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Originally Posted by Tetraman
What I want to know, is when will a Rookie All-Star team win Nat Chairman's the year after they get Rookie All-star is going to be.
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Hm...I wonder if that will ever happen. Sure, some newer teams can win the Chairman's after being around for 3 or 4 years, but not a 2nd year team.
According to the manual, the Chairman's submission for each team should include:
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Originally Posted by FRC 2006 Manual
1. How strongly does the submission document the impact FIRST has on the learning experience of
the students, school curriculum, engineers, and/or community?
1. How strongly does the submission document the impact FIRST has on the learning experience of the students, school curriculum, engineers, and/or community?
2. Has the team explained/demonstrated why/how it should be a role model for other FIRST teams to emulate?
3. How well has the team communicated its excitement and impact within the entire school, community, and beyond (state/nation) through participation in FIRST?
4. Has the team documented an innovative way to spread the FIRST message?
5. How strong of a year-round team partnership effort is reflected? (You can define partnership in many ways, including: the partnership among the team’s students/corporate sponsor/engineers;
school/university sponsor/engineers; students/adults; community/team)
6. As a whole, does the content of the documentation exemplify the true meaning of FIRST?
Your Chairman’s Award submission should include documentation for all the above factors.
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Some fo these things, I think, a 2nd year team might have trouble doing. During the first year of existence, it is a learning experience and most rookies have a team mentoring them and helping them in the process. In their first year, rookie teams may be more focused on getting sponsors, approval from school for a team, acquiring space, mentors, etc.
One of the aspects of many team's entries is their involvement in
starting rookie teams and/or involvement in FLL and Vex. This would be very difficult for a 2nd year team, in my opinion. The team would be getting everything organized and getting the jist of FIRST, which leaves them the offseason to really effect their community as much as and older veteran team.
Also, it might be a bit hard for a rookie team to immediately be able to form itself into a model for future teams.
I'm not saying that it can't be done. I'm sure that sometime in the future, a 2nd year team will accomplish that feat, but they will have to be extremely organized, successful, and be able to get community involvement/support and spread the word of FIRST in a year, which really is not long once you add in the hectic 6 weeks called build season and then the competition season that follows.
Just my two cents, though.
EDIT: Just saw lil' lavery's post. Guess it has been done, but that's pretty amazing. In that case, I wonder how long it'll be until someone accomplishes that feat again.
