Run Your Student Awards,
From Call for Entries to Ceremony.
AwardKit is built for the juried programs universities run every term: student awards, scholarship competitions, and capstone showcases. Collect submissions with custom forms, let faculty and industry judges score from any device with no accounts, and reveal live ranked results at your showcase or ceremony. Self-serve from day one, no demo required.
No credit card. Build free, pay only to go live. No demo required.
- Unlimited award programs
- Custom submission forms with tracks
- Multi-round weighted-rubric judging
- Judges score from any device, no accounts
- Live ranked results and certificates
Build for free, pay only when you go live. No demo required.
University awards and student competition software, built for the academic cycle
AwardKit is university awards and student competition software for departments, faculties, and student-facing programs that run juried awards, scholarship competitions, and showcases on an academic cycle.
From the call for entries through judging to the live results reveal, you manage the whole program in one workspace: build custom submission forms, run multi-round weighted-rubric judging with faculty and industry jurors, organize entries by track or department, and publish a public results page. When an application or entry fee applies, it is collected through your own Stripe account with zero commission.
There is no sales demo to schedule and no commission taken out of your program. Build and test everything for free, then pay a flat annual price only when you are ready to open submissions. AwardKit has been used to run a university engineering capstone showcase with live judging; see more on our customer stories.
One flow, from submission
to the live results reveal
Built for the way a juried showcase or awards ceremony actually runs. Students submit ahead of time, judges score from any device with no accounts, and ranked results go live at the moment that matters.
Students submit their work
Entries, projects, and supporting files come in through one custom submission form, organized by track or department.
Faculty and industry judges score
Jurors open a personal link and score from any device, with no accounts and no training. Scores aggregate live as they go.
Live ranked results revealed
Reveal ranked finalists and winners on a public results page at the showcase or ceremony. Honorees receive verifiable certificates.
What faculty tell us about their current setup
The committee approved the award. Then the tooling got in the way.
Submissions and scoring live in Google Forms and spreadsheets
Students submit through a form, files end up scattered across a drive, and faculty score in a shared spreadsheet that breaks the moment two judges open it at once. Tallying finalists by hand the night before the ceremony is nobody’s idea of a fair process.
Judges will not create yet another account
Your jurors are busy faculty and industry volunteers. Asking them to register, set a password, and learn a clunky portal just to score a handful of entries means half of them never finish, and you chase the rest by email.
You rebuild the same program every term
The award runs on the same cycle with mostly the same tracks, rubric, and categories. Last time that meant a fresh form, a new spreadsheet, and re-briefing judges on a process they had already forgotten.
How it works
From a blank workspace to published winners, without a sales call in between.
Build your program for free
Create the program, add your categories, build the entry form, set per-category fees, and configure your judging rubric. Everything is free to build and test before you go live.
Open submissions and collect entry fees
Share the submission link. Entrants complete your form and pay the entry fee, which lands directly in your own Stripe account with zero commission.
Judge with your committee
Assign judges to categories, run one or more rounds with weighted criteria, and watch scores aggregate into a live leaderboard. No spreadsheets, no manual tallying.
Publish winners and report
Announce winners on a public results page when you are ready, issue certificates, and export entries, revenue, and judge participation for your board report.
Live ranked results, ready for the ceremony
When judging closes, scores aggregate into a live leaderboard of ranked entries with assigned awards. Shortlist finalists, confirm winners, and publish a polished public results page the moment you are ready to reveal them.
What your award program looks like on AwardKit
Launch without talking to sales
Build your entire program for free: tracks, custom submission forms, rubric, and jurors. You only pay when you take the program live and open submissions. No demo, no quote, no procurement back-and-forth.
Faculty and industry judges score with no accounts
Jurors receive a personal link and start scoring immediately from a laptop, tablet, or phone. No signup, no password, no training. The same is true for students on the submission side.
