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Re: Share or not to share CA submissions

This was my first year mentoring our team's Chairman's Award committee. It was a HUGE amount of work. I wasn't sure what a winning entry should look like. We had some minor difficulties with the electronic process (we tried converting it from the latest version of Word to the version that was required and discovered that it doesn't keep compressed image files so the file was huge and had to be re-done).

I would like to know what the other entries looked like that we "competed" against (I don't even know what other teams submitted entries at our regional). I'd also like to see the entries shown on the video screens at the Regionals, like the animation awards entries were, or made available for viewing at the regional somewhere.

Although we did not win in our regional, we accomplished a lot just by going through the process. I would have liked to have been able to make a video of the presentation and interview process (we had three students make the presentation so I wasn't in the room) so we could critique it for next year. I wish there was time to actually meet with the judges afterwards to get more feedback - I know that's hard to do but we received two sentences of feedback and that's not much to go on for bringing the team to the level we want it to be at. I would like to see the winners' entries posted on the FIRST web site so we can emulate what they are doing that makes them worthy of winning this prestigious award!