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Let's see Chairman's summaries!

As Kyle from 311 said, congrats to all of the Regional Chairman's Award winners:

GLR - 1 - Pontiac, MI
SoCal - 22 - Chatsworth, CA
MMW - 45 - Kokomo, IN
Buckeye - 49 - Saginaw, MI
WMR - 74 - Holland, MI
NYC - 121 - Middletown, RI
UTC - 131 - Manchester, NH
Lone Star - 148 - Greenville, TX
Seattle - 159 - Fort Collins, CO
Mid-Atlantic - 175 - Windsor Locks, CT
Canada - 188 - Scarborough, ON
Silicon Valley - 192 - Palo Alto, CA
SBPLI - 311 - East Islip, NY
KSC - 342 - North Charleston, SC
St.L - 343 - Seneca, SC
Philly - 365 - Wilmington, DE
VCU - 435 - Raleigh, NC

First of all... these are all awesome teams. They all deserve the credit and recognition. The unfortuneate thing is that there are sooo many other teams who didn't get Regional Chairman's Awards who deserve the recognition also.

But... on to my point. I am familiar with some of these teams, but not all of them. So... I assume that no one knows all of these teams and the great things that they do to deserve their Regional Chairman's Awards.

At the Championships, one team will be recognized as the Chairman's Award Winner, and we will all learn why that team is so deserving. But... I'm assuming that the other 16 teams will not be profiled during the awards ceremony (but it would be cool if they did).

So... here is what I propose:

All of these finalists could post their Chairman's Award highlights. This is not to judge each other, but just to see what all of these teams do. I'm sure that there are some really inspiring and creative things that these teams are doing, but we simply don't know the stories.

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So... I'll go first. Here is team 45's Chairman's Award Summary:

Community Involvement:
..... The "Bona Vista Project": We took our 1999 robot (TKO) arm, mounted it on a platform, added a ball grabber and built a 7 ft. box around it. This "TechnoBox" was developed as our fall project and given to a local rehabilitation school for physically handicapped and special needs kids and adults. There is also some other neat stuff on the "TechnoBox". This is something that we want to add things to over the years.
..... The "Ball Drop Project": we have been operating a New Year's Eve celebration event since 1999. A lighted ball was built, along with a light rope, by the TechnoKats. We host this annual celebration in downtown Kokomo for the community.

Mentoring:
..... Within the past 2 years, we helped start and mentor 7 FIRST Lego League teams in the Kokomo area. These teams are pretty much self-supporting, but our students still help out when they can.
..... TechnoKat seniors are given scholarships for their service and some have been awarded big FIRST scholarships in the recent past.

Helping the FIRST Community
..... We actively mentor other Indiana FIRST teams (2-3 per year)
..... We hosted a FIRST workshop at Ivy Tech State College for all of the Indiana FIRST teams.
..... We published mechanical designs, software, and a team handbook on various internet sites. These resources are all used by numerous FIRST teams.
..... The "Indiana Robotics Invitational" has been hosted by the TechnoKats for the past two years in Kokomo.
..... We hosted a remote kickoff in January 2002 in Kokomo for midwest teams.

Partnership:
..... A new partner was added to the TechnoKats this year: Ivy Tech State College. Ivy Tech brings CAD/Animation instruction and the use of their facility to our partnership. This addition has dramatically elevated our animation team and has provided opportunities to more Kokomo High School students to get excited about CAD and Animation. The partnership won an Indiana state vocational education award in February, 2002.

For those of you who want to view our Chairman's Award video, it will be on display in our pit at Nationals. We'll have a gaudy canopy with a PC projector and a viewing screen.

OK... I'm done tooting our horn. Now it's time for the rest of you to toot. I'm sure that there are some awesome stories, projects and examples of inspiration out there... let's hear 'em!

Thanks for listening,
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Great idea Andy- but let's not just hear from those who won, but from anyone who has their info online and is interested in sharing. Some teams won judges awards based much off their chairman's award submissions and interviews (T190 got an award for "Innovative Outreach" from our CA Submission, and I believe I heard other awards given out that sounded very similar).

