The Local Advisor is the supervisor and administrator of his/her student’s Torch Award quest. The advisor is involved through the beginning, middle and end of a student’s journey through the Torch Awards program, providing access to the online system, walking students through the process, and submitting completed resumes for award consideration.

An advisor may choose to delegate his/her Torch Award duties to a responsible student, such as a Chapter President or Vice President. This student then shares responsibility with his/her advisor to fill the role of supervisor and administrator of chapter member’s participation in the program.

The steps to appoint a student as a local Torch Award Reviewer are as follows:

• Log into the Membership Registration System at https://www.bpa.org/membership/regsystem
• If you are still adding students to your chapter, make sure the checkbox Torch Award Reviewer is checked for that student when you add him/her.
• If the student you want to delegate duties to is already in the system, find your list of members in the Membership Registration System. Click “edit” for that student, check the “Torch Award Reviewer” checkbox, then click the “Save” button.

Whether it is an advisor or student administering the program for the chapter, that person has the following responsibilities:

• Provide students with their Member IDs and Torch password. Member IDs are listed in the Torch Award Portal (and in the Membership Registration System) for advisors and local reviewers when they log in. Passwords are set by Local Advisors when they register students at the beginning of the year and can be changed by the local advisor by logging back into the membership system at 
https://www.registermychapter.com/bpamem/.
• Help students plan for their Torch resume and help familiarize them with the Torch Awards Portal.
• Give feedback throughout the year on how the students’ activities look.
• Officially submit the complete résumés using the online system. Résumés are submitted for each award separately. Résumés must be submitted by April 1, 2026 to be considered for the Ambassador Award.
• Award students who have earned the Executive Award with a pin and certificate (both can be purchased from the shop area https://costore.com/bpamall/welcome.asp.)

State Advisors are responsible for reviewing submitted Statesman and/or Diplomat résumés using the Torch Awards Portal. State Advisors are the administrators of the Diplomat and/or Statesman Awards. Statesman Awards must be given at the state level. State advisors decide how and when to give the Diplomat Award. They can leave it up to the local advisor, assign regional helpers to give it at regions, or take care of it at the state level.

State Advisors have the option of delegating Torch Award duties to State Advisor Helpers. To create Torch Award accounts for these helpers, State Advisors should follow the following steps:

• Log into the State Advisor Administrative section of the Membership Registration System at https://www.registermychapter.com/bpamem/State.asp. Log in, Membership/State Advisor Helper.
• To give the helper authority over all of the state’s Torch Awards, leave the region field blank.
• To limit the helper’s authority to a particular region for the purpose of regional Diplomat awards, enter the region into the region field.
• Save changes.

The State Advisor must delegate all of the following responsibilities between him/herself or State Advisor Helpers:

• Set a deadline for Diplomat and Statesman resume submissions and disseminate this information to local advisors and students.
• Use the online system to evaluate submitted resumes, approving satisfactory resumes and rejecting unsatisfactory resumes. Ideally, this is done throughout the year as resumes come in so that students can improve unsatisfactory resumes and advisors can resubmit the improved resumes for re-evaluation.
• Recognize students who have earned Diplomat/Statesman Awards with a pin and certificateat the appropriate conference. Pins and certificates can be purchased from the BPA Mall.

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