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Re: Where are You Submitting for Chairmans?

148 will submit at our home regional -- Dallas.

Paul,
Don't worry about us, we don't have any FLL teams, just VEX at all levels of the school district. ;)

-John

Re: Where are You Submitting for Chairmans?

After two years of submitting chairmen’s at our second regional team 75 will be submitting our Chairmen’s submission at New Jersey this year. We look forward to competing with the vast variety of teams that attend New Jersey and we welcome the competition.

Matthew Simpson

Team 75 Vice President of Technical

Re: Where are You Submitting for Chairmans?

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Originally Posted by Pjohn1959 (Post 879790)

This brings up a good point.

Since when has FLL become a ‘mandatory’ requirement for the Chairman’s Award. It seemed as though last year that the judges were given marching orders from FIRST that the winning team from each regional, had to have something to do with FLL, either by holding a competition or by starting ‘x’ number of FLL teams.

I understand that FLL is the future of FRC, but I also believe that the traditional values of the RCA have been diluted by this drive. I still believe that it is more important for teams to inspire their students to getting their engineering degree, becoming an engineer, and then coming back and mentoring FRC teams. I also see a decline in the influence from the amount of community service that a team puts in.

There is a segment in team 111’s Championship Chairman’s video that shows a student on the team, then later after graduating with her degree, has returned as a mentor to that team. When the announcer says “that team gets it”, that is what the RCA should be about, not how much money you have been able to put in FIRST’s bank account.

Sorry, I had to get that off my chest….

Not to shoot down this completely because I have noticed this as an overall trend as well but we won RCA at Midwest last year without having any significant involvement in FLL.

Re: Where are You Submitting for Chairmans?

I think 1511 is still debating on which regional they will submit their Chairman's application. Every year we discuss the pros and cons of submitting at home or away. And there is a good chance that we won't tell you until you see the presentation team in their red camo ties on that Friday morning. So those of you who think we might be presenting in Boston; we may - or may not.

It is very important to me that all teams should be encouraged to go through the process of writing the essay, completing the executive overview and preparing the presentation (and video). I really don't like it when teams get hung up on looking at their competition and sometimes deciding they have no chance, so why bother. I think each team should look at its own goals and how they have accomplished those goals and use the Chairman’s opportunity as a time for some self evaluation and a chance to gain some great skills.

As far as FLL, FTC, or VEX involvement as a Chairman's "requirement," I'm not convinced. Yes we support FLL, hugely. And yes we won RCA. But the year before we kept hearing, "You do FLL, so does every team here. What else are you doing to innovatively spread the word of FIRST?" At that point we almost felt like our FLL involvement was a liability, not an asset.

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Originally Posted by DRAKE343 (Post 880503)

... I think RCA winners have to be well rounded in different areas.

I agree! This matches very much with our Team's philosophy. But it isn't the only way. I think that there may be teams out there who pick one message and one method and do it so well they will knock our socks off! And we will all say, now why didn't we think of that!

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1311 will be heading to the tarheel state, yee haw !

Re: Where are You Submitting for Chairmans?

1189 will be submitting at Traverse City this year. I'm pretty pumped for it, because I'll be presenting this year (and am currently trying to figure out what in the world we're doing, but we're making progress on it :cool: )

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As we get closer to the season, anyone else know where they want to submit?

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Bacon know's that we want to submit at North Carolina or Florida. But that's as narrowed down as we are likely to get. Honestly the debate will probably rage on till the submission deadline.

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2493 will be submitting their first ever RCA at San Diego.

We are pretty excited. The students who will be doing the presentation have been getting a lot of practice during the year.