid student workers and front desk workers. He holds oral presentations every semester as well as guided trainings. We can count on him to always to do the best possible job whether supervised or unsupervised, he constantly increases the competencies of his position and the quality of what we do at SAIL. Ryan shows a high degree of cultural competency and desire to make everybody feel welcome, he has increased the sense of belonging for our remote employees and has fostered an inclusive community were differences are appreciated and valued and the leaders of our clubs and orgs can fell welcome and heard. We will miss him when he graduates.
Aric is the CCAC Lab Supply Coordinator. He has to survey the lab supplies & anticipate what is going to be needed. He was instrumental in setting up nitrile glove recycle stations in each lab, doing the work independently. Aric’s ability to work independently shows his leadership and ability to take charge. He always leads by example and is always happy to help others with their part if needed.
Lauren works for the Student Health Center, she treats all of our students/patients with care, concern and compassion. She has taken leadership roles in training other students. In the fall, she was extremely helpful to the new students – explaining immunization requirements and providing any information they may need. Lauren also creates many of our social media posts and does a wonderful job in addition to helping out in the Dental Clinic.