[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by lynca

Panther Robotics obtained a 2.5 Million Grant to help setup those 40 teams at the KC Regional , you can see the list of teams sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. They outlined their progress for those teams in the wrap up Chairman's after the Regional.

Yeah, 1108 made this very clear during the discussion at the Chairman's recap. I did feel bad for their lead spokesperson during the recap, though, after the rigorous badgering they took from a certain mentor/coach from a past winning Chairman's team. I personally felt someone wasn't showing any graciousness in losing with the types of questions that were being asked - or more it may not have been with the questions per se, but the way they were asked.

I'm not so sure the Chairman's recap meeting was originally designed to be a Chairman's Defense meeting, but that's what it turned into - I'm not so sure Chairman's winners will be so willing to come in and present to the group if they are going to be pestered and badgered. Asking questions about how they were as successful as they were in an attempt to gain knowledge is one thing, but asking questions to cause them to defend positions or remarks is completely different.

-Danny