Re: 2008 Regional Chairman's Award Winners
 

Team 34 - Rockets is not related to the school mascot. North Alabama (Huntsville) has a lot of space based businesses and NASA's "George C Marshall Space Center".

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Just thought I would let you know... Team 1676 The Pascack Pi-oneers, are purposely not related to our school mascot. We're a district team comprised of two sister schools, and as such, we decided to create our own identity, complete with separate colors and mascot.

One school being the COWBOYS and the other the INDIANS, we decided to stay along the same "theme."

Also, here is a link to our 2008 Chairman's award submission:
http://www.team1676.com/viewpage.php?page_id=138

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I can't say anything about the other teams, but our school's mascot is indeed the Eagle. Our team colors, however, aren't related to the school.

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MARS (Mega Awesome Robotic Systems) Team 1523 does not have the same mascot as our school sponsor (Jupiter High School: Warriors), but instead selected an acromyn that has a more high tech/science feel & compliments our town of Jupiter. Home schooled & private school students have been team members, so being associated with our community in general works well.

Re: 2008 Regional Chairman's Award Winners
 

Congratulations to Team 341, MISS DAISY, for winning the Philadelphia Regional Chairman's Award!

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Congratulations to Team 1547, WHERE'S WALDO? , for winning the Greater Toronto Regional Chairman's Award!

Re: 2008 Regional Chairman's Award Winners
 

Making a Regional Chairman's Award List (Help if you want)

NJ regional: 1676, Pascack Pioneers
Philadelphia Regional: 341, Miss Daisy
Greater Toronto Regional: 1547, Where's Waldo

Re: 2008 Regional Chairman's Award Winners
 

Congrats to the Green Machine, who won at the Minnesota Regional. They put a tremendous amount of work in preparation for this event. It was a great event, and the award is well deserved.

Re: 2008 Regional Chairman's Award Winners
 

Pg 2 and 3 has a list
I'll post up an updated list tomorrow when all regionals are over

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My personal belief is that the chairman's awards submissions should be made public to the FIRST community. Not only as a system of checks and balances on wether or not the team has done as they say but also as a way to inspire other teams. We are always more then willing to share our ideas in the pits by why not with everyone?

Re: 2008 Regional Chairman's Award Winners
 

Thank You!
Team 1816 The Green Machine from Edina, Minnesota won the Regional Chairman's Award at the Minnesota Regional!

Re: 2008 Regional Chairman's Award Winners
 

A huge congrats to Team FUSION #364 for their RCA at the Bayou. A well deserved win for a team that does a lot for others.

Re: 2008 Regional Chairman's Award Winners
 

Thanks a lot! I have always dreamed of winning the Chairman's award, and now as a Senior and the leader of the team, I'm very happy. There was a lot of tough competition at the Bayou, and I want to say that I'm exceptionally proud of my team and hope they continue the tradition of giving back after I leave.

Re: 2008 Regional Chairman's Award Winners
 

Here the list of all the Regional Chairman's Winners:

BAE Systems Granite State Regional: 126 Gael Force
Midwest Regional: 71 Team Hammond
New Jersey Regional: 1676 Pascack Pioneers
Oregon Regional: 1318 Issaquah Robotics Society (IRS)
St. Louis Regional: 932 Memorial Circuit Chargers
Arizona Regional: 842 Falcon Robotics
Finger Lakes Regional: 340 GRR
Greater Kansas City Regional: 1429 KAOS
NASA/VCU Regional: 1086 Blue Cheese
San Diego Regional: 812 Midnight Mechanics
Boilermaker Regional: 234 Cyber Blue
Chesapeake Regional: 768 TechnoWarriors
Connecticut Regional: 236 TechnoTicks
Detroit Regional: 27 Team RUSH
Florida Regional: 1523 MARS
Peachtree Regional: 34 Rockets
Pittsburgh Regional: 291 CIA
Silicon Valley Regional: 604 Quixilver
Wisconsin Regional: 1714 More Robotics
Brazil Regional: 1860 Cephatron
Buckeye Regional: 612 Chantilly Robotics
Lone Star Regional: 1108 Panther Robotics
Los Angeles Regional:399 Eagle Robotics
Microsoft Seattle Regional: 488 X-Bot
Oklahoma City Regional: 476 Wildcats
UC Davis Sacramento Regional: 692 Fembots
Waterloo Regional: 1114 Simbotics
West Michigan Regional: 226 TEC CReW Hammerheads
Israel Regional: 1577 SteamPunk
Bayou Regional: 364 Team FUSION
Boston Regional: 839 Rosie Robotics
Colorado Regional: 159 Alpine Robotics
Great Lakes Regional: 68 Truck Town Thunder
Greater Toronto Regional: 1547 WHERE'S WALDO
Hawaii Regional: 359 Hawaiian Kids
Las Vegas Regional: 987 High Rollers
Minnesota Regional: 1816 The Green Machine
Palmetto Regional: 1398 RoboRaiders
Philadelphia Regional: 341 Miss Daisy
SBPLI Long Island Regional:329 R.A.I.D.
New York City Regional: TBA next week

Congrats to all teams! (let me know if anything is wrong or if I'm missing any regionals)

Re: 2008 Regional Chairman's Award Winners
 

Maybe not mandatory, but a voluntary repository would be valuable. We do post ours: 2008, 2007, 2006 I think some other teams do also.

It's just part of our "open source, raise the bar, GP" philosophy. I think reading other submissions can inspire other teams.

We host the regional FLL competition and we have a camera and microphone in every presentation room. That way parents and others can watch their team without being physically in the room. It is a very popular feature. It would be neat if the Championship (if not the Regional) chairman's Award was videotaped and made public. Perhaps all the presentations could be taped and given to presenting team.

Anyway, we agree with you. We learn so much from each other. We host the NURC competition and we tape and/or web cast everything we can. We have received many, many emails from groups thanking us as the videos and documents are better than any textbook.