The Academic All Star program is designed to recognize students who have exhibited academic achievement and who promote academic excellence throughout the State of Ohio.

Each month, we will recognize a different student based on a variety of criteria, such as improvement in academics, leadership abilities, citizenship, and extracurricular activities.

The Teacher of the Month award recognizes outstanding teachers for their dedication, professionalism, and work on behalf of the State’s young people.

Each month, we will recognize a different teacher based on contributions to their school, excellence in the classroom, leadership abilities, citizenship, community involvement and a variety of other criteria.

Recognition of the student and teacher will include a Certificate of Excellence, 4 tickets to an event in the community, recognition at the event attended and their name, article and picture on the Ohio State Lottery website, with appropriate releases signed.

The nominations for each month, starting with the month of September, will be the 10th of the following month (i.e. nominations for September are due by October 10th). The Ohio State Lottery will review all nominations for completeness and enter all completed nominations into a random drawing. Nominators and the school principal will be notified as soon as a winner has been selected.

Regardless of the outcome, the Lottery would like to stress that the real tribute of this award is the nomination. It symbolizes the esteem and appreciation of students and teachers by their peers.