Want Chairman's feedback?
 

Hey CD!

Do you want Chairman's Award feedback from a pair of experienced recent FIRST alumni? If so, you're in luck.

I'm a 2016 graduate of Team 1540, and my friend Eric Braeuner is a 2016 graduate of Team 503. (We're both freshmen at Yale.) Between the two of us, we've contributed to 15 Chairman's Award wins over the past four years (7 DCAs and 8 RCAs), and since there's no exit strategy from FIRST, we would love to help other teams improve their submissions.

We're happy to talk about any aspect of your submission, whether you're brainstorming for your essay or polishing your video -- we won't share anything about your submission with anyone else (of course).

We'll be Skyping with whoever's interested this Saturday from 12-6 Eastern, and if there's enough interest, we'll do this again later in the season.

If you're interested, here's what you need to do:

1. Sign up for a time slot here -- all times are EST
2. Send your Skype username to chairmans [at] jacobbendicksen.com
3. By Thursday night, email your submission to chairmans [at] jacobbendicksen.com so we can take a look at it before the call

That's it! Looking forward to chatting with you :)

Jacob

Re: Want Chairman's feedback?
 

Quick reminder -- if you're signed up for a slot, please send your Skype username, submission, and any questions you want us to consider to chairmans [at] jacobbendicksen.com by tomorrow night.

Thanks!

Re: Want Chairman's feedback?
 

Thanks for providing such a great resource.

Quick question - does the entire submission need to be done for us to get feedback?

Re: Want Chairman's feedback?
 

Just saw this -- absolutely not, we can help wherever you are.

Re: Want Chairman's feedback?
 

Also if you're signed up and haven't sent your submission or Skype username yet, please do so!! We want to help you but can't do that if we don't know how to talk to you :(

Re: Want Chairman's feedback?
 

Thanks for taking the time to meet with us! We greatly appreciate it.

The Hemmingway App is REALLY cool but is blocked here at school (!?!?! Because teacher's don't want their students to be better writers....?) so we had to log in on with a teacher's account.

We told Spencer, "Hi' for you.

Thanks again,
Betsy

Re: Want Chairman's feedback?
 

Of course!! Happy to help.

Strange that Hemingway is blocked...maybe ask IT to unblock it? Not sure.

Please let us know if there's anything else we can do!

Re: Want Chairman's feedback?
 

Try boomproxy.com or hola.org.

Re: Want Chairman's feedback?
 

Ow, can't believe we missed this opportunity yesterday. Tell Eric he's fired for selling our team's secrets ;)

If you guys are doing further Skype sessions later in the season, closer to the Essay submission date, I think our CA group would be very eager to get some feedback. Most of our students are rookies so they'd appreciate the opinions of some experienced FIRST veterans.

Re: Want Chairman's feedback?
 

I think we'll probably end up doing more sessions in a few weeks -- I'll post here when/if that happens.

And things are pretty great out here in New Haven...not sure he wants to come back ;)

EDIT: selling the team's secrets?? maybe we should make people pay next time