@Brian Lucas - did you receive and email regarding the change to judging for Rookie All Star? (assuming you are one of the contacts for 4342)
Our team was extremely disappointed in the change presented to us.
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To MAR FRC Teams competing for either the Engineering Inspiration Award (#75, #321, #433, #1923, #3142) or the Rookie All-Star Award (#3929, #4128, #4342, #4347) at the upcoming MAR FRC Region Championship being held next week at the Liacouras Center, Temple University, Philadelphia PA . . .
Teams - please verify back to me receipt of this email - thank you!
From Judge Advisor Dave Greenley:
The judging process for the 5 teams competing for the Engineering Inspiration Award and the 4 teams competing for the Rookie All Star Award at the MAR Championship will consist of 10 minute dialogs with a group of judges. The judges for these two awards will not be visiting teams in the pits, instead the discussions will take place in a judging room in the Liacouras Center. Teams are asked not to make prepared presentations or to create any special material for the judges. A sign-up sheet will be placed in Pit Admin on Thursday, teams will be able to pick their time slot with the judges. At this time, Judging for Engineering Inspiration and Rookie All-star is scheduled to take place on Friday. If any of the eligible teams are not planning to attend the event please let Dave Greenley, dgreenley@comcast.net Judge Advisor for the MAR Championship know as soon as possible so that we can arrange a time for your team to meet the judges.
Best Wishes and Good Luck to all teams . . . we hope you have and will celebrate the awards your team has won at the five MAR FRC District events!
Donald http://us.mg5.mail.yahoo.com/ya/down...YahooMailNe o
Donald H. Bowers
FIRST Regional Director
DE-NJ-Eastern PA
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I feel that this is extremely unfair to the students who, at district events, put in countless hours preparing materials for the judges to take into consideration only to have none of the same materials taken into consideration at the MAR Championship. It creates, in my opinion, a different judging criteria than it did for our district event. What do other people feel about this?