One flat price, every program you run
A single $1,995 per year workspace covers unlimited programs. Run your design award, your scholarship competition, and your capstone showcase side by side, across departments, with no per-program fees.
Judge with your committee’s rubric
Configure weighted criteria, run multiple rounds, and assign jurors to the tracks they cover. Scores aggregate automatically into a live leaderboard, so the committee shortlists from ranked results, not a spreadsheet.
Reveal live ranked results at the ceremony
Publish a polished public results page when you are ready and reveal ranked finalists and winners live at the showcase or ceremony. Every honoree can receive a verifiable certificate to share.
Clone last term and reopen in minutes
Awards recur each cycle. Duplicate the previous run, adjust the dates and tracks, and reopen submissions. Your rubric, categories, and structure carry over so you are not rebuilding from a blank page.
Every student award program, one workspace
Run as many of these as you like at no extra cost. Each gets its own tracks, rubric, and jurors, across any department.
Scholarship competition
A juried scholarship program with an application form, supporting document uploads, and a faculty review panel that scores against a rubric to select recipients.
Student film & creative award
A creative competition for film, media, and arts students, with video and portfolio uploads and a panel of faculty and industry jurors scoring on shared criteria.
Juried capstone / senior showcase
Senior and capstone projects submitted for review, scored live by faculty and industry judges from any device, with ranked results revealed at the showcase.
Research poster award
A poster competition for a research symposium, with abstract submissions, per-track categories, and jurors scoring on-site from their phones during the session.
Student design award
A design competition across studios or programs, with project uploads, weighted criteria, and a shortlist round before finalists are announced.
Departmental excellence / student of the year
Recognition for outstanding students within a department, with nominations, supporting evidence, and a small committee shortlist round.
Built for juried student programs
The pieces a recurring student award actually needs, ready out of the box.
Custom submission forms
Build the entry or application form your program requires, with the fields, file uploads, and eligibility questions your committee asks for.
Tracks and per-department categories
Organize entries into tracks, categories, or departments, each with its own rubric and assigned jurors, all inside one program.
Weighted, multi-round judging
Custom criteria and weights, multiple rounds, and per-track judge assignment for panels of any size, from a single reviewer to a full faculty committee.
Friction free for students and judges
Students submit and jurors score without fighting the tool.
A modern submission experience
A clean, fast entry flow that reflects well on your department, not a 2010s portal students dread logging into.
Judges score from any device, no accounts
Faculty and industry jurors open a personal link and score from a laptop, tablet, or phone, with no signup and a simple interface that needs no training.
Optional application or entry fees
When a program charges a fee, collect it through your institution’s own Stripe account via Stripe Connect, with zero commission and no middleman.
From shortlist to ceremony
The follow-up work that usually eats a week, handled.
Live ranked results
Scores aggregate into a live leaderboard, so you shortlist finalists and reveal ranked winners at the showcase or ceremony with confidence.
Certificates for honorees
Every winner and finalist can receive a verifiable certificate they can add to a portfolio or share with their own network.
CSV export for reporting
Export entries, scores, and judge participation to CSV for your department report and next term’s planning conversation.
See what you would pay elsewhere
Most platforms charge per program or take a commission on entry fees. Estimate your cost across every major platform against AwardKit’s flat $1,995 a year.
Keep exploring
Award program planning guide
A step-by-step guide to scoping, launching, and running an award program end to end.
Compare AwardKit to alternatives
See how AwardKit stacks up against Award Force, OpenWater, Submittable, and more.
How judging works
Weighted rubrics, multiple rounds, judge assignment, and live results explained.
Pricing
Flat $1,995 per year, unlimited programs, zero commission. Build free, pay to go live.
Questions universities ask
Open Your Call for Entries This Week, Not Next Term.
Build your student award, scholarship, or showcase for free and pay only when you go live. Flat $1,995/year, unlimited programs, judges score from any device. No demo required.
No credit card. Build free, pay only to go live. No demo required.