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Originally Posted by ebarker
If you had to explain the CA in one word, it would be "IMPACT".
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The FIRST mission is about partnership and impact.
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Originally Posted by 2007 FRC Manual 5.4
The FIRST Robotics Competition is about much more than the mechanics of building a robot or winning a competitive event. It is about the partnership among people who are part of the FIRST community and the impact on those who participate in FIRST programs with a united goal of achieving FIRST’s mission. FIRST’s mission is to change the way young people regard science and technology and to inspire an appreciation for the real-life rewards and career opportunities in these fields.
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Following Dave's advice about
stealing from the best, here's my (verbose) one-sentence take:
The Chairman's Award recognizes a FIRST team's success in forming partnerships among their communities, educational institutions, and industrial sponsors to help change the way young people regard science and technology, and to inspire appreciation for the real-life rewards and career opportunities in these fields.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)