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

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

I know Bomb Squad wanted all RCA winners one year to submit their essays for inclusion in 16's HoF display. Not sure if they still do it.

We had a "Future Hall of Fame" display for several years where the current year RCA winners were invited to put whatever they wanted on our computer for people to access with a touch screen. It started long ago enough that a touch screen was interesting. The HoF display constraints that began in 2012 ended it.

Some teams were happy to provide all their material - essay, pictures, video - some didn't want to participate and kept their submission secret. I promised to not reveal any of the submissions until the CMP display. I did enjoy looking over them all myself, but had no judgement toward the teams who wanted to hold their cards, so to speak.

Sorry for the digression, but the FRC16 media group asked me for a "digital copy" of our 2000 CCA winning submission instead of the pieces of paper so that they could post it to our website. My answer, "scan to a PDF," did not make them happy. How far we have come!

My answer to Akash's question: I would not support "making" teams post their submissions. Chairman's teams should want to publicize their efforts, but that doesn't have to be their exact submission. And cheaters never prosper - in the long run anyway.