[AllenGregoryIV]

I'm all for sharing but I also don't think sharing should ever be mandatory. Once you make something mandatory you can only make people upset. The people that want to do it willingly will do it anyway.

I do however think there are lots of ways that we as a community can encourage more sharing of all the things that teams do including the Chairman's award.

FRC-Designs has been a great resource for getting teams to share the CAD files for their robots. Why don't we have something similar for Chairman's teams? (It's been on my list of things to do for about a year, but I am awful at web programming and haven't had a student who is good at the back end part of it either) Having a central database would not only help encourage people to share but would make them far easier for people to view. It's hard to find all the ones that are posted. I have a pretty large collection that I give to students who write the essay every year so they can look through them without having to hunt them down there selves. The website could also have the executive summaries, photos, presentation scripts, videos, slides, and everything else that goes into a Chairman's Award winning submission.