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Originally Posted by OZ_341
However, the soul of your program lies in Chairman's. Because this effort gives your program a larger purpose. A purpose bigger than your team.
Also in terms of community support and corporate donations your best bet is also to maintain a solid community-based program.
As the team's fundraising coordinator, I can tell you for sure that our supporters are NOT interested in our win-loss record. They want to know two basic things :
1) How is my donation helping the kids?
2) How is my donation impacting my community?
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Couldn't have said it better. I was with Erin at IMAPS convention and those are the questions at least I was asked besides, what does this robot do. They wanted know what kind of impact we are making in the community and the students. The Dean of the College of Engineering (COE), Dean Soyster, here at Northeastern asks me the same things. Yes he'd love for us to win Championships, awards, etc.... as it gives PR to the NU and the COE but also he understands that this is a program for high school students and we are trying to impact them. (course he also wants to know if any are going to to go to NU when they graduate but that's not related to this discussion).
I think FIRST has Championship as a short time goal (it also involves luck too) and Chairman's as your long term goal. As your program ages, it should be an example to the other teams regardless of what you've won, where your team has gone, etc....