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AMS Club Awards

Clubs make unique and important contributions to the Queen’s community. The work that they do ranges from activities that make university feel like home, to giving back to the community, locally or globally; and much more. Each year, the Queen’s Clubs Office recognizes several clubs for their contributions and successes on campus and in the community. The awards are intended to recognize specific facets of club operation that merit recognition.

Award selection is made by the Club Awards Committee of the AMS Assembly, and presented at the annual AMS Awards Gala.

Club Awards Descriptions

Jeffrey Mccarthy Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution

This award recognizes two individuals who have made an important impact to the clubs community. These are student(s) who are members of a club or multiple clubs, who are recognized for outstanding commitment to the clubs community, and whose work would otherwise go unnoticed.

  • Jeffrey McCarthy, Con-Ed ‘12, was a Queen’s student who created Queen’s Board Game Club, was the fourth Clubs Manager, created the Clubs Awards, and won an Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award for his contributions to Queen’s.

  • Self-nominations are not accepted (any graduate or undergraduate student can nominate another student on-campus)

    Nominations must be made for contributions to AMS-ratified clubs.

Club (Group) Awards
  • Club Awards recognize the initiative, and dedication to the provision of activities/services clubs provide constitutes a new and outstanding contribution to campus.

    • Clubs must be AMS ratified 
    • Clubs must have a registered bank account
    • Clubs under not under investigation
    • Nominators are not club executives

New Club of the Year

This award recognizes a new club that has facilitated discernible growth in the club’s visibility and membership.

Open only to clubs ratified in the current academic year.

Event of the Year

This is granted to the club who hosts events which make a profound impact on the Queen’s and/or Kingston community. 

Club of the Year

This is granted to to the club that has exemplified the spirit of Queen’s and the clubs community through performing at an exceptional level.

2023-2024 Finalists
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Siena Margorian
Jeffrey McCarthy Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution
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Simarjeet Singh
Jeffrey McCarthy Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution
Congratulations to Past Club Awards Winners

Club of the Year

  • 2012-2013
    Queen’s International Affairs Association
  • 2013-2014
    Oxfam at Queen’s
  • 2014-2015
    Nyantende Foundation
  • 2015-2016
    Queen’s Space Engineering Team
  • 2016-2017
    Vogue Charity Fashion Show
  • 2017-2018
    Queen’s Machine Intelligence and Neuroevolution Design
  • 2018-2019
    Queen’s Black Academic Society (QBAS)
  • 2019-2020
    Queen’s American Sign Language (QASL)
  • 2020-2021
    TedX Queensu
  • 2021-2022
    TedX Queensu
  • 2022-2023
    Queen’s Chess Club
  • 2023-2024
    QuGujarat

New Club of the Year

  • 2012-2013
    Vinyl Appreciation Collective
  • 2013-2014
    Queen’s International Justice Mission
  • 2014-2015
    Queen’s Fashion Photography
  • 2015-2016
    Queen’s Female Leadership in Politics
  • 2016-2017
    RIOT
  • 2017-2018
    Queen’s Votes
  • 2018-2019
    Grandfriends
  • 2019-2020
    Extra Awesome
  • 2020-2021
    Smith Black Business Association
  • 2021-2022
    Save the Mothers Queen’s
  • 2022-2023
    Queen’s Black Fashion Association
  • 2023-2024
    ExtraAwesome Queen’s

Event of the Year

  • 2012-2013
    Queen’s Quidditch Club
  • 2013-2014
    Project Red
  • 2014-2015
    All the Queen’s Men
  • 2015-2016
    Queen’s International Affairs Association
  • 2016-2017
    TedX QueensU
  • 2017-2018
    Graduate Management Consulting Association
  • 2018-2019
    Queen’s Longboard Club
  • 2019-2020
    Queen’s Asian Student Association (QASA)
  • 2020-2021
    Queen’s Feminist Leaders in Politics Conference
  • 2021-2022
    Vogue Charity Fashion Show
  • 2022-2023
    NeuGeneration Queen’s
  • 2023-2024
    Association of Indian Graduate Students at Queen’s

Jeffrey McCarthy Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution

  • 2014-2015

    Marlee Satok

  • 2015-2016

    Brendan Montgomery
    Brianne Moore

  • 2016-2017

    Lauren Craik
    Mackenzie Crawford

  • 2017-2018

    Kelsey Jennings

  • 2018-2019

    Emma Miloff

  • 2019-2020

    Sonya Patel
    Chauntae de Gannes

  • 2020-2021

    Paul Smith
    Artemida Bodounova
    Renée Davies

  • 2021-2022

    Ainsley Johnstone

  • 2022-2023

    Daniel Reddy
    Cayleigh Pratt

  • 2023-2024

    Siena Margorian
    Simarjeet Singh

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