Submit your 2024-25 award or contest entry by September 15!

The Aktion Club award and contest season is here! Submit your entry by Monday, September 15, 2025, 11:59 p.m., ET.

2024-25 Aktion Club Awards and Contests

Apply for awards and contests this year to give members opportunities to use their skills, celebrate their officers and advisors, and share your club’s accomplishments! The deadline for award and contest entries is Monday, September 15, 2025, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

How to apply for awards and contests

  1. Review the Aktion Club Contest Guide information and rules for each award and contest you’re interested in.
  2. Review the online entry form. The form explains information you’ll need to gather and upload, the topic for the contest, and questions to answer. Use the links to each entry form below (on this webpage and in the Contest Guide).
  3. Watch the Aktion Club Advisor Chat on Awards, held on May 20, 2025, to learn more about the award and contest application process.
  4. Gather all required information, write answers to the questions (to paste into the entry form) or prepare the contest item that you’ll submit.
  5. Complete and submit the online entry forms by September 15, 2025.

Start a club YouTube or Vimeo Account 

YouTube or Vimeo are the best places to save videos that share for the Video Contest, Speech Contest or Scrapbook Contest. You’ll be able to add links to the contest entry forms. Not sure how to create a club YouTube or Vimeo account? Check out these helpful instructional videos: How to start a YouTube account or How to start a free Vimeo account. If these videos don’t answer your questions visit YouTube and Vimeo for more information.

Distinguished Club and Honor Club Awards

Each Aktion Club can earn a Distinguished Club or Honor Club award from Kiwanis International if it carries out enough of the activities listed in the Annual Achievement Report and submits a completed report. Plan to spend 30-45 minutes to complete and submit the form. If you’re unable to complete the form in one session, make sure your email information has been added to the form, then select the (save and return) button. Your work will be saved, and you’ll receive an email with a link to return to the form later.

Entry form: Annual Achievement Report

Single Service Project Award

Did your club plan and conduct an amazing service project this year with a significant impact on your school or community? Did members learn about the community and use their skills for service? If so, create a document explaining your club’s project and complete a submit an entry for your project to be recognized with a Single Service Project Award!

Entry form: Single Service Project Award

Aktion Club Contests

Contests are an opportunity to celebrate club spirit and encourage officers and members to use their skills of writing, public speaking, art, design, organization, and video making.

Involve officers and members in deciding which contests your club will participate in this year!

Entry form: Speech Contest (for individuals)

Entry form: Poster Contest (for individuals or a group)

Entry form: Scrapbook Contest (for the club)

Entry form: Video Contest (for the club)

Awards announcements and recognition items

Club advisors and Kiwanis advisors of Aktion Clubs receiving awards (and their district administrators) will be notified from Kiwanis International by mid-December. The list of awardees and winning contest entries will be posted on this webpage, on social media and in the Aktion Club newsletter in mid-January. Advisors are asked to inform their clubs, officers and members about the awards they receive.

Award certificates will be mailed to the club advisor at the Aktion Club’s address by mid-December.

Review past Aktion Club award and contest recipients!

2023-24 award recipients

2022-23 award recipients

2021-22 award recipients

2020-21 award recipients