2013 Chairman's Award Submissions [Archive]

AllenGregoryIV

21-02-2013, 12:19

A few teams have started posting their 2013 Chairman's Award submissions.

I started a Google spreadsheet to keep track of these so that more teams can find them and be inspired. Anyone can edit. If your team would like to have other teams see your submission please add links to the spreadsheet.

2013 Chairman's Award Submissions Spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgvyTH6hACHhdGlPalFxYkRicWpkUzRSaExUTG5qS 0E#gid=0)

falconmaster

21-02-2013, 14:51

Thanks for doing this, this is great! Kudos! Posted our just now. We no longer officially qualify, but do it anyway, makes us a better team!

EricLeifermann

21-02-2013, 14:54

Thanks for doing this, this is great! Kudos! Posted our just now. We no longer officially qualify, but do it anyway, makes us a better team!

But its good practice for when you do qualify again.

AllenGregoryIV

21-02-2013, 15:05

But its good practice for when you do qualify again.

As far as I know, no Championship Chairman's Winning team has ever reentered, even those that are allowed to by the rules.

EricLeifermann

21-02-2013, 15:10

As far as I know, no Championship Chairman's Winning team has ever reentered, even those that are allowed to by the rules.

No, and I don't think any of them would really consider entering. However it is valuable thing to get experience giving presentations, and then getting critiqued, in front of people. I wouldn't have a problem with CC teams presenting at a competition.

AllenGregoryIV

21-02-2013, 15:13

No, and I don't think any of them would really consider entering. However it is valuable thing to get experience giving presentations, and then getting critiqued, in front of people. I wouldn't have a problem with CC teams presenting at a competition.

I completely agree, your last statement just made it seem like you assumed they would be entering again when their time was up.

falconmaster

21-02-2013, 16:15

At the annual chairman's HOF meetings, it was unanimous that hall of fame means one time, otherwise its not really a HOF. Having said that, generally there are 10 or less entries for Chairman's at any given regional. It was felt that HOF teams that competed for Chairmans again, would cause the already limited pool of CA submitters to decline. The point it seemed to us was to get more teams involved not have the same pool fight over for it again. Maybe the decision is wrong... but that was the stand at the last few meetings. HOF are trying to help other become HOF members. We want to spread FIRST message and that means more teams, not the same teams. That said, it is the HOF teams mission to find other ways to spread FIRSTs message. We hold many other ether STEM events like NURC and compete in AUVSI Robosub. Rise to the next challenge and all that. You don't need to be fighting for Chairman's in FIRST to be a chairman's team! Doing the right thing is always right, not just when then there is an award attached to it.....

ENeyman

21-02-2013, 20:53

Here is the page on our website with our submissions for the past two years.

frc3929.org/awards

kmehta

21-02-2013, 21:48

As far as I know, no Championship Chairman's Winning team has ever reentered, even those that are allowed to by the rules.

That's not true, I know of a HOF team that re-entered and didn't win at the regional level.

AllenGregoryIV

22-02-2013, 18:35

We're up to 8 teams who have posted their Chairman's essay. I know there are many more teams willing to share.

MrBydlon

22-02-2013, 19:06

FRC Team 3313 Mechatronics from Alexandria, MN has posted our Chairman's Essay, Chairman's Executive Summary, and Pictures.

Thank you to Team 3847 for providing an organized place to keep them!

AllenGregoryIV

22-02-2013, 19:22

FRC Team 3313 Mechatronics from Alexandria, MN has posted our Chairman's Essay, Chairman's Executive Summary, and Pictures.

Thank you to Team 3847 for providing an organized place to keep them!

Thanks for posting your team is awesome and has shared so much this season. I hope to see you at championship this year.

AllenGregoryIV

04-03-2013, 17:20

Now that the week one regionals are over. Do any of the teams that submitted in week one want to post their Chairman's Submissions? We still only have nine 2013 submissions.

Mc Kenna

04-03-2013, 22:36

It might be worth noting if they were winning submissions and at what regional they won.

AllenGregoryIV

05-03-2013, 02:49

It might be worth noting if they were winning submissions and at what regional they won.

That's a great idea. Once we get some that have won, I'll add a column or two. I've reached out to all the winners from week 1 to see if they are willing to share their submissions. Hopefully we will start getting more teams posting their essays.

Storcky

05-03-2013, 07:46

I don't see this year's submission up yet, but 1629 (http://www.team1629.com/Team-1629-Home/about-our-team/chairman-s-awards) has their past 3 Chairman's submissions which have won 2010 RCA, 2011 REI and CEI, and 2012 RCA and CEI. The Chairman's materials were used to supplement talking to judges about EIA which is why I listed those as well.

lynca

06-03-2013, 10:27

We published our chairmans on our website (http://2013.discobots.org/node/17).

Every year we have published our chairmans and archived our website/entry on our DiscoBots Splash page (http://splash.discobots.org).

E. Wood

06-03-2013, 16:51

waialua359

06-03-2013, 17:24

The RoboBees' Chairman's Award related documents are located here (http://robobees.org/?subtopic=chairmans) on our website. While this year's documents may not be there yet they will be shortly. We will also be posting video of our judge's presentation and our Chairman's Award Video from this year at some point. If you have any question feel free to ask.

