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Originally Posted by Levansic
Ignore the award. Do the right things, and set the right culture in your team. Document your real efforts, set high expectations for conduct embracing Gracious Professionalism, and have fun!
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Absolutely !!
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Originally Posted by Steve W
how can a judge make an informed decision in 10 minutes.
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They can't. If the judges have not really studied the submissions before the competition then the process is broken. I'm sure it works well at some events and is probably broken at other events.
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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
I imagine the video submission will soon be due at the same time as the essay, that way we can almost get rid of the presentation and just have question and answers at the regional. I think that's how the judges truly learn what a team is about anyway.
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The
PRIMARY purpose of the video is not and has never been used to do RCA judging. The primary purpose was for other teams to see how the team that is earning an award do their work. It is in the spirit of communicating, inspiring, training others to become an RCA team. FIRST has had to implement language that enforces submission of the video.
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Originally Posted by waialua359
I sometimes question this for several reasons, one of which IMO, FIRST didnt deliver when it came to promoting its goals at its highest moment this year.
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Glenn, I agree - they really dropped the ball on this on !!! I don't know what to say. I had the same thoughts in my head when I was standing there.
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Originally Posted by 1075guy
is teams reusing the same wonderful things they did years ago over and over
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Chairman's allows a team to use this year plus the prior two years as part of the submission. I have seen teams go back even further than that. Sometimes it makes sense to do that.
We try to add ONE MAJOR initiative each year and a couple of lesser initiatives each year and hopefully maintain the prior initiatives as ongoing efforts. That way there is a pipeline of fresh stuff. But yes not all teams do that.
So an RCA teams has to do things consistently over a few years. A CMP CA team has to do it over 5 or even 10 years.
$ 0.02