[pfreivald]

I think that the greatest thing that Bausch + Lomb sponsorship brought to 1551 is the requirement that we strive to win the chairman's award every year...

We're a tiny school in the middle of nowhere with a fraction of the students/mentors compared to the teams we're competing against, we have some interesting limitations (for example, we are only allowed to do two -- limited -- fundraisers a year by our school so that we don't take too much from the other extracurriculars), and I honestly think that we don't have a snowball's chance in aitch-ee-double-hockeysticks of ever winning. But trying to win makes us a better team every year.

Not pretending to try to win. Not inventing silly shenanigans that will make us look better but that's all. But actually doing things that make our team better, our program stronger, and the experience richer.

And that's fantastic.

So the bar is set insanely high. Probably unachievably high for some of us. But what a shame it would be to lower it.