The first 100 students shaping
Babcock University.
A record of real contribution
Babcock 100 is not a popularity contest. It is not an awards night, a leaderboard, or a list of the most well-known students on campus. It is something more deliberate than that.
Each year, Babcock 100 identifies and publicly documents one hundred students whose contributions to Babcock University, through leadership, innovation, service, enterprise, creativity, or impact, are real, evidenced, and worth preserving.
The platform is founded and run by GDG on Campus Babcock, and is designed to grow into an institutional archive over time.
Students selected
From across all faculties, departments, and levels.
Recognition areas
Covering leadership, creativity, service, and beyond.
Public votes
Selection is criteria-based and committee-reviewed.
Archive Editions
Designed to grow year on year as institutional memory.
Because good work deserves a public record
Visibility
If you have watched someone put in years of work that nobody officially named. This is the platform that names it. Babcock 100 makes meaningful contribution visible across this campus, reaching beyond the department, the team, and the group chat.
Memory
Student achievements at Babcock fade fast. By graduation, so much of what students built, organized, and created has already started to disappear. Babcock 100 is the attempt to hold that record, so the work that happened here can still be found, read, and built on years from now.
Culture
When a campus publicly celebrates its builders, researchers, creators, and leaders, it tells students what this place actually values. Babcock 100 is how Babcock says: the work you did here mattered.
Ten ways to be part
of the class
Leadership
You know who this person is. The one who organized everyone else, showed up before anyone asked, and stayed after everyone else went home. Leadership here is evidenced in patterns over time. Rooms organized. People moved. Outcomes changed because of one person's consistent presence.
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise
Something was built, and someone paid for it, or used it, or came back for more. A product, a service, a business tested against reality and still standing. If you know a student who has been building something real, this is their category.
Arts and Performance
Music recorded and released. Collections designed and shown. Performances given to real audiences. If you know someone who has been creating original work with serious commitment behind it, they belong here.
Media and Storytelling
The journalist who chased stories the campus needed to hear. The content creator who built a platform with real readership. The editor, the producer, the writer. The people who shaped how Babcock understands itself.
Research and Scholarship
Academic work that went further than the assignment required. If you know a student conducting research, publishing findings, or contributing intellectually in ways that will outlast the semester, nominate them.
Innovation and Problem Solving
There was a broken system, and this person fixed it. A gap identified and closed. A solution that exists now because one person decided it should. Small or large, funded or not, the work just had to solve something real.
Community Building and Service
Organizations built from nothing. Communities held together when they might have fallen apart. People who show up for others in ways that ask nothing back.
Athletics and Sports
Competitive excellence on fields, courts, and tracks. The student who represented Babcock with distinction and brought something back.
Health and Social Impact
Medical outreach that reached people beyond the hospital walls. Mental health advocacy on a campus that struggles to make room for it. Social change pursued with patience and real care. If someone you know has been doing this work quietly, now is the time to name them.
Emerging Talent
First and second year students already doing what most wait until final year to attempt. If you know someone in early years who is already shaping something, they belong on this list.
Selection is never arbitrary. Every nominated student passes through a structured review before being considered for the final class.
Nomination
Anyone can nominate a student, or themselves. Nominations must include evidence and specific contribution details.
Screening
All submissions are reviewed for completeness, eligibility, and credibility. Weak or incomplete nominations are filtered.
Review
A five-member committee scores each nominee across five criteria: Impact, Initiative, Evidence, Consistency, and Potential.
Verification
Claims are independently verified where possible. Nominees flagged for concern are reviewed carefully before inclusion.
Final Class
The final 100 are curated, profiled, and published. The class is presented as a selected cohort, not a ranked list.
Nomination
Anyone can nominate a student, or themselves. Nominations must include evidence and specific contribution details.
Screening
All submissions are reviewed for completeness, eligibility, and credibility. Weak or incomplete nominations are filtered.
Review
A five-member committee scores each nominee across five criteria: Impact, Initiative, Evidence, Consistency, and Potential.
Verification
Claims are independently verified where possible. Nominees flagged for concern are reviewed carefully before inclusion.
Final Class
The final 100 are curated, profiled, and published. The class is presented as a selected cohort, not a ranked list.
Know someone who
deserves
to be seen?
Nominations are open until June 30, 2026. The process takes under ten minutes.
Submit a Nomination