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Originally Posted by sanddrag
I agree with the changes made to the Chairman's Award process for 2015, and I hope to see good things come from these changes.
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I understand not wanting Chairman's to fell like a checklist. I've definitely had discussions with my team about how we know we are bad at some things on the checklist but that's not what the award is about and that there are plenty of important part of embodying the ideal of FIRST that aren't covered in those check boxes so it's okay if you aren't masters of all of them.
With that being said, teams need individual feedback. I've seen a bunch of published Chairman's presentations and my team and I have read dozens of Chairman's Award essays and watched more videos than I want to count. With all of that we still were in desperate need for direct feedback last year, which we got from the judges at the Dallas Regional. On the field you know pretty quickly how your robot stacks up against everyone else but without feedback it's really hard to tell what parts of your presentation you aren't doing well. It's not about starting one more FLL team it's about learning to better communicate what your team is doing.
Every team does a ton of great work and it's often not their work they need to improve but how they present it and what parts of their work they highlight for the judges. This is to me is the most crucial part of the judge feedback, the boxes are useful but for the most part a team knows about where they fall. The feedback about specific points the judges found interesting or different are also useful. Something you think every team does could be very unique and you don't know until a judge tells you.
Also a major new thing in the Chairman's process that I didn't see any one highlight.
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■ Enter in a link through YouTube for your official Chairman’s Video (you will still be required to bring a copy to each event you are eligible at).
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This means Chairman's videos must be completed at the same time as the essay now. Where before you had until your interview to complete the process.