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Originally Posted by katiyeh07
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.
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Being in the HoF means you did something right. By being in it and having a booth and people doesn't mean much. NOT everyone I talked to knew what they were talking about. Many times they would say "you may want to talk to ____ (s)/he is on the field but maybe you can catch them" or something along those lines. THE people I wanted to talk to were not there.
Being in the HoF means you did something right at one point and time. I want to know this information to better help my community. I don't care about the award. I will try to impact my community regardless if FIRST wants me spreading jFLL instead of EARLY or FLL instead of GEAR. I will do what my community needs me to do and by winning Chairmans and them recognizing that I am "worthy" of this "honor" means nothing to ME if tomorrow one of the students I host at the EARLY or GEAR or ANY competition tells me he wants to be an engineer and work on robots instead of being the next Michael Jordan or Muse.
Its about doing something without a care for whatever recognition you might or might not get.
However since these teams have demonstrated at one point in time they were the best example in their community, maybe I could adopt one of those programs to make my impact in the community even GREATER.
I want the HoF teams to help me spread STEM more efficiently by showing me what they did to deserve the "honor" of being in the HoF.
I don't care about the award. That is my position. From now, till the end. I would however like to be spoonfed or just fed all of the information that have made other communities successful. I think it IS the spirit of FIRST and of GP to spread your knowledge of spreading STEM efficiently.
Deleted the rest. The people who I am talking to know already what I am trying to say.