Thread: Chairman's Award Concerns
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Re: Chairman's Award Concerns
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Originally Posted by RoboMom View Post
It was announced in Oct. 2011 that starting in 2012, all winning RCA written submissions would be posted on the usfirst.org site within a week of earning the award.

The recording can be found here: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...nce-recordings

When I inquired a couple of weeks ago I was told that it was not being implemented this year.

I was disappointed. It's not the fact-checking I am interested in. It's the inspiration.
I'm disappointed as well. I really wanted to see what smaller teams who may have won the chairman's award had done to see if there is anything our team could be doing better with limited resources.

Also, a point one of the speakers made on that phone call is that sometimes teams who do exaggerate their role in doing something get caught. Team X may take full credit for mentoring a rookie or FLL team and a few presentations later Team Y may present specifics showing how they actually played a major role in mentoring that same team --so sometimes teams get weeded out pretty easily. I'd be surprised to find many teams crossing the line from exaggeration to blatantly lying.