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Re: The threepeat
Congratulations to all multiple Chairman's award winners!
This is proving to be an EXTREMELY interesting thread...
We won the Regional Chairman's award in 2002 at the former Canadian Regional. As the first Canadian team, co-founders of the Canadian Regional, and provider of directors, mentors, volunteers, and many other positions required for FIRST to exist in Canada, I believe we were a well-deserving recipient of the award back then. Even today, you would be hard pressed to find Canadian teams and regional events who haven't had some kind of contact/relationship with Team 188 alumni. Just dropping names like: Mark Breadner, Ian Mackenzie, Karthik Kanagasabapathy, Lloyd Burns, Tristan and Jonathan Lall - should be enough of an example.
After 2002 however, our Chairman's award submission became a clean slate. Our Chairman's team actually doesn't use any material that appeared on our winning 2002 submission. It's as if our accomplishments from 1998 to 2002 never existed.
I've been VERY happy with the Canadian Regional Chairman's Award winners in 2003, and 2004. Both of those teams contributed huge amounts to FIRST in Canada, and were VERY deserving of their awards. Our Chairman's award submissions for those years were minimal at best, since we chose not to use any material pre-2002.
I'm not saying we would have won additional Chairman's Awards in 2003 or 2004 had we re-submitted our achievements pre-2002, but it would have changed the complexion of our submission dramatically.
Now are we doing it right? Or are we doing it wrong? Our team seems content in re-building it's Chairman's status from scratch post-2002. We now mentor other FRC teams directly, as well as 6 Lego League teams, and are continually producing alumni who move on to mentor other teams. We might be one of the only teams who's had an alum start a company and come back and sponsor the team... It sounds like we're making good progress!
But the question remains: Are we doing it right? Or are we doing it WRONG?
YMTC!
-SlimBoJones...
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