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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
It would excite the students, certainly. But what exactly are you wanting to inspire them to do? A high-level robot competition can inspire people to build high-level robots, but high-level robots aren't the goal of my participation in the FRC program. I want to inspire students to become (or at least to appreciate) engineers and scientists and advocates for technology. That kind of inspiration is what the Chairman's Award celebrates.
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There is no Chairman's Award given out at the Minnesota State Championship. The goal of the State Championship isn't necessarily to inspire students to go into STEM fields after high school, that's the goal of FIRST as a whole. The purpose of the State Championship is to determine the best teams in the state, just like purpose of IRI is to figure out the best teams in the world (more or less).
Either change the name of the Minnesota State Championship to "Minnesota Robotics Exhibition", or change the qualification process. You can't have a state championship without the best teams in the state.