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Originally Posted by moonlight
The chairman's award must be submitted on February 16 at noon Eastern time. You can find the Chairman's award criteria in the FIRST website... i don't know when is the video due though :S i'm hopping someone will help me out with that part
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Like many others before me have said there is no "steps to follow to win chairmans" but there is a lot of great advice from a lot of mentors on here and in the white pages from quite a few people who this isn't their first rodeo, so do your research. Also reach out to the HOA teams who offer to help! We love to help people, and often people are shy to email us but don't be.
That said don't get to caught up in what made one team successful and try to emulate that. I mentor both 1868 and 254 for their awards and they both submit *very* different chairman's last year in the head to head at SVR 1868 won but both submissions were very strong for very different reasons. You need to find out what makes your team strong and tailor everything to that.
The other thing is chairmans is a process 254 didn't become a HOA team over night and 1868 is still working on getting there and there isn't anything wrong with that. What is important to show is improvement every year you should be doing "better" and be able to track and show that. Its a cool story 254 did 4,000 hour of community service last year, whats a really cool story is that of the 8,000 they did in the last 3 years 4,000 of it was last year and with more members this year that number should go up.
I couldn't agree more with Glen about capturing it being the most difficult part. You cannot leave it till the end or you simply will not have the footage you need to create that awesome clip.
That said, at the RCA level the vid is more of a tie breaker than anything else but there needs to be a tie first, where as at the national level with so many teams who should be in the HOA it really can come down to the tiny things.
You will submit the vid at the regional you are presenting to but I cannot stress enough don't leave this to the end!
Also if any one would like my thoughts on their awards submissions I'm always happy to take a look and offer my thoughts so feel free to PM me.