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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
EI is the most mysterious award in FIRST.
Is it the runner up Chairman's Award?
A souped up Gracious Professionalism award that gets you to the championships?
Is it something completely different?
I have yet to have anyone give me a straight answer about the award and how you go about getting it.
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I love that it is an award that should be sponsored by
J. J. Abrams. You get it for doing the right stuff -- and it's vaguely defined so you can't go out and try to explicitly win that award. You can't win the Chairman's Award without a laser focus on checking the boxes. I don't think a team in recent memory has won the Safety Award without striving to be over-the-top in how visible their safety practices are. Very few teams accidentally win the team spirit award without making it an explicit goal.
It seems to me that if you build a sustainable winning program, EI will just kind of happen. There are no explicit requirements, but your team's practices and attitudes will just shine through to the judges in all the right ways.