Established in 2014, the Outstanding Achievement Awards honour outstanding contributions made to the collaboration outside the field of physics analysis. They have since become a highlight of the community calendar, offering a chance to celebrate the vital work that keeps ATLAS running. Starting this year, the awards moved from a biennial to an annual format. “As our community rises to the dual challenge of operating the detector while pushing ahead with upgrade preparations, our members’ technical contributions have become more critical than ever,” says Sarah Demers, co-chair of the Awards Committee. “This is reflected in the sheer volume of outstanding nominations we’ve received, which made it clear that the awards needed to be celebrated every year.” A total of 65 nominations were put forward for this year’s awards, recognising work carried out between November 2023 and November 2024. The nominations spanned 15 categories, including detector operation and calibration, trigger, upgrade, outreach, and software and computing. Following careful consideration by the Advisory Group to the ATLAS Collaboration Board Chair, seven awards were presented to individuals and teams whose efforts stood out among a strong field of nominees. “While many of these contributions happen behind the scenes, they are absolutely central to the success of our experiment,” says Ricardo Goncalo, co-chair of the Awards Committee. “These awards are a celebration of the fantastic work done by so many people, which enables the great physics output of the ATLAS collaboration.” The award ceremony was held at CERN on 19 June 2025, during the collaboration’s ATLAS Week. Awardees joined both in person and remotely from their home institutes around the globe, and each received a plaque in recognition of their achievements. Meet the 2025 ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Award recipients on the ATLAS website.