Chairmans Award tips

[Samwaldo]

This year is our teams 10th year!!! The same format format has been used for our chairman's award video for awhile. It is very unsuccessful. Last year I only kept it the same because I was given the responsibility very short notice (I was still working on it the morning of the presentation). This year though I have some time, so this year we are doing it alot differently. We have lots of things that make us different and a great team. But we need help organizing everything. We have a idea of a format we want now. But before we meet next, I would just like to hear what other ppl have to say.

Does anyone have any tips, for anything chairman's Award?

[1986titans]

• Dig through this particular forum. For some reason, it doesn't show all the threads by default, so you'll have to go to "Display Options" down at the bottom and fiddle around with that.
• Check the white papers, some teams publish their essays there.
• Look up the websites for past Chairman's winners, some have essays.
• Many teams put their Chairman's videos up on Youtube.

[Samwaldo]

Thank you so much! I hadn't thought about looking at team websites for essays

Any personal tips, from own experiences?

[musicgurl1329]

Here are some links to my team's videos. We have won Dallas (2010) and NJ (2011) Chairman's before.

2011- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxZWjTSgugg

2010- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vf6V...eature=related

2009- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sVvW...eature=related

I hope this helps!

[VKP]

Here is our team's winning 2011 chairman's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w03Tx...3&feature=plcp

And these guys won the Championship award last year (Hawaiian Kids 359) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9IV1chHJtg


Good luck! =D

EDIT:

Also, I wasn't on the chairman's award team (the group that did the actual essays and video) but I do know some of the ideas they worked with:

1. You don't need to describe all of your team's activities/accomplishments in every submissions. e.g. you don't need to mention that you volunteered at a certain event in your presentation, video, other essays etc. Don't try and cram everything in if you think it woudl be better to fully describe other activities in mroe detail.

2. BE CREATIVE. Our team sent three people to the chairman's presentation, and they made sure to have the judges laughing, or at least smiling, the entire time. (they had puns, singing, etc. the judges loved it) You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n5Eb...1&feature=plcp

[waialua359]

Our 2011 CA video was much better than our 2010 and leaps/bounds vs. our 2009 one.
As the OP has stated, given the task and doing it last minute vs. doing it with much more preparation and time makes a difference.

Every team works hard and we find inspiration in seeing many teams do what they do outside of building robots, BUT, were you able to capture the moment?

Our CA video was by far the hardest part of the CA entry vs. the essay, team pics entered, and the interview process. We spent almost every day working on it from day 1 of the school year......editing, re-shooting, cutting things out, putting in clips again, rewriting the storyboard, just to name some of the challenges in putting it together.
Til this day, some members of our video team still want to make changes.

[penguinfrk]

Here's a presentation I gave for one of the offseason workshops for other teams. I'm sure you can find similar resources on other teams' websites too, if there are some questions left unanswered afterwards.

[karomata]

Here's 2 of 1511's winning Chairman's award videos.
2009-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5CHlNmJh4&feature=plcp&context=C3791554U DOEgsToPDskJfJ8p5sBfRaWuPJ1tVA78H
2011-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOAeuHzcOCg&feature=plcp&context=C3aed28eU DOEgsToPDskLH3IlW2JArQb98wPtR7eKA
These videos won in Chesapeake and DC

[ebarker]

check these tips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OLsjhk-VN8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5o4IMvvDec

http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...Guidelines.pdf

[RoboMom]

Slide show from a workshop I did on awards, including Chairman's. Most of the Chairman's info came from the Senior Mentor call hosted by national judge advisors. http://www.mdfirst.org/images/storie...udging_101.pdf

Lots of hints included.

[rachelholladay]

In case you are wanting to look at a lot of different ones, here's ours. We won at the Bayou Regional in 2010 and 2011

Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp7q-..._0HWlNhJCKJJCe

Essay - http://team1912.com/docs/chairman_essay11.html

Short Answer - http://team1912.com/docs/chairman_short11.html

[Phoenix Spud]

You can view our team's Chairman's video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKx44...5viEJ80Nd0d6SU

I think the key for the video (and your submission as a whole) is to find what works for your team. You'll see stuff in our video (such as the Australian Flag) that probably won't work for your team. We also try to incorporate as much of our team as possible. For example, because we have a bunch of students who love animating, we try to include that in the video as seen with the graphics on the bottom of the screen.

[breeahnuh]

Hi,
if you don't know me or of me already, I am former member turned mentor of 359 in charge of chairmans and other award submissions and presentations. I was thinking of maybe doing some helpful youtube videos for teams needing help? I would like to know what you all (teams wanting help) think.

Aloha,
Bri

[Carol]

If you go to the CD-Media section, papers, and use the word Chairman in the search field, you will find lots of previous entries and some tips.

It is too late, but for future reference some Kickoffs - such as the one in Upper Darby PA - have seminars on how to submit a Chariman's Award entry, given by previous winners.

Here is presentation given in 2008 at Kickoff - it doesn't discuss the video **(which wasn't required then) but can still be useful. I'll see if they can post this year's slides.

http://moe365.org/moeu/chairmans_awa...ation_2008.ppt



And for the past three years (and most likely again this year) there is a conference/panel discussion presented at Championships entitled "Chairman's Award Chat - Talk with Championship Chairman's Award Teams" which can be very useful.


(http://firstd7.browndesignclients.co...eAbstracts.pdf)


**I personally think the essay and presentation to the judges are more important than the video. The essay is the first thing the judges read and you can go into more detail there. And the presentation is a make or break - you can either wow the judges or ruin all your chances face-to-face. But I don't know for sure; this is just my guess.

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by Carol

**I personally think the essay and presentation to the judges are more important than the video.

No guessing.The essay and the presentation are more important.

Originally Posted by FIRST Robotics Competition 2012 Chairman’s Award Criteria

Chairman’s Award Video (DVD) Requirement

Teams submitting for the Regional Chairman’s Award must provide a DVD (see note 1) to the judges at the event. The content of the DVD should explain what the team has done to earn a Regional Chairman’s Award. The video may be shown to the judges during the team’s 5 minute presentation time at the discretion of the teams; however the team must provide the equipment for viewing (i.e., laptop). Although it is a requirement of submission, it is not a requirement for the judging process. If the team has prepared an acceptable DVD and has met all of the criteria, the DVD of the Chairman’s Award recipient may be shown as part of the closing ceremonies on Saturday. Teams who do not submit a DVD to the judges will not be considered eligible for the Chairman’s Award and will not be interviewed by the judges.

(emphasis mine)