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Originally Posted by Pavan Dave
EDIT: I also want to see EVERYTHING you do in the public domain. From every speech you have written speaking about robotics education to the Chairman's submission that you won your award with. I want yearly recaps and possibly seasonal newsletters, if not individually then by a collaboration where a team takes charge and publishes the paper full of a summary by each team and distributes it in both an electronic and physical fashion.
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I feel like a bum for just responding to this all now, but in April I hadn't planned on making it to the championships, so I didn't get around to reading this until now.
But this statement is quite possibly the most irrational thing to demand out of teams that win the Chairman's Award. It'd be like looking at someone after an iron man competition and telling them "Oh hey, congrats, but now what we're going to have you do, right now, and for every year for the rest of your existence, is basically re-do and document what you just did". Any CA winning team (both regional and national), would tell you that the amount of work you put into your Chairman's submittal is exhausting.
It's more or less impossible to document everything, but I'm more than certain if you simply went and ASKED any Chairman's Award winning team member in the HOF what it took for them to get there, they'd gladly tell you what they did in full detail. Because that's what they're sitting there in the HOF for, to talk to other people and share ideas.
I don't know where you get the idea that teams that are in the HOF should be spoon feeding teams that can't quite figure out how to get there. Any team that is trying to win Chairman's should be and is more than likely so far out and driven on their own path that they don't need directions from past winners to succeed.