2020
Running for over twenty years, the Student Evaluation Case Competition is a two-round annual Canadian competition that helps post-secondary students build and showcase their program evaluation skills. Through the use of real-world programs and cases, students work in teams to respond to a request for proposals over a limited time period.
Cassandra Parsons
James Young
Lulu Li
Natasha Vitkin
Stephanie Liu
Coach : Beth Snow
Congratulations Kathryn Radford
Service to CES Award (2020)
Michael Obrecht presented the award - with a SONG.
Kathryn accepted the honour via video
I am very honoured to be receiving the Service to Society Award this evening.
As a long-time volunteer with the CES-CESEF Student Evaluation Case Competition, I have worn many hats over the years. I became involved in the Case Competition in 2010 when I was finishing a graduate certificate in program evaluation at the University of Ottawa.
Brad Cousins was my team’s coach and my team successfully competed in both rounds and “brought home the hardware” as Brad liked to say, at the Victoria, BC conference. I was so enamoured by the competition that I approached Bea Courtney and asked to volunteer. Since 2010, I’ve been a judge many times, co-ordinator of the judges, member of the case development committee, co-chair (learning the ropes from my mentor Bea) and now chair.
I would like to thank the many people who helped me get here this evening;
· Bea Courtney for everything she taught me about the case comp
· Michael Obrecht for inventing the case comp and for nominating me, along with Bear for this award
· My sincere thanks to François Dumaine and Martine Perrault for all their support along the way and for their support of my nomination
· And for the tireless devotion of the Case Comp working group, without whom there would be no case comp
o Brian McGowan
o Michael Heimlick
o Christine Sheppard
o Michelle Naimi
o Tin Vo
o Samantha Inwood
o Mikki Campbell
o Marla Steinberg
· Thank you so much for this honour.
A few more words ...
By Benoît Gauthier to all:
Well deserved, Kathryn. Your leadership style is very effective in keeping the case competition on track. Cheers!
By Isabelle Bourgeois to all
Great song, Michael!
By Larry Bremner to all:
Kathryn, so well deserved. Congratulations - with a big, beautiful smile day after day - your work is important - so important
By Michelle Naimi to all:
I love the song !! Congratulations Kathryn!
Kathryn is also helped to establish the CES Mentoring program.
She and the team presented at c2011 in Edmonton
Evaluators who volunteered their time to develop a National Mentoring Program for
Evaluators (NMPE) in Canada. Based in three cities, we initiated efforts separately and came together as a group in the spring of 2009.
Photo credit: Judy Lifshitz
From right to left: Kathryn Radford, Lisa O’Reilly, Dominique Leonard, James Coyle, Lisa Styles, Jane Whynot, and Natalya Kuziak.
Not shown: Judy Lifshitz
In most year's, CES would host an awards luncheon as a part of the annual conference. The Awards Luncheon is one of the many features of the conference that we are all missing following its pandemic-related cancellation. CES will highlight each honouree in turn in the coming weeks - in this newsletter and across our online footprint.
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