2012 Regional Chairman's Award

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Originally Posted by Chris is me

Does that team mean that more than one team could earn a chairman's award? Less than one?

There was a lengthy survey conducted by FIRST a couple of months ago about the award system. There were a LOT of questions about the awards process. One of the million questions was about should an award be given out if it is not earned - in other words, do they give out awards simply because they are there to be given out.

I'm speculating that part of the verbage is to move things from "winning" to "earning" and it is theoretically possible that at a particular competition an award isn't given out because of insufficient effort by the team. I'm speculating that might be the how things might go for certain awards ?!?!?!?

I doubt anything is changing regarding the "one per season / per team" on the RCA.

There is a lot of discussion on CD about how to pursue the RCA. One of the intentions of the Chairman's Video was to initiate a process whereby other teams could see what a team did to earn the RCA. That video project didn't work out so well. Posting a RCA teams submission will effectively do the same as what the video intended. It gives everyone a much clearer understanding of what teams are doing and how judges are viewing things.

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