2016 Chairman's Award Winners

[cadandcookies]

I've put together a spreadsheet for this year's winners on Google Drive. It's almost identical to last year's but with the new events and Districts added, and some small formatting changes. You can find this year's spreadsheets at the bottom of this post.

Of note this year:

Last year I had some fantastic students and mentors help me keep the spreadsheet up to date, in addition to dozens of comments correcting errors and adding information. In particular I'd like to thank Jacob Bendickson, Brendan Marshall, and Karthik Kanagasabapathy for adding information. This year, I am looking for other people to add information. It would be great to have someone from each District area to add information to those events. PM me if you would like to do this for your area.

One of the things I'd really love to do is collect the number of teams submitting at each event. This requires someone at the event who can see the schedule for presentations, so in order to collect that information, I need someone from every event to find that information. If you are able to find that information for your event, please post here or PM me. I am planning to be at the Lake Superior/Northern Lights Regionals, Iowa, and MN North Star/MN 10K Lakes regionals, so I don't need anyone to cover those, but for any other events, we need someone!

I'm also going to do a little Chairman's Preview the Wednesday before each week for Regional and DCMP events, other than this week for Palmetto (sorry!). Unfortunately I'm not omniscient, but my previews will be based on previous years' performance and my knowledge of the teams at each event. It's quite possible I'll miss some stuff, but my goal isn't to predict the winners each week, it is to provide in broad strokes who is likely to be competitive for the award at events, so you don't have to do all the research yourself. If you find yourself missing from my preview, please don't take it personally-- I'm human and I can't cover everyone!

Lastly, best of luck to all teams competing for Chairman's at their events! Submitting for the Chairman's Award is in my opinion a core part of the experience of FRC, and I hope you're learned about yourself and your team by doing it.

2016 Chairman's Award Winners

2015 Thread
2014 Thread

[cadandcookies]

An update on events that are covered for #of teams submitting:

Lake Superior, Northern Lights, 10K Lakes, North Star, Iowa, Central Illinois, Midwest. 2/4 Peachtree District events + DCMP.

Jacob and Karthik have graciously offered to help out again with filling in the spreadsheet, so thanks again guys! This means I'm still looking for contributors from CHS, MAR, NE, and FiM in particular (this isn't to knock the other areas, it's just that those are the ones with a lot of events).

Again, please PM me or post if you can find the number of submissions at an event you are attending. In particular, I'm looking for someone at Palmetto and at each Week 1 event right now (San Diego, GTR Central, Israel). Please let me know if you can find the info from one of those events!

[D_Price]

I can for sure help out with Greater Pittsburgh.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by D_Price

I can for sure help out with Greater Pittsburgh.

Excellent, thank you!

From now on, I'll be marking whether an event is covered in the column next to the event name. "Covered" in this case means someone is collecting the number of presenters at that event. Feel free to comment there instead of or in addition to posting here/PMing me if you can get the number of presenters for an event.

Thank you to everybody who has offered their help with this project so far. You all are why the FRC community is so awesome!

[PerryParadox]

I can cover SanDiego and Sac

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by PerryParadox

I can cover SanDiego and Sac

Excellent. I already have someone at Sacramento, but didn't have anyone confirmed for San Diego yet. Thank you for collecting that data!

[Tottanka]

Ill cover Israel

[AndrewPospeshil]

I can cover MICEN (3), MILIV (4), and MILSU (5). I'll also see about Southfield (1), Kettering #2 (2), and Ann Arbor Skyline (6) if I end up going.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

Ill cover Israel

Excellent! I think that means we have all of the Week One regionals covered. Thank you for doing this!

Originally Posted by AndrewPospeshil

I can cover MICEN (3), MILIV (4), and MILSU (5). I'll also see about Southfield (1), Kettering #2 (2), and Ann Arbor Skyline (6) if I end up going.

Thank you! I'll mark those all down.


We're still looking for people to report number of submissions at the following District events week one:
Northern Virginia [CHS]
Mt. Olive, Hatboro-Horsham [MAR]
Kettering #1, Southfield, Standish-Sterling, Waterford [FiM]
Guilford [NC]
Waterbury, Granite State [NE]
Auburn-Mountain View, West Valley [PNW]

If you are attending one of those events, all we need is the number of submissions! I know I've said thank you a bunch already, but seriously, more people contributing to this makes it easier for everyone involved, so thank you to everyone contributing again!

[ebarker]

For row #2, Palmetto, shouldn't it say 4, not 3 for total wins, and 3, not 2 for the 'streak' ?

[wjd13]

I can get Granite State and Reading in NE, I'll see what else I can do beyond that. I'll talk to Brendan M as well, I'm sure he'll want to help again.

[jweston]

Originally Posted by wjd13

I can get Granite State and Reading in NE, I'll see what else I can do beyond that. I'll talk to Brendan M as well, I'm sure he'll want to help again.

If I can be of any help, our team will be at Waterbury, UMass Dartmouth, and Hartford in NE District.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by ebarker

For row #2, Palmetto, shouldn't it say 4, not 3 for total wins, and 3, not 2 for the 'streak' ?

Yeah, that was my fault. I forgot to include the current year in those numbers.

[Andrew Schreiber]

For number of submissions, do you mean total at start of season or total presenters?

[Bmarshall645]

1519, Mechanical Mayhem won at Pine Tree district in New England. The New England districts have finished and the spread sheet is all finished on my end for New England.

See everyone at district champs!