Chairman's Award Panel
 

I'll be moderating a Chairman's Award Panel for the Fall Workshops in San Diego with several members of FRC 1538 Holy Cows.

What kind of questions would you like to have answered by the panel? Looking for questions along the lines of what it takes to be a Championship Chairman's award winning team.

Re: Chairman's Award Panel
 

I think it depends on your audience. Are you expecting to have a lot of teams that have never submitted for Chairman's, or teams that regularly submit?

If the former, it would be nice to have questions regarding the process, prepared materials to expect, how to design a presentation, etc.

If the later, it would probably be more useful to have questions regarding what teams should be doing (events, outreach, etc) in order to improve on the content the judges want to actually see in their presentation.

Re: Chairman's Award Panel
 

I would ask about their documentation process. Make sure they bring their binder and let teams look through it.

I would also ask about how they worked with previous chairman's winning teams to improve their submissions? What advice do they think helped them the most.

In their opinion what made their submission stand out this year from the other CCA contenders?

What do they see as the things all teams should be doing but aren't to better prepare for the Chairman's process?

Re: Chairman's Award Panel
 

The audience will be a mix of teams that have submitted for RCA and teams that haven't. There may be a team or two that have submitted at Championship

Re: Chairman's Award Panel
 

Richard, will these be webcast or at least video and posted for later viewing?

I think this is a great idea.

Thanks,

Norman

Re: Chairman's Award Panel
 

Richard, will these be webcast or at least video and posted for later viewing?

I think this is a great idea.

Thanks,

Norman

Re: Chairman's Award Panel
 

Not a question but some possible additional resources.
We held a panel presentation here as part of the BAA Education Day.
ppt is here: http://www.mdfirst.org/programs/firs...ining-day.html
I also like the white paper done by Team 2486. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2869
Have fun!