Each year, participating teachers, librarians, and publishers nominate titles for the program.

High school counselors and teachers nominate about 1,900 students annually, mostly from Maryland, for merit-based scholarships.

In some cases, teachers nominate themselves.

Junior Head Boy: A Junior Head Boy for the school (often abbreviated as Junior School Captain) is selected from among students of Std X. By practice, teachers of the school nominate a candidate whom they consider suitable for the post after consultation with the Principal and Vice Principal of the school.

After a Special Dance Challenge, the teachers nominated Alex.

The winning teachers and the students who nominated them appeared in a special-edition Marvel comic book that featured teachers as Super Heroes.

He studied dance, and her teacher nominated her to a famous choreographer, then starting as a dancer in Domingão do Faustão, doing amateur theater and advertising campaigns.

The program asks teachers to nominate underachievers, giving about 435 children from all over the city the chance to spend the summer working on mathematics, science and reading in the hope of improving their chances on the admissions exams.

In 2009, more than 287,000 teachers nominated students to participate in an Envision EMI program.

All students in the top 25% of the graduating class are automatically declared Maroon Society Semi-Finalists, although teachers can nominate deserving students.