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Originally Posted by rsisk
EI is a near term RCA. RCA focuses over multiple years with emphasis on recent stuff. EI focus on this year and last year. That is the primary distinction.
I guess another distinction is RCA is judged by RCA judges, EI is judged by the pit judges.
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I'm not sure I totally agree with this. From what I've heard, the focus is on promoting the field of engineering in your team. As such it is a bit more focused on how a team has promoted the technical aspects of FIRST -the impact of engineering mentors on the team directly (college and career selection of students), the promotion of engineering careers by the team, the spread of the love of STEM to younger kids in promotion of engineering careers, that sort of thing. RCA may capture a piece of this, but is much broader in scope. RCA is about spreading the impact of FIRST which may or may not include the STEM focus.
It is judged in the pits, and may also not be as concerned with years of continuous effort. FIRST has said time and time again that is not the RCA runner up award.