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Re: Chairman's Award -- is the bar too high now?
I believe that both are true. While the bar is set a little high, and gets higher each time, i don't believe there is such a thing as being TOO high.
Take my team, for example. We are one of three FRC teams in West Virginia. We have begun the process of changing our ENTIRE STATE with FLL, FTC, and FRC teams all over, presentations, etc. While we do not go abroad and travel overseas to start teams like many Chairman award-winning teams do, we still do a lot. And it comes down to what the judges feel is more important (our team as an example): going overseas, or focusing on changing a state that doesn't have much excitement of science and technology at all. Again, i'm just using 2614 as an example, this can apply to anyone. I think that if the judges do their job, they will see what impact a team has had, not just how far they've reached.
There will always be teams that do more than yours. Some teams just simply have more resources or are in an area that actually needed FIRST to be spread, unlike a lot of larger cities. Some teams are just blessed with these things, and these teams will win chairmans if they use their blessings wisely. However, that doesn't mean that other teams don't DESERVE chairmans. But i do feel that a team shouldn't do things just to win chairmans or engineering inspiration. They should be doing them because they want to make an impact. And any team that does this out of their hearts deserves recognition, even without an award to show it.
Yes, the bar might be a little high, but that should be the inspiration for other teams to strive for. Not all teams will win chairmans, but most of them do, however, deserve it in one way or another.
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MARS - Mountaineer Area RoboticS Team 2614, Morgantown, West Virginia Website Facebook Page
2016 season in memory of Phil Tucker
We came to be inspired. We stay because we are. We will become the inspiration.
2016 Championship - Newton quarter-finalist, Hopper-Newton Gracious Professionalism Award
2016 Regionals - Finalists (x2), Chairman's Award, Gracious Professionalism (x2), Industrial Design
2015 Championship - Hopper Finalists
2015 Regionals - Chairman's Award, Regional Champions, Gracious Professionalism, Woodie Flowers Finalist
2014 Championship - Innovation in Controls Award
2014 Regionals - Chairman's Award, Champions, Finalist, Entrepreneurship, Gracious Professionalism, Dean's List Finalist, Creativity
2013 Championship - Entrepreneurship Award
2013 Regionals - Engineering Inspiration Award, Entrepreneurship, Dean's List Finalist
2012 Championship - Woodie Flowers Award
2012 Regionals - Champions, Chairman's Award, Finalist, Innovation in Controls
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