Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

I don't see this year's submission up yet, but 1629 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.

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

We published our chairmans on our website.

Every year we have published our chairmans and archived our website/entry on our DiscoBots Splash page.

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

The RoboBees' Chairman's Award related documents are located here 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.

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

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.

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

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.

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

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

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

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

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

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

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

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!

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

Absolutely awesome job, thank you for sharing.

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

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

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

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?

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

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.c...-licensing.htm

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

Here is a different thread that might have some useful information (since the current thread is about a compilation of submissions).

Re: 2013 Chairman's Award Submissions
 

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.