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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 have to comment on this, it is my personal opinion that it is not how WIDE you spread your message but how deep your message settles that is important. I would even venture to say that rather than start a half dozen teams with 10 students each I would prefer to start 1 team with 5 students and be sure those students get the attention they deserve and need.
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Originally Posted by Fe_Will
Finally, I completely agree and thank you for posting. How about more credit to teams who add to the stability and sustainability of FIRST and not just the "I started X teams, how many did you start?".
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(Do I need to say more? Sustainability is good)
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Originally Posted by EricLeifermann
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!
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I disagree that teams only do what they do to win the Chairman's I can think of a couple teams that work incredibly hard, and have for years and have never been awarded with a RCA. In other words, I agree with your sentiment but disagree with your generalization.