Earn Your MOE 365 Personal Recognition Button in Atlanta!
 

Championship Attendees:

Obviously, FIRST is all about recognition and inspiration. This absolutely holds true for the FIRST Championship event. To further encourage each of us to create the world we would love to live in, MOE 365 is initiating a special, limited edition, PERSONAL RECOGNITION button. This button will not be distributed freely (like our dozen or so other buttons), but must be EARNED by an individual.

The way it works...

Each MOE team member attending the Championship (about 60 students and mentors) will have only 3 (three) PERSONAL RECOGNITION buttons. Each button holder will be instructed to award a button for what they believe to be the best examples deserving recognition in the following areas:

* Gracious Professionalism
* Helpfulness
* Spirit / Enthusiasm
* Xtreme Safety
* Bringing people together

These areas and how our team members assess people against them is going to be somewhat subjective. However, the overriding factor is actions "Deserving Special Recognition."

Not only will recognized individuals receive one of our limited edition buttons (~180 in all), but the MOE team member awarding the button will record the name, team number, and reason for the recognition at the time of the award. We plan on posting all recognition awardees (or at least as many as we obtain information for) on our website shortly after the Championship.

So put your Gracious Professional game-face on and do what you always do at FIRST competitions, create an environment we all wish we lived in everyday!

..and look out for those glowing green jerseys. They might end up pinning a button on you!

See y'all in Atlanta. Safe travels everyone! :)

P.S. The button graphics will be posted soon.

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;) You should give one to our drive team for losing to you guys at Philly;) Gracious Professionalism was really tested after the DQ call. Oh well grin and bear it, were going to Nat's

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Spikey:

If we had Personal Recognition buttons at Philly, we might have done just what you suggest.

I recommend that we look forward to all the fun and excitement awaiting us at the Championship Event and not backward. Let's all make this event one we can recollect with only positive memories.

See you guys in the Dome!

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Do they come in colors other than green?

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Oh, Oh Me. I got spirit yes I do. Either that or I am nuts. That is a great idea you have come up with. A team with so much spirit giving out Spirit buttons and GP and..... Way to lead the way. See you at Championships.

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Originally posted by RoboMom
Do they come in colors other than green?
You mean there are other colors besides GREEN? Why in the world would you need more colors?

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[quote=Bill Moore]You mean there are other colors besides GREEN? Why in the world would you need more colors?[/size][/color]
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Just checking... :)

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There is also RED which you will see if you attend Mr. Moe's and my presentation on Multiple High School Teams at the conference! It may be harsh on the eyes, but we WILL keep your attention that way! :)

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OU OU OU!!! I WANT I WANT I WANT! I'll be sure to do what it takes to earn one...

but I won't be doing it just for the button... It's my job...

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oh wow! what a neat idea. :) i'll be sure to act EXTRA spirited around MOE people (not that i wont already be doing that anyways...) i want a special limited-edition awesome MOE Button! :D heehee

and hey, speaking of colors, green is nice, so is red, but PINK is CONTAGIOUS. (dont forget that Real Men Wear Pink!!) :]

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this sounds like a really great idea!! whoever thought of it good for them...

i've seen teams award teams things but this is really nice. whoever gets them really deserves them obviouslly.

green is a good color....pink is too and red and yellow and orange and purple and black and can't forget about BLUE :p

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Referring to the MOE Personal Recognition buttons and being reminded of the classic Monty Python SPAM sketch, I can only answer...

"Well, there's not much green on it."

:D :D :D

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Well I've seen TJ^2 in action and personally handed you guys a MOE Team Spirit Award (The First Automated Clapping MOE Sticks awarded) at NJ in 2004.

Pin Man, if you, your mentor Moe (who has a great name :D ) and the rest of TJ^2 bring your "A Spirit Game" and help make Galileo the most spirited division at Championships; you should have no problem earning one ;) .

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HELLOOOoooo Galileo

oh yeah ? OH YEAH !!!!

We 've Got Spirit on TJ2 How about YOU ???????

Atlanta rest up Team 88 TJ2 is on the way --------


GALILEO WILL ROCK THE HOUSE !!!!!!!!


HOW U DOIN ?


Have a safe trip see all SOOOOONNNnn

MOE Iam the one in the TYE-DYE HA HA
:yikes:

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I think I will need to bring earplugs for next week, and lots of throat lozenges. :)

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Those are for the WEAK, if you lose your voice, drink water and talk more;)

O boy my parents are in for a wild ride.......(they're coming to nats this year, and they came in 02, but this year just seems to be eletrified with energy)

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And that's coming from my teammate? Oh wait, she's part of that... what do you call it? oh yeah, the PIT CREW, the ones you only see a few times during a competition because they're goofing off under the pretense of actually WORKING ON THE ROBOT!!! ;)

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It appears that Keiko173 will have to work extra hard to earn her Personal Recognition button. : ;)

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Actually, Tiffany, this idea was one of those born out of a brainstorming session.

Like many others, we give out Team Awards such as our clapping MOEstix Team Spirit trophy, but every year at Championships we see many examples of positive FIRST behavior that really do not fall into a "team" catgegory. The behavior is usually more individual in nature; acts of courtesy or assistance toward one another, the enthusiastic spirit leader(s) of a team, the impromptu activities that bring folks from different teams together, etc. These all contribute to the great event and the party atmosphere that we enjoy each year, and make it three wonderfully hectic days.

Because the actions are individual, we thought the recognition should reflect that as well. We decided to charge ourselves with the task of personally recognizing individual actions that we feel contribute positively to the FIRST community. The buttons are a visual symbol that someone from our team observed behavior that would "Make Your Grandmother Proud."

Will we be able to officially recognize all the positive FIRST behaviors in Atlanta? No, that is an impossible task for any team, even one as large as the Miracle Workerz. We hope and encourage other teams to join in the task of recognizing positive individual actions at the Championship, and if they have time, create a button, ribbon or other visual symbol to commemorate the recognition.

Who knows, if all teams worked together on this task, maybe we could officially recognize all the behaviors that make this FIRST community so great.

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Hey, i'm out there for all our matches, and yelling and screaming!! Besides there's always enough noise in the pits that you need to yell to hear each other. And tell me, who exactly would fix the robot without your pit crew? While FIRST has great ideas like gracious professionalism, it's hard to compete without a robot:)

the honor of such a button would make me SUPER happy, but i don't know how I'll get it.
Anyone is FREE to come to our pit at almost ANY time to ask for help. We have more engineers than we need (they keep tinkering with the robot, when it needs no tinkering) so by all means, if you have something you want some help with, come ask!! We almost never say no!! You choice, kids or adult, we're all pretty smart, and totally willing to help.

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I wish you guys went to Chesapeake... I think in all the years I have been involved in FIRST and from all the videos I have seen of my team in the passed, this year at the Chesapeake Bay Regional we were the craziest we have ever been... Constantly running around screaming and dancing, spirit chants to random people and teams, of course the usual cheering during our matches... It was probably one of the best trips I have ever been on in my entire life... But I plan for my team to top that in Atlanta... :)

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I can vouch that A)Lisa and our pit crew deserve a MOE button at every event we go to and B)TJ2 and the other teams were having SOOO much fun at Chesapeake.... it will always be one of my favorite memories of FIRST.

RAGE has taken MOE's advice to heart (GREAT IDEA!) and has also made some special buttons to recognize Gracious Professionalism.

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Below is a copy of the Personal Recognition Button that MOE will be handing out - if you see someone wearing one, congratulate them!

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Nice. Just enough green..... :)