I had a chance to review some of your work from your website.
Kudos to you folks!
You folks have been one of my favorite teams for the work that you folks do and the amount of time and effort put in building an entire program for years.
You folks have definitely set the bar very high for others to emulate/follow.

Good luck to you folks at CMP this year and congratulations on winning the RCA at Palmetto.

There is another team that is very well-rounded as well like you folks and they compete this weekend. Lets see what happens.

Elong451

13-03-2013, 13:15

I have a question about the presentation as well. First Robotics Team 1758 Has a regional in three days and would like to know if not showing the video during the presentation was better than showing it and waiting for them to respond with more questions about our team. This year's video is coming along swimmingly and looks fantastic. Our presentation how ever (because we lack experience with this) is coming up short on ideal answers to any question the judges could ask. This forum has helped greatly. We are submitting outside our home regional due to our regional being one of the many during the first week.
Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Pjohn1959

13-03-2013, 14:44

Emily,
My recommendation would be to not show a video. They judges can view it afterwards if they want. Those 5 minutes go by really fast. You need to get all of your accomplishments in front of the judges, and they would rather hear them from a live voice. Be upbeat and positive, after all, this is YOUR story. Be proud to tell it!

Good luck with your presentation.

Paul

RoboMom

13-03-2013, 16:54

I have a question about the presentation as well. ...
Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Take a minute to read through the other threads on this same topic. Lots of advice given.

AllenGregoryIV

13-03-2013, 17:08

Any of the week 2 Chairman's submitters want to add their submissions to the list? We would love to have them.

Marina Dimitrov

14-03-2013, 00:43

Any of the week 2 Chairman's submitters want to add their submissions to the list? We would love to have them.

I just added our submission to the spreadsheet. Also, here's a handy website link with all of it together: http://www.team1540.org/Chairmans2013

We might record our presentation at some point, but as of yet that hasn't happened.

Best wishes to everyone for Championships!

AllenGregoryIV

14-03-2013, 01:02

I just added our submission to the spreadsheet. Also, here's a handy website link with all of it together: http://www.team1540.org/Chairmans2013

We might record our presentation at some point, but as of yet that hasn't happened.

Best wishes to everyone for Championships!

Absolutely awesome job, thank you for sharing.

AllenGregoryIV

19-03-2013, 18:29

3176, Purple Precision, have added some excellent information about their team's Chairman's submission. Anymore teams interested in sharing their submissions?

peetam22

23-03-2013, 22:02

Chris Fultz

23-03-2013, 22:37

A question I have pertains to copyrights. It says in the form you have to sign and turn it with the video, "all copyrighted materials included in our submission are owned by us or have been properly
licensed,". How would you go about properly licensing something? I wanted to use the Back To The Future theme music possibly in our video, would that be allowed? Is there any sort of citing I have to do on the disk cover to show it's copyrighted?

In general, you have to obtain approval from the owner of the song in order to use it. Then you must show, through documentation, that you have been given the approval to use the song. Just stating that the song is copyrighted does not mean you have approval to use it.

Here are two online references to music licensing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_licensing

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/music-licensing.htm

Marina Dimitrov

24-03-2013, 01:41

A question I have pertains to copyrights.

Here (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114249) is a different thread that might have some useful information (since the current thread is about a compilation of submissions).

Wendy Holladay

24-03-2013, 07:51

1912's is on Spectrum's spreadsheet and our website, along with our DL and WFA submits, along with all past year's winning submits.

alex.lew

24-03-2013, 10:28

And our chairman's video is also available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDg4PDbv-8

James1902

31-03-2013, 19:34

Exploding Bacon's submission is here http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2807?

And the video is on our YouTube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUKMcERlhP0

cgmv123

07-04-2013, 23:28

Our (winning!) submission is here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2812

zcohen

08-04-2013, 12:21

The Power Hawks just uploaded our Chairman's essay here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2813
And we have updated the Google Doc at the beginning of this thread.

We will be submitting at Chesapeake this year!

LuanH

08-04-2013, 14:38

Team 3132's Chairman's video is posted on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXbfL_AevbU&list=UUTmHDzORK3S77zVbXAlIOEg&index=1

Wishing all teams the best of luck in week 7 and St Louis.

hiyou102

09-04-2013, 17:01

ATA's Chairman's Award video can be found here (http://youtu.be/Qo2S1fdhGmo).

hiyou102

10-04-2013, 13:02

Team 3132's Chairman's video is posted on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXbfL_AevbU&list=UUTmHDzORK3S77zVbXAlIOEg&index=1

Wow, this really amazed me. This is probably one of the best Chairman's Award videos I've ever seen both in terms of content and production quality. I can definitely see your team winning CCA in the next few years. This has really inspired me to work even harder on the Chairman's Award efforts on my own team.

kbohinski

12-04-2013, 21:59

video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4jASpAYbAw
writeup will be here : https://sites.google.com/a/lrhsd.org/stormroboticsteam/resources/documents

ebarker

14-04-2013, 19:19

After getting our website back together after a hacker blew it up we would like to direct you to the site at http://kellrobotics.org/ (http://kellrobotics.org/)

If you read the articles on the scroller bar, then you have actually read our Chairman's submission. There are four articles on the scroller that are not part of the submission.

