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Re: The Evolution of Chairman's Teams

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Originally Posted by bEdhEd View Post
We view EI as a Chairman's runner up. I'm not implying that the award itself is of "close" value, just that getting IE is a step closer to getting Chairman's. If you read my post carefully, I only claim that my team has gotten close, not that IE itself is close. A lot of the things we present for Chairman's is considered for IE. I did not claim that international outreach was required criteria. It surely is not, but from what I have seen, it's a trend and it is increasingly difficult to contend with teams who do international outreach.

My apologies for not being clear on that.
I want to point out that NOTHING you say in the chairman's room, nor any of your chairman's submission items or chairman's binder is seen by ANY of the other judges, including judges deciding Engineering Inspiration. The only way any of your chairman's information is seen by any judge outside of the chairman's room is if you give it to them in the pit area. The chairman's judges aren't even allowed to discuss with other judges what they saw in the chairman's room, so they have absolutely no say in who gets EI.

Also, not only are the awards judged by two completely separate groups of judges, the awards are actually quite different, if you look at the official FIRST descriptions of the awards.

Engineering Inspiration:
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Celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s
school or organization and community.
■ Extent and inventiveness of the team’s efforts to recruit students to engineering with particular
emphasis on the most recent year’s efforts. Measurable success of those efforts.
■ Extent and effectiveness of the team’s community outreach efforts with particular emphasis on
the most recent year’s efforts. Measurable success of those efforts.
■ A commitment to science and technology education among the team, school, and community.
■ Achievement of the FIRST mission and ability to communicate that at the competition and away
from it.
■ Efforts are ongoing, not strictly concentrated on the build and competition season.
Chairman's:
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The Chairman’s Award is the most prestigious award at FIRST, it honors the team that best represents a
model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the purpose and goals of FIRST.
It was created to keep the central focus of FIRST Robotics Competition on the ultimate goal of transforming
the culture in ways that will inspire greater levels of respect and honor for science and technology, as well as
encouraging more of today’s youth to become scientists, engineers, and technologists.
The concept of the Chairman’s Award includes Regional and District Championship Chairman’s Awards,
which enable FIRST to recognize more teams for their exemplary efforts in spreading the FIRST message,
as well as their talents in organizing materials for their presentations.
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2016 Championship - Newton quarter-finalist, Hopper-Newton Gracious Professionalism Award
2016 Regionals - Finalists (x2), Chairman's Award, Gracious Professionalism (x2), Industrial Design
2015 Championship - Hopper Finalists
2015 Regionals - Chairman's Award, Regional Champions, Gracious Professionalism, Woodie Flowers Finalist
2014 Championship - Innovation in Controls Award
2014 Regionals - Chairman's Award, Champions, Finalist, Entrepreneurship, Gracious Professionalism, Dean's List Finalist, Creativity
2013 Championship - Entrepreneurship Award
2013 Regionals - Engineering Inspiration Award, Entrepreneurship, Dean's List Finalist
2012 Championship - Woodie Flowers Award
2012 Regionals - Champions, Chairman's Award, Finalist, Innovation in Controls
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