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Originally Posted by N7UJJ
Preparing and delivering a Chairman’s presentation can be an authentic, important, life-altering experience that few students experience. It is perhaps more valuable than building the robot.
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This is so true. These are the same skills used for college, internship and job interviews. I've done a few workshops over the past 3 years on "Warm Up to Judging" for both FRC and VRC. Although there is always discussion at these workshops about the individual awards, it is mostly about the elevator pitch, interview best practices, and how to organize thoughts/information.
NEMO has a resource paper on "PACE yourself for that interview" about job interviews - written by someone who hires.
http://www.firstnemo.org/resources.htm
I have a ppt posted on Judging with the notes. The last part is about the RCA. I listened to the National Judge Advisors talk about the 2012 RCA on the Senior Mentor posted call last fall and incorporated my notes into this presentation.
This is their advice. http://www.mdfirst.org/images/storie...udging_101.pdf