Tell students when you nominate them for awards! Read time: 10 minutes
![Image of a poll with data about student interest in knowing about awards they were nominated for. The results are not clearly visible.](../images/blog/2020-10-tell-students-about-awards/TwitterPoll.png)
Anecdotally, I find that advisors and mentors do not tell students when the advisor nominates a student for an award, instead they only tell students when the students win. I anticipated that students might want to know when they were nominated, so I conducted a poll on Twitter to test this hypothesis.