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Re: Chairman's feedback form: Gracious Professionalism

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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV View Post
Steve, this is a debate that is much better had in person but I don't hear people bring this side of the argument up enough and I think it's something the entire community might need. Our team doesn't do any of the things we do for other teams because of the award, if the award didn't exist we would happily give away parts & advice like I always do. We would invite teams over and help them build their robots, we would still post in our build blog every night and share our designs.
As head coach I struggled with this one. We have not submitted for Chairman's for years and generally it was because we were simply too busy. Last year and this year we had more students, more time and energy, and ample things that we could say to demonstrate we met the requirements, but again decided not to. Right now, we're striving to be the best examples we can be of what FIRST can do for students and the community because it's true and it's the right thing to do. We felt like Chairman's might lead us away from that mindset into doing things so we could win an award. That didn't feel right. Notice that I am only speaking for myself and my team; I am not saying that other teams have the same issues or should reach the same conclusion. But this winter, we had just come off a successful run in a different competition (unnamed here) in which we took the opposite tack and we ended up feeling a little icky, and we definitely knew we were angling our efforts in community service to win an equivalent award.
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