[David Brinza]

The Team Essay (aka Judge's Page) is submitted via TIMS. Only the team leader or alternate can do this submission. Here's the content:

FIRST judges use essays to a sense of the thinking a team has put into their efforts.

The Team Essay questions include:

* Team History: Describe the history of your team such as how your team was started, who started it, how it has grown over time.
* Team Goals: List and describe the goals the team are trying to achieve this year.
* Team's FIRST Impact: Describe the impact FIRST has had on the team and the team members.
* Community Description: Describe how the team is effected and/or interacts with the community.
* Team Strengths: Describe the strenghts of the team such as teamwork, knowledge of certain systems, etc.
* Most Significant Challenge Overcome: Describe the most significant challenge the team has had to overcome this year.
* Robot and Game Strategy: Describe the teams strategy in designing the robot and competing at events.
* Most Competitive for Which Awards: Name the award(s) for which you believe the team is most competitive.
* Funding Sources: Describe the funding sources for the team and how they were engaged.
* Public Awareness: Describe how aware the public is about the team and how aware the team is about the public's perception of it.

Note: All information is optional. However, you will stand a better chance at impressing the judges if you fill in all the information.

Each of the above 10 items have a 255 character limit.

Be aware that the page has the 15-minute time-out where you can lose everything you've typed unless you save it periodically. At the bottom of the page is a session timer and the "Finished" button. Don't lose track of time or you'll need to re-enter the text. It hurts...I know.