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Originally Posted by JaneYoung

This IS a valuable award. Too valuable to give the teams only 3 days to draft, fine tune, and submit. Too valuable to present this glorious opportunity to exhausted teams during ship time. Too valuable not to do but where is the opportunity for teams to give their very best effort? The timing is horrible and I could just cry for all of the students and mentors who are so tired right now with this brand new opportunity making itself known to all of us - with such a very short deadline.

This is a wonderful and valuable and long overdue award.

Jane

I have to agree with you here Jane. Many of us are burnt out from the six weeks of building and late nights, but as you mentioned this is a very valuable award. It allows teams to help recognize students for their amazing efforts thoughout the six weeks and beyond. However, the timing is a little inconvenient as we are all getting a much needed rest in the following weeks before competitions.