Many teams have interesting and exciting ideas for promoting FIRST, getting students involved, etc... and I think it would be great to hear from everyone, including those who won!



T190's executive summary can be found at:
http://www.mycrazysite.com/chairmans...g/exec-sum.pdf

And the think to watch our Chairman's Award on the web is:
http://www.mycrazysite.com/chairmansaward (it will automatically start running.. lag may cause some problems with downloading, but you can catch the drift).

A general summary of our submission:

Community:

- In 2000, T190 provided over 30 demos
- In 2001, T190 provided over 50 demos
- We've demonstrated to over 10,000 people to encourage involvement in FIRST, FLL, and Science & Technology in general
- We've provide demonstrations to girl-only audience and have reach over 200 girls with this demos.

FIRST @ Home:

- Hold Mini-FIRST: prep high school students for competition and get them excited
- Training classes
- Host Battlecry @ WPI
- Full-time scholarship offered every year since 1996 (2 offered every other year)
- 2 week public robotics school over the summer for 10th & 11th graders

Diversity:

- Over 100 freshman sign up for team every year
- All hs juniors are given roles on the team
- Current team members come from over 20 different teams
- Have started up over 4 teams and mentor many others

The Six Weeks:

- Team hierarchy organizes students who run all aspects of the team
- Technical Seminars offered for basics of machining, pneumatics, motors and controls
- All students put on teams for brainstorming
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Summaries....

Some team chairmans award summaries can be found here

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&threadid=3423

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Team 365 Chairman's Award Summary

Yes, this is a great idea. Thanks for suggesting it, Andy.

The key points of Team #365 (DuPont Miracle Workerz) entry were...

* our team evolved from a 35-year old Engineering Explorer Post which was sponsored by DuPont. The goal of the Explorer Post was to provide information on engineering and engineering careers to local high school students. The program consisted of information sessions, local site tours, and hands-on engineering projects. Three years ago, we were approached to incorporate a FIRST robotics team into our program. FIRST exploded and basically took over the program, which is now a robotics club sponsored by DuPont.

* we are open to any high school student and have developed a team comprised of students from multiple high schools. Last year, our students came from 11 different high schools from three different states (Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland). This year, we had students from 8 schools from three different states and a home-schooled student who travels two hours one way to come to our meetings.

* we have an excellent relationship with our sponsoring organization, DuPont. We have integrated into the company significantly that we have attend the Company's key technology event (TechCon), are present for Take Our Daughters To Work Day, have a variety of internal presentations, and are working on a primer for starting DuPont-sponsored teams (due sometime next season).

* the Miracle Workerz have sponsored the only two FIRST Lego League teams in Delaware and we assisted a team in Pennsylvania this past season. Our team ran a rookie orientation event and team members actively assisted rookie teams as needed. Our team members ran a rookie FLL event in Delaware this past year, the first in the state.

* we have assisted Team #341 in the organization of their Ramp Riot event and, through these learnings, are going to inaugurate our own invitational event (to be named soon - send your suggestions) this October in Delaware.

* we have given demonstrations to many organizations, ranging from Tech Summit (a technology career event for all 9th graders in northern Delaware), many of our students' high schools, many local events, professional engineering society events (NSPE, Society of Women Engineers, etc.), and the government (Delaware State House, Pennsylvania State House, Science Day in Washington, D.C., etc.).

* we have communicated the FIRST message many times to our local community, which resulted in the initiation of a new team last season (Team #565) and have provided assistance to a number of other teams (and mentorship to rookie team #834 this season).

* one of our goals is to grow FIRST in the northern Delaware area. We do this by using our established networks to approach potential sponsors and high schools. We offer "seed positions" on our team for adults who would like to start a program, but first want to learn more about the process. Currently, we have three teachers involved from a "seed" perspective with hopes that they will start their own FIRST teams in the future.

