Feedback received from your Chairman's Award Submission

[Carolyn_Grace]

I'm generating this thread as a tool to collect information about the feedback that teams received on their Chairman's Award submissions over the past two-three years.

Each team that submitted at a District and Regional should have received a form filled out by the judges. On this form is a ranking system for different criteria, as well as questions at the bottom.

I'm interested in what the judges responded to these very open-ended questions.

I invite teams to let us all know what the judges had to say. You do not have to let us know personal information, but perhaps include generic comments made that may be useful to the larger CD audience.

For example:
One comment on ours this year said that they would like to see more information on the impact of FIRST on students, mentors, school and community.

[Taylor]

Handwritten comments on Chairman's Award Feedback Form from Queen City Regional:
What do the judges see as the team's main strengths?
-Great use of Twitter
-CAGE events use to help overall FIRST activity
-Community involvement impressive (blood donation)
What areas could the team focus on for improvement?
-A little confuse(sic) on start of presentation. Try to improve on structure of presentation.
-Presentation can be more enthusiasm...(sic)
Judges' final thoughts and comments?
-Impressive work w/ community & FIRST message
-Impressed w/ leadership for team .. show rookies how to do it or point in right direction

[katiyeh07]

Handwritten comments on Chairman's Award Feedback Form from the Boston Regional: Gael Force FRC 126
What do the judges see as the team's main strengths?
-This team never stalls or stagnates, it keeps reinventing itself with new ideas, new initiatives, and new energy
What areas could the team focus on for improvement?
-Obviously we are impressed by your accomplishments and we encourage you to stay active in further innovation. You could focus on increasing team enrollment in college, and communicating/ sharing your strengths and learning from other FIRST teams
Judges' final thoughts and comments:
-Congratulations on many years of inspiring performance- keep it up!

[CalTran]

Handwritten comments on Chairman's Award Feedback Form from Razorback Regonal:
Team # 2410 Team Name Metal Mustangs
What do the judges see as the team's main strengths?
Team's focus on volunterism was excellently demonstrated. Focus on NASCAR was important step in an innovation.
What areas could the team focus on for important?
Could team focus on statics, local politics and PR. Could have a Business Plan for future.
Judges' final thoughts and comments?
Communications were superior, all presenters did well.

[mathking]

I am attaching a photo of our feedback form from this year. I will try to track down our feedback from last year, when we won Chairman's at Queen City. We use our feedback form as a starting place for discussing what we are doing as a team.

[SarahBeth]

Handwritten comments on Chairman's Award Feedback from the Pine Tree Regional. Team 157, Aztechs

This was our first time submitting Chairman's ever, and I'm super proud of our kids and the feedback we got was pretty good, considering it was our first go round!

What do the judges see as the team's main strengths?
- This team has expanded a build season team into a year round team
- Great base of support and relationship with mentors and sponsors.

What areas could the team focus on for improvement
- Expand community outreach and volunteerism
- Focus on developing the FLL as a way to build team membership now and for the future.
- Use data to document success particularly to show college and career pathways and enhancing diversity in engineering.

Judges Final Thoughts & Comments
You have