Chairman's Award Concerns

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Originally Posted by JaneYoung

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If any proposals are made to FIRST HQ
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I am not in favor of crowdsourcing and fact-checking in an arena-type atmosphere. It would open our community to more subjectivity, not less, in my opinion.

Jane

The reason I liked Wetzel's idea of teams volunteering to publicly perform their Chairman's presentation:

As long as we have been hosting FLL competitions, we have live video feeds of the kids presentations streamed to room(s) so parents and others can see the presentations. It is very popular. It is amazing to see the performances and creativity of teams. It is especially informative for rookie teams to see the variety of presentations.

As for FRC, I've always been a bit bothered by the almost secrecy of Chairman's presentations. On the whole, team 842 has found that sharing information about robots, robot designs and our Chairman essays have helped others and has been an asset to us as we build communications with other teams.

We have always offered and have been willing to help other teams with "Chairman's advice". This year, as always, the Coconuts previewed their presentation to some of our team. The Coconuts were awarded their 3rd CA this year. Intrateam cooperation creates a better Chairman's presentation just like it creates better robots.

Our team, 842, has not done a Chairman's presentation for a few years since we were awarded the Championship Chairman. Otherwise, I would suggest our team plan to voluntarily perform our presentation, and a Q&A on Saturday of the regional and world so newer teams and veteran can learn, criticize, interact and share. It would take some of the mystery out of a process that only three members of a team experience.
I would think other teams would want to do the same.
Not required, not dependant on FIRST approval, not resource costly… Just sharing experiences.