* we developed our own team colors (lime green and black), robot name - MOE (Miracle of Engineering), team name - Miracle Workerz, very recognizable team cheer (OhOhOhOh - clap-clap clap-clap-clap GO MOE!!). made banging green and black sticks a signature annoyance (we hand out green ear plugs also), and have created a very unified look to our team and robot. This unified marketing approach has even resulted in DuPont businesses approaching our team to ask us who we "hired our marketing people." We laughed and told them we are just a bunch of high school students and engineers.

That's MOE and The Miracle Workerz in a nutshell.

Good luck to all Regional Winners at the Nationals!

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Having gained so much knowledge, experience, and so many memories ever since our rookie year in 1998, it was our greatest ambition to give others the opportunities that we had. Last year we assisted team #610 with their rookie year, and that experience served to further motivate us to organize a regional FIRST event in Canada.

Starting at the end of the 2001 robotics season, our team did presentations and robot demos all over the Greater Toronto Area, building a local team basis and attacting corporate sponsors - requirements for the creation of a new regional. We also held several seminars for control system design, and general info.

Meanwhile, we continued our annual robot demos at various sponsor events and local elementary schools, with the objective of sparking an interest in engineering in young kids. We also held various fundraisers, raising not only money for our team, but awareness of our team's involvement in FIRST, within the community. A local band wrote a theme song for our team, entitled "Blizzard".

As well, we formed strong partnerships with local universities, through the numerous Team 188 alumni enrolled in engineering and science programs (in the universities).

Come January 2002, our team set up a remote kickoff in Toronto for all the Canadian Regional participants. We also designed and published the Canadian Regional website, for teams' future reference, and discussion about various robotics-related issues.

Throughout the 6-week building period, we assisted many of the 23 new Canadian teams, both through the Canadian Regional website, and in person; lending spare parts, distributing sponsor-provided parts, etc.

In regards to our own robot - students, mentors, and engineers worked together to plan a building "calendar", in which brainstorming, prototyping, building, and practising were alotted a specific number of days/weeks. We strove to stick to the plan we had set for ourselves, and instead ended up finishing a week ahead

You can download our Chairman's Award Video at our website.

Thanks & good luck! And for those who don't already know, you can find us at nats by looking for the red & white-Maple leaf uniform
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TEAM #365 Chairman's Award (continued)

Sorry for this additional post, but I forgot some important points about our Chairman's Award entry...

* We inaugurated the MOEwards this season. In previous seasons, we presented awards to teams, but this season we "kicked it up a notch." The MOEwards look sweet. The nice thing is that they were free and our team members were actively involved in making them. The award categories are true FIRST - Gracious Professionalism, Safety, Functional Integrity, etc. The awards themselves were made of scrap CORIAN(tm) material that was donated from DuPont. The material was engraved for us and students bonded, colored, and routed the finished products. For a list of all who received the first set of these beauties, check out our website at www.moerobotics.com under competitions. More will be presented at Nationals. See our award coordinator Jim McGeehin for more details!

* Our team is fortunate that we have many parents actively involved in the team. This season, we created the MOE Boosterz, which consists of team member parents, many who are full team members due to their contributions to the team. Some areas where the parents assist are in Team Sustenance, Giveaways, Scholarships, Permission Slips, Playing Field Construction, Finances, etc. We salute all of our MOE Boosterz this season - we could not have done it without you!

* We realize that the engineers and adult mentors are sacrificing significant family time during the season. Last season, we had special shirts made up just for the spouses and significant others who sacrificed also while the season wore on. The shirts were labeled MIRACLE WORKERZ WIDOWZ, because these folks were, indeed, widowz (or widowerz) for the first few months of the year. As you can guess, these jerseys are now collectors items!

* Our MOE UPPET! After we shipped L'il MOE last year, our students were looking for something to do (robot withdrawal!). They developed our signature UPPET that was worn by a number of folks last year, including our famed uppetologist, Andrea Tribo (Ducky). The uppet became more than a mascot for us last season. We hope to continue the tradition at Nationals this year, which will be the inauguration of our MASCOT COMPETITION. Please feel free to compete. Info will be made available.

That's it.

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