New Submission Format for Chairman's Award

[Adrienne E.]

Originally posted by J 188

Frankly, this is a dumb idea, because there isn't really anything challenging or hard about writing an essay about the team's accomplishments/endeavors, as long as you have 1 person who is good at english. Given that the Chairman's Award is supposed to be the most prestigious award, writing an essay to win it basically cheapens the award.

From my 3 years on the X-Cats and the past 3 months on 229 I think that changing the chairmans award criteria might be a good idea. 191 didn't have the equitment or money or knowledge to produce a video. In my my high school there were alot of kids who wanted to participate on FIRST but weren't the best at designing and building or working on computers. They were better at writing. I think this really gives people who my have different talents the ability be able to participate in FIRST. How is that a bad thing? Although it does take some creativity away, it doesn't make it any less challenging, it might even make it more challenging just becuase of the fat that many teams don't have the greatest writters on their teams. I'm now the chariman's award leader for 229 and I'm looking foward to the challenge!