New Submission Format for Chairman's Award

[jonathan lall]

188 has always held the Chairman's Award in very high regard. We had a very large subteam working on our submission last year, which was in the form of a video. I wasn't really involved in the video from a direction standpoint, but you could see how much effort went into it through the subteam working away, and in the final product. Now, we write a four-page essay (or if you're really daring, maybe a photoessay or collage), where we can say anything, and where we are judged instead on how good our writing is. I can put out an excellent essay of that length in under two hours with research. Also, one should think about how these will be judged. I can imagine the judges reading one submission after the other and knocking them out by process of elimination. Anyway, this is a direct result of the overexpansion of FIRST; the judges can no longer keep up.