Re: Triple Blue Banner at Central Illinois
 

It seems that TBA doesn't count WFFA as a blue banner. 2220 is recorded as having two blue banners on the insights page but still has all three awards.

Re: Triple Blue Banner at Central Illinois
 

111 pulled it off back to back at Midwest in 2005 and 2006, winning the regional and Chairman's both years and having Big Al Skierkiewicz and Dan Green selected as WFFA winners. (Al in 2005, Dan in 2006)

Re: Triple Blue Banner at Central Illinois
 

525 just did it this week at the Iowa Regional.

Re: Triple Blue Banner at Central Illinois
 

Does Volunteer of the Year earn a blue banner now? I recall a very nice trophy, but no banner.

Re: Triple Blue Banner at Central Illinois
 

Actually 525 won the regional, won chairman's but Ken Swartley (their mentor) won volunteer of the year not WFFA. He actually won Woodie Flowers at the 10,000 Lakes Regional in 2011.

Re: Triple Blue Banner at Central Illinois
 

No. Which makes sense as some volunteers of the year aren't associated with a team. And the stated reason to add a banner for Woodie Flowers Finalists to earn a banner is to recognize the connection with the team and it is something for the team to be proud of. (paraphrasing)

And yes, a team should be proud if one of their mentors wins Volunteer of the Year. But it is more being proud of someone you know because it is about activities that occur outside of the team. Just like the other mentors and student team members were excited for me when my books came out. It's really cool, but not a team thing.

Re: Triple Blue Banner at Central Illinois
 

Two blue banners for Team 525 at the Iowa Regional. The WFFA winner at the Iowa Regional is Richard Hurban from Team 5837, Unity4Tech in Waterloo, IA. We will always think of Dick as a Swartdog even though he won the award as a mentor for Unity4Tech. Dick started as a mentor for Team 525 when his daughters were on the team and his FIRST involvement grew into mentoring multiple FTC teams and now the FRC team in Waterloo over the past few years. A well deserved honor for Dick's commitment to the students of Waterloo.

Re: Triple Blue Banner at Central Illinois
 

Long day, my apologies.

Re: Triple Blue Banner at Central Illinois
 

Kenton, thanks for the kind words and years of service to 525 and FIRST. I would not have received WFFA without role models like you, and Bruce and Jan Newendorp.
Unity4Tech and Swartdogs invite everyone to "Meet us in St. Louis at the World Championship" in just over a week!

Re: Triple Blue Banner at Central Illinois
 

I think your a bit confused.

The thread is talking about banners. Winning the event, chairman's, and WFFA gets you a banner.

329 won 2 DLF awards, engineering inspiration, Finalists, and the gp award this year.

So they actually walked away from both events without a single banner.

Still an impressive run.

Re: Triple Blue Banner at Central Illinois
 

My team, 3506, walked away with three blue banners this year at the North Carolina State Championship. Making it our fifth banner this year. This is an incredible feat and congrats to all the team that have been able to do this so far.