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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence
If FIRST doesn't want to choose between College Recognition and Accomplished Student Recognition, why not make two different awards? Make the Dean's List into what they have as of today - an award intended to aid exemplary students in their college efforts, and make another award (for the purpose of this post, I will call it the Student Role-Model Award) that recognizes great achievement and accomplishment in FIRST.
The Dean's List award could be focused on Sophomore and Junior students working on the college process, and the Student Role-Model award would be achievable by students of all grade levels, from the super enthusiastic and driven freshman, to the accomplished and well-known seniors, and everyone in between.
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Because(and especially with the interview component) that just becomes too much. Also it makes them basically the same thing. It would be a confusion for "casuals" in that to "random person discovering a FIRST competition" they see two awards with arbitrary differences and could easily think, "oh so which one's better?" The complexity this would add is unnecessary (much in the sense that at some competitions, the major robot awards could, in theory, be interchangeable).
I view the "major awards" of FIRST(ie. those that recognize the ideals of FIRST) in this way:
Chairman's-Teams
Woodie Flowers-Mentors
DL-Students.
They can't give a separate award that would be defined as JUST for college recognition. That's what scholarships are for.