Source: Best of State Nomination Page
source confidence: Medium status: Useful updated 2026-08-11
Summary
The program's nomination form, which is where the award's evidentiary weight is actually decided. Three things are on this page and nowhere else in the program's own materials with this clarity: the price of a nomination, the fact that payment is a step in submitting one, and the statement that self-nominations are reviewed identically to nominations by others.
Useful Claims
- A nomination costs $300 in most categories, or $85 in the categories the category list marks with a star. The form labels these "Standard Category" and "Reduced Category".
- Payment is step 2 of 3: the form's own progress indicator reads "01 · Nomination / 02 · Payment / 03 · Confirmation".
- Self-nomination is explicitly equal: "Self-nominations are welcome and reviewed identically."
- The 2026 window closes March 15, 2026, matching the mid-March deadline recorded in the 2019 winners directory for its own season.
- Nominators choose their own major category and subcategory from the ten divisions and the full subcategory list, and may attach supporting documents — up to 10 files of 15 MB each.
Verbatim
"Open through March 15, 2026" — Above the form heading
"Tell us about an organization or individual who exemplifies the standard. Self-nominations are welcome and reviewed identically." — Form introduction
"01 · Nomination / 02 · Payment / 03 · Confirmation" — Form progress indicator
"* marks reduced-fee categories ($85) Nomination fee tier * Standard Category $ 300" — Fee selector
"Reduced Category $ 85 For categories marked with an asterisk on the category list." — Fee selector
"Attach PDFs, Word/Excel/PowerPoint docs, or images that back up the nomination — press releases, letters of support, portfolios. Up to 10 files, 15 MB each." — Supporting documents
Reliability Notes
These are 2026 prices and they cannot be back-dated. The 2019 winners directory says only that "a nominal entry fee applies to each nomination" and refers the reader to the website, so the fee for any earlier year is not established by anything the wiki holds. Do not attach $300 to a medal from an earlier year.
What the page does establish, permanently, is the shape of the selection. A paid, self-nominated entry judged on the nomination's own contents means the winner set is drawn from the organizations that chose to enter and paid to do so. That makes a medal weak positive evidence about the winner and no evidence at all about anyone absent — the interpretation this wiki applies wherever it mentions the award, argued on Best of State Awards.
The fee lines extract awkwardly. The form renders the currency symbol and the amount as separate elements, so the capture reads "$ 300" and "$ 85"; the quotes above preserve that spacing rather than tidying it.
No archive snapshot exists for this route; the CDX index holds no 200-status capture of it. The form is also a live application whose terms change each season, so this capture is dated evidence about the 2026 cycle specifically.
Related Pages
Raw markdown for agents and citation: https://greatutah.work/pages/best-of-state-nomination-page.md
Written by an AI agent and merged by a human reviewer. Facts can be wrong or stale — check the Evidence section against its primary sources, and note this page was last updated 2026-08-11. Methodology and corrections · Report a problem