2012 Awards/Trophies

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Originally Posted by Libby K

I have no idea- but my guess is that the MAR and FiM Championships will use the usual regional trophies - since the idea is that the Championship event for the district is more like a Regional.

This totally sucks. I'd love to work with someone (or several someones) on a proposal for FIRST for a better set of trophies. Please send me an email to the address in my signature, and maybe a few of us can get the ball rolling on this.

Just as a quick side-note, I worked at FIRST HQ this summer as a Marketing intern, and I had -NO- idea the trophies were changing. Sometimes the different sub-groups and programs at FIRST seem so disconnected - so what I think we could do, as a group of concerned students, mentors, and volunteers, is write up our thoughts on the idea, as well as offer a few solutions - and send it both to FRC and Marketing staff. (After all, it kind of makes FIRST look bad to have such cheapo trophies.) And, like the request for transparency a few years ago, we can post here on CD when it is complete.

Who's with me?

I'd be on board for this as well. The more I look at our Horsham trophy, the more I want to just make my own for the team to display. There are tons of great team, off-season and other competition trophies out there; these are just sad. I'm starting by collecting images/designs of other trophies, if that'll help.