I got it today! My counselor got notified I won a while ago and kept it a secret hahah 
@verizonwireless yes my parents were there, but they werenāt notified until the night before. My recommender knew for about three weeks though.
And no acceptance speech @Ballerina2016
Congrats @bubsbubbles! Are you in the SE region too?
Nope, west. Iām from Hawaii!
Sooo, the awards are given out by region/area correct? 
Some people in my state got the class visits a week or two agoā¦
@chiplay region?
Iām from Washington stateā¦
Does anyone know of anything on the east coast
Congrats to all the winners. @verizonwireless I donāt know about all of east coast but they are in Baltimore right now. My son was just surprised. Yes, I knew and sorry I didnāt post but I wanted to make sure he was surprised. And from what the Nordstrom lady told me, all schools do it differently. She had recently been at a school where they called the parents 10 minutes beforehand so donāt give up hope yet. I knew for a week.
Congrats to all. I am pretty sure my S is winning the award in 2 weeks. Hard to keep the secret! Did anyone see a psot where a winnder won a computer? I donāt know where I saw that. I will be shopping at Nordstroms.
my son got a Mac Air today from them
Wow. Did he get it when he was surprised at school? How lucky are these fab kids?
@iwnwawbwā¦yes, they showed up with it when they came to school. And he was very surprised about it all
Do they give Mac Air to every award recipient? I hope DD will get hers this week. I know yesterday they surprised one student at Davis, CA. It was posted on Facebook.
Thank you so much. It is such a stressful time that this surprise is awesome.
@Ballerina2016ā¦I donāt know if everyone gets the laptop. I didnāt ask.
@iwnwabwā¦it was stressful just keeping it a secret
If our recommenders still havenāt received emails, does that mean that we didnāt win
I only know that our recommender called to tell us 8 days ahead of time. Not sure when he found out
@verizonwireless : Donāt be too worry. Your recommender wants to keep the secret even if s/he already knows. Advance notice to parents varies from hours to weeks from the information posted here. Nordstrom likes to surprise the winners.