Should Chairman's Winners Be Required to Publicly Post Essays?

[PayneTrain]

Working with a team who has spent 3 years re-dedicating to work towards their first RCA and a team now beginning the long haul to a CCA (mostly in outreach/marketing/awards submission areas) I'm stuck. On one hand, a lot of team already post their award submissions because it falls in line with their mission to improve the program on a regional/state/national/international level outside of their team number. On the other hand, if the teams really believe in that mission and FIRST receives the submissions in plaintext anyway, why not release them?

Yet, maybe some teams consider themselves to be role model teams by what they do and not what they submit for awards, so basically I'm flip flopping while typing and will probably change my opinion a few times more even after this thread dies.

EDIT: I'm all for compromises, so maybe submissions could include a check-box for something like "FIRST can publish and reproduce this awards submission for purposes of furthering the mission of the Chairman's Award"

[Koko Ed]

We would have love to display our Chairman's winning design (I was told it was in the form of a board game) from back in '92 but I am sad to inform the masses that it was lost forever many moves ago.