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Unread 08-02-2002, 01:56
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I understand that, but for some teams we do things 12 months a year. We work with the First Lego League and go all over South West Virginia. We've visited every business within a 100 mile radius*exaguration, but you get the point*.

Don't let my name decieve you. I may be a "mentor" persay, but I am younger then a lot of the seniors on the team and I took that role just so I could be involved. I try and get my team involved with this award, but they don't seem to understand the importance and prestigiousness of it. This is actually the first year that our team has put more then 2 days on it.

I respect Chief Delphi a lot. I've never heard a bad thing about them at all. And I realize that they are just another team that are extremely lucky to have such great sponsers and great people. And I realize the they have to work just as hard as any other team.

The one thing I also realize is that it makes it a lot harder for a team with 15 students, all of whom work on the bot the majority of the time, compaired to a team who has 50 students and has 10-20 to exclusively work on awards and other projects. It also makes it difficult for some teams who haven't gotten so lucky with how the economy has hit their geographical area and don't have the resources to do a professional job on it without going "out of house" to have it finished.

So in theory, yes anyone can win, but in truth, only those teams who have the person-power and the resources can win it. It was said before, it needs to be flashy and asthetically appealing. Well, that takes money and/or equipment.

I don't mean to start a fight with this. I just feel that the Chairman's Award is tainted for those who have the resources. I hope that this year with regional Chairman's Awards will help to change this...
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