Length of Chairman's Essay

[kawaiiRose]

Hello everyone,

My team is submitting the Chairman's Award for the first time and I'm in charge of writing out the essay. I have a clear outline of what I would like to write (based on the Chairman's questions) and have started already, but as I get closer to finishing I'm concerned about the length of the essay. From my guess, I will probably finish with around 1,100-1,200 words, quite a bit away from the max 1,500.

For those who have submitted before, what do you think about this count? Too short? Acceptable? I'm the kind of person who likes to include as much as possible, but since we are a rookie team, we haven't done much.

Also, if it seems a bit lacking, what do you think I can put in addition to the questions? Thank you!

[Holly Ann]

As long as it follows the guidelines, and you have answered all of the questions, then I am sure it is fine.
If you want to send me a copy I can surely look over it for you; I am a mentor that did it twice when I was in the program. Below i added the criteria


 Team Name
 Corporate/University Sponsors
 Briefly describe the impact of the FIRST program on team participants with special
emphasis on the 2010/2011 year and the preceding two years (500 characters allowed,
including spaces and punctuation)
 Examples of role model characteristics for other teams to emulate (500 characters
allowed, including spaces and punctuation)
 Describe the impact of the FIRST program on your team and community with special
emphasis on the 2010/2011 year and the preceding two years (500 characters allowed,
including spaces and punctuation)
 Team’s innovative methods to spread the FIRST message (500 characters allowed,
including spaces and punctuation)
 Describe the strength of your partnership with special emphasis on the 2010/2011 year
and the preceding two years (500 characters allowed, including spaces and punctuation)
 Team’s communication methods and results (500 characters allowed, including spaces
and punctuation)
 Other matters of interest to the FIRST judges, if any (500 characters allowed, including
spaces and punctuation)
 Upload pictures (maximum of 4 allowed, not to exceed 1.0Mb in total)
 Essay (10,000 characters allowed, including spaces and punctuation, or approximately
1500 words)
 Electronic signature of Team Captain/Student Representative certifying that the
document is complete and accurate