Golden School Awards: Prepare Your Entries
Time to gather your entry materials!
What Are The Golden School Awards?
The American Association of Cosmetology Schools (AACS) Golden School Awards recognize the best beauty, barber, and wellness schools that our sector has to offer. You can enter your school in one or all of the categories. The school that receives the highest score in each category will be named “Winner” in that category.
Winners will be announced at the AACS Annual Conference, October 25-27, in Houston.
How to Enter
Entering the Golden School Awards is easier than ever - just follow these steps:
- Pay one flat fee of $149 (per campus) to enter as many categories as you like.
- Review the planning document, gather your submission materials and submit it to the online submission portal between August 16-23, 2024.
- Attend the AACS Annual Conference, October 25-27, in Houston, to find out if you won!
What are the Benefits of Winning a Golden School Award?
- Bragging rights: Receive a trophy to display on campus and boost your school’s reputation. Announce your win and show off your award!
- Increase your leads: Receive a digital badge to add to your website/social media (adding a digital badge to the landing page of a paid ad has proven to increase leads by 37.25%).
- Recognition: Be recognized by AACS in publications, website, and social media.
- Increase morale: Celebrate your hard-working staff, leadership, and educators.
- Recruit new staff: Use your win to help recruit staff.
How are Entries Judged?
Judging will be based on the materials you submit. Responses should be thorough and descriptive. When applicable, submit any supporting documentation including quantitative numbers/statistics, pictures, videos, screenshots, social media posts, and any other materials that support your submission.
No one knows your campus like you! The judges will be looking at your submission based on the judging criteria. We encourage you to submit media such as photos, video, etc. to strengthen your application. We recommend you refer to the 2024 GSA Planning Document & Categories Judging Criteria to help you plan your entries.
Ready to Enter?
Head to myAACS.org to purchase your entry and begin prepping your submission materials! Remember, the Golden School Awards are open to AACS members only (you must have a member account and be logged in to purchase the entry).
