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Re: The Evolution of Chairman's Teams
As a mentor who has been supervising our Chairman's team since 2007, I want to weigh in here. I think, just as there are many approaches to succeeded on the field, there are many approaches to succeeding in the Chairman's arena. I don't think that you need the resources to do international outreach. As other posters have stated, I think it's important to pick you areas of focus and concentrate on them. What kinds of outreach do you want to do? What is important to you as a team?
We have a comparatively small, inner-city team. We're not, and probably won't ever, have the resources to go to China or any other country to do outreach there. But there's a huge need right in our own backyard, and that's what we've chosen to address. When we started this journey with our first submission in 2007, I told our students we're doing this NOT to win the award, but to grow as a team, year-round. We started with simple things - shake-the-cans at local grocery stores to raise money and spread the FIRST message, demonstrations at local schools, libraries, museums, etc. Flash forward to 2016 and we're hosting an FLL tournament for the third straight year, mentoring an FLL team, helping a team in the Netherlands by shipping stuff to them, translating documents for a 3-D printing project (we have many students who speak multiple languages) and making blankets for kids in the custody of the Department of Children and Family Services. Things I never thought we'd be doing nine years ago. Plus, we continue our grass roots efforts, demonstrating the robot at the typical places listed above but also at fairs, parades, festivals and even a camp for children with cancer. My message - striving for the Chairman's Award is not one-year thing. It's a long-term process, with rewards that go well beyond the blue banner. And you don't need to be big, flashy or international to win, as demonstrated by our team, which has won district Chairman's Awards in 2014 and 2015 and a district championship Chairman's Award in 2015. |
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My point was that NOTHING you say in the Chairman's room is given to other judges at the event, including those judging for EI, and vice versa. They don't even have access to your chairmans submission (essay and questions) unless you give it to them in a handout (which we sometimes do). This further proves that the two awards are in fact separate from each other. In fact, before the rule change allowing submitting for RCA at multiple events, we usually won EI at events where we did NOT submit for Chairman's. |
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--- If shaking the stigma of EI being referred to a second place chairman's is important to people, has anyone proposed giving EI winners a hot pink or neon green medal instead of silver compared to Chairman's gold? |
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