SarahBeth

16-04-2013, 13:15

Team 157 submitted at Pine Tree for the first time and while we didn't win, I'm very very proud of our kids - it was an awesome experience for them - and with the feedback that we got from the judges, I'm confident that we'll go up from here.

Here's our video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OryH8cK3d3g

Don't have the written submission uploaded anywhere yet, but I'll get on it.

Programmer3941

16-04-2013, 17:46

Team 3941 submitted for the first time at Chesapeake. We tried our best, had a blast putting this together, and won EI instead. :)

Our executive summary is here (http://frc3941.techbrick.com/chairmans-award-executive-summary-2013/).
Our long essay is here (http://frc3941.techbrick.com/chairmans-award-long-essay-2013-2/).
And our video is here (http://frc3941.techbrick.com/chairmans-award-video-2013/).

AllenGregoryIV

17-04-2013, 04:30

fuzzwaz

21-04-2013, 21:10

Hey All! I could not find a copy of the Essay yet but our video was just posted on youtube. Take a look if you have some free time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-EwzgF0-w&feature=youtu.be

Chris Fultz

23-04-2013, 12:10

From Cyber Blue - FRC 234 -

Our 2013 Chairman's Essay - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2814

Our 2013 Chairman's Video - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gDerPk-kGIQ&feature=plcp

ebarker

23-04-2013, 19:45

Our 2013 Chairman's submission is here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/download/3675

If you have studied our website at www.kellrobotics.org then you have all the information, nothing new here.

ebarker

28-04-2013, 19:07

Our video is available here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5pMiEo1zww)

AllenGregoryIV

28-04-2013, 19:26

Now that the season has ended, lets try to get as many Chairman's entries posted as possible. So many teams are doing amazing things, but we hardly get to hear about them.

jasonspevack

29-04-2013, 14:23

Below is the link for Team 610's 2013 Chairman's Award Video.

Click Here (http://youtu.be/GeQXs5O7oIU)

AllenGregoryIV

29-04-2013, 15:10

Below is the link for Team 610's 2013 Chairman's Award Video.

Click Here (http://youtu.be/GeQXs5O7oIU)

Stunning video, thank you so much for sharing it. It's amazing that all 3 of the World Championship winners have also won Engineering Inspiration awards in their histories, thank you all for what you do in your communities.

H.A.L.

05-05-2013, 18:52

Here is our essay. I will link the video in the spreadsheet too.

AllenGregoryIV

15-06-2013, 21:26

Any other teams want to share their hard work by posting their submissions for others to read? I know a lot more teams are doing great work and the community should know about it.

cadandcookies

11-07-2013, 00:30

I can provide the google drive folder where we did all of our planning and notes. Some of the content is notes that might not make sense outside of the context that the comments were made. If you have any questions, feel free to send me a PM or ask a question here. For reference, we won Chairman's at the North Star Regional this year.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bygplvc8llqmWUFvYmNhZ1JKS2s&usp=sharing

A huge thank you to Renee Becker for helping us with our presentation and providing feedback to us and the teams the other teams at the workshop that we co-hosted. Your advice was invaluable in crafting our submission. I can't remember the name of the other person that was there, but a great thanks to her too.

VexisDarksteele

12-07-2013, 19:27

Since the season is over, I don't think my teammates will have any issues about me posting it now. Besides, Chairman's will be someone else's duty next year. ;)

All I have on hand is the essay portion. I can't find the video anywhere online, and we never recorded ourselves presenting.
Basically, the video was themed like a children's picture book, telling the story of our mascot toaster, Rye, as she travelled the world inspiring teams and communities.
Our presentation was business-themed. We all dressed up in suits and carried our handouts/brochures/papers in a briefcase that we set down in front of the judges. We had a flip-board with charts and graphs and illustrations about our content.

This year, we won the Gull Lake District Chairman's Award, and came in as a VERY close 4th place for Chairman's at the State Championship event (FiM: At the State competition, there are 3 Chairman's awards available). The one thing that held us back was our age; we're not an old enough team to have a long-term record of our sustainability. We also won Engineering Inspiration at the Livonia District Competition.

For some reason, no one's updated our website in several months... When they do update, the rest our Chairman's materials will be posted here:
http://www.theflyingtoasters.org/#!__resources
That page (under the Chairman's tab) also has our entry from last year, our first-ever presentation for anyone who's curious. :)

rcosborne11

12-01-2014, 14:54

Here is our Chairmans Award Winning Essay from 2013. We won the Boilermaker Regional Chairmans Award.

http://www.redalert1741.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/chairmansessay2013.pdf

mathking

14-01-2014, 10:08

Here is a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wtXYCz_IAA) of our presentation team practicing and here is a link to the zip file of our Prezi document (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwuRaQrIpyoRX2VLYWlLR25jSWM/edit?usp=sharing) for the presentation. We did not win in 2013, but the format is similar to our winning 2012 presentation and received positive feedback from the judges.