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Originally Posted by JulieL
Basically, my question is: is the interview professional or is it a more creative display?
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Your team can decide which one works best for you! You want to show your team identity in the presentation and be comfortable. Talk amongst the team and see what they think they'll be most comfortable with.
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Originally Posted by JulieL
And what information is needed to get across to the judges that is exclusively for the interview?
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When I work with teams on the RCA I remind them that there are many different places you can tell your team story. You have an essay, an executive summary, the
Judges Information Page on TIMS, 4 pictures, and 10 minutes of personal time with the judges (5 for presentation, 5 for Q&A).
I suggest looking at the essay, executive summary, and presentation all together and determine the most important information you want the judges to know and sort that into your presentation (with the idea that those 10 minutes are your personal time with the judges). The executive summary asks specific questions that you can answer in 500 characters (including spaces and punctuation). The essay is the place where you can put the rest of the information about what the team has done (If you've done the RCA submission process before and received the feedback form look that over to determine additional questions you should answer in your essay. If you don't have the form PM me and I can send that over to you).
There may be times where you have these big things your team has done and when telling the team's story in the essay you can't leave them out. If that's the case I would mention them in passing in the essay, but then in the presentation expand on those big things, show pictures, talk about the impact, use quotes you may have received, etc.
Take a look at FRC 1114's Championship Chairman's Award Submission information (Essay, Video, & Presentation Board) since they won at the Championship Level last year they are a great team to learn from:
http://www.simbotics.org/about/outreach
Additionally look at:
http://www.assistingcreativeenergy.com/blog.html
ACE is a website Carolyn and I have created to help team's break down the Chairman's Award Submission. We're working on building up the resources but if you look at the blog we're posting RCA tip's to walk through and we're willing to help team's if they have questions or want help with editing.
Feel free to PM me, I love talking about the Chairman's Submission Process!