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Originally Posted by Steve W
...What have former Chairmans Award winners done to deserve a lifetime pass? ...
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Engineering Inspiration Award Winners I am not so sure about. I have seen teams win this with questionable devices. Some of then didn't even work.
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The Chairman’s Award ... ...remains the most prestigious team award FIRST presents. (emphasis added)
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8.9.10 Engineering Inspiration
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This award celebrates a team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school, as well as their community. Criteria include: the extent and inventiveness of the team’s efforts to recruit students to engineering, the extent and effectiveness of the team’s community outreach efforts, and the measurable success of those efforts. This is the second highest FIRST award a team can garner. (emphasis added)
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FIRST says the Chairman's Award is the most prestigious award but they do not really act that way in practice. Allowing Chairman's Award winners to attend the Championships is one of the few things that FIRST does that shows that they are walking the walk not just talking the talk.
As the Engineering Inspiration Award, read the description. There is nothing in there about a good robot. Beyond this, I did not argue for their inclusion based on robot excelence but on Chairman's Award excelences. Finally, by FIRST's own text it is the "second highest FIRST award a team can garner." If they don't get a ticket to the big dance who does?
Joe J.