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Re: The Evolution of Chairman's Teams
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Originally Posted by bEdhEd View Post
Nowadays, at least in California, it takes international outreach to have a chance at the Chairman's Award. My team has been to China to start robotics programs for middle schoolers. Some other areas of the world I know teams in California have gone to is South and Central America (e.g. Brazil, Mexico) for outreach efforts. 604 has 8 Regional Chairman's Awards and they have the most in California. Looking at their program would give anyone a good idea of what a Chairman's quality team is. My team has gotten so close to Chairman's, winning Engineering Inspiration at Sacramento in 2013 and 2015. Maybe this year will be our year.
It's kind of disheartening for teams like us who can't afford trips to China, yet we do our hardest to change our community.

The Chairman's Award, at times, seems to have a price tag attached to it. And along with the price tag comes a sort of "number supersizing" where one team has to start/assist/mentor X amount of teams and reach out to X amount of people to be worthy.
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