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I've read through all of the prior posts and now have a few things to say:

The Chariman's Award - FIRST's most prestigous award. Now, say you're on a team that basically only builds a robot and that's it. Your team focuses entirely on the robot, and therefore it's really good. - My problem with that is that's not what FIRST is all about. Of course you're bringing students together and exposing them to engineering and such, but FIRST is much, much more than the robot aspect. There's animation, CAD, Public Relations, Chairman's Award, etc. I guess my question would be why "play it safe?" Why not get out there and get more people interested in this wonderful program? Why not help out the community during the off season? And if you do do this, then why not write up something about it and try for this award? Those were just some of the questions going through my mind. Ahem, back on track - Chairmans Award Mandatory?? Well, it would have some positive and negative effects. It could jump start some team's motivation problems, or whatever it is, that keeps them from getting out there in their community and doing what FIRST needs. However, this could also take away from the many teams that already strive to do so much. Chairmans Award's status could fall from the highest award to a lesser distinguished award.

But really, if you do the community service and the starting of other teams just for Charimans Award... you're missing the whole point of it. Forcing Chairmans Award would kind of be the same idea... people would miss the entire point of it.

Hopefully that made some sense...
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