[EricH]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

I just looked it up in the awards section on page 7 and I believe it said to write it as you would a Chairman's and bring a copy of it for the judges to read in your pit station, that they would not be reading it on-line as they will the Chairman's Award submissions.

I would strongly suggest that Tagger read the section of the manual regarding the rookie awards and get clarification from there.

http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...wards-RevB.pdf

(I could surely be adding confusion)
Jane

You are...but only a little. You submit online, but bring a copy (or several) to the event because the rookie award judges don't read the Chairman's entries online and the Chairman's judges see "Rookie team. They don't qualify" and skip the submission. Or you could just bring it to the event, but it might be better to submit online anyway.

Oh yeah, and Page 13, same part of the manual, says that rookies are encouraged to enter a Chairman's submission. I'd just do both--online, and in print.