New Submission Format for Chairman's Award

[Madison]

Originally posted by MissDaisyGirl
my personal reason for being on the robotics team is not just to learn more about engineering. in fact, i'm not interested in that at all. my main interest is computers and the reason that i valued my time w/FIRST so much is that i had so many opportunities to work w/video on the chairman's award, animation w/the 3dsmax award (which is biased anyways and i gave up on when PROS ARE HELPING EVERYONE BUT ME *bitterness*), and just plain old graphic design. but 4 pages of written word?! c'mon, i'm a designer, not an english major. what happened to the many opportunities of activities i could get into?

Well, try looking at it this way -

You still have an opportunity to do graphic design and animation work. Now, however, there's also an opportunity for an English major to join the team as well! I'm sorry you lost something you enjoyed, but it's not as if everyone dislikes writing.

4 pages of written words can be very powerful and compelling. It's been good enough to last through millenia, so I don't think that FIRST is too good for it.

Again, I think this is very positive. It levels the field of competition for this most coveted award, it reaffirms the goal of the award, and in my mind, may go a long way toward legitimizing the purpose of the Chairman's Award in a way that I've never seen.

English majors - come out, come out where ever you are!