Nominations for the 2013 Askins Achievement Award are now being accepted, and may be submitted until May 1, 2013. You do not have to be a member of PTN to make a nomination for the Askins Achievement Award. Nominations from previous years may be resubmitted, and are encouraged. The 2013 Askins Achievement award will be presented at IPTW 2012, Secptember 6-7, in Frederick, Maryland

The Askins Achievement Award is named in honor of the James (Jim) S. Askins the founder of the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center. The award is given in recognition of outstanding contributions and accomplishments in the promotion, education, and application of preservation trade skills. The award has been presented annually by the Preservation Trades Network since 1998 at the International Preservation Trades Workshop (IPTW). The Askins Achievement Award recognizes contributions over and above the noteworthy. The award criteria includes contributions to the preservation trades for: the continuance of traditional building skills, advocacy of training in preservation trades, practicing a building trade at master level of skill and knowledge, and extraordinary effort given to advancing the awareness of traditional building trade skills and knowledge. The nominee should be an advocate of the trades from a trades background, and have contributed efforts above and beyond the norm to help move the trades community forward. The nominee should be a person who has helped raise the bar and challenged others to try harder. The Askins Achievement Award represents more than just quality work and good ethics it also means challenging others to work for the betterment of the community around them.

Visit the PTN website to download the nomination guidelines and form and to learn more about previous recipients of the award.

http://ptn.org/askins-award.htm