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Re: Interview room & judging panel (rookie questions)
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Originally Posted by RoboMom
I have been holding off posting here until I got all my facts straight.
I contacted Wendy Trommer at FIRST to verify my information.
1. Rookie teams do not participate in the interview process at regionals.
2. From Wendy:
" It is clearly stated in the Team Manual in the Awards section, that rookie teams are ineligible for the Chairman's Award, which is about sustained excellence. Rookie teams may use firstawards.org to create a submission (a are required to if they are a NASA grant team), however it will not be reviewed by FIRST judges on line. If a rookie team would like to print out a copy of their submission to give to the Judges in the Pit as part of the Pit interview process, it will be used in consideration of the Rookie All-Star award. However, it is not a required piece for this award."
This means it will be very important for all rookie teams to be prepared with copies of their Chairmans entries and/or other handouts about their team in the pits when the roving judges visit.
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Is that new to this year? I was on 1390 last year (rookie) and did the interview process. The rules read the same as it does this year, so I have been believing that 1604 this year would also do an interview and our submission would be read over by the judges just as if we were competing for the Chairman's award. I see this did come from an official, but I want to be absolutely sure on this because I have been preparing for the interview process for some time now. If nothing else, could a rookie team possibly sign up to present anyway?
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