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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
Nothing mandates any requirements for Chairman's. If FLL was held that high in regards for a Chairman's award then trust me, we'd have more than 1 (yes I'm insanely pompous about our FLL success)...
Its just a matter how many you inspire, how wide spread your message is, your impact on your local and non-local community, and your impact on education.
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I don't think he is saying that they only do it to win the chairmans. Also he's saying that the FLL can't be that important that it is the #1 reason a team wins a charimans award, because if it was he feels 11 does SO much with FLL that they would have won more than just 1 chairmans award.
I have to say that alot of the time when the emcee is giving that little speech about the team that won the award 9 times out of 10 they talk about what an awesome team they are for all the FLL teams they started and the FLL comps they ran or sponsored. I can see where some people would see that i need to start 30 FLL teams this year and run 3 or 4 FLL comps to have any shot at a Chairmans award.
I feel that the chairmans award doesn't really mean what it did back when i first joined FIRST back in 2002. Yes its still an important award in most peoples eyes but i believe, now, that alot of teams are only doing most of the stuff they do to win the award.
Everything I do for FIRST I don't do for awards. If awards come from what I do and what my team does then that is awesome, but to only do something for recognition is by far the worst reason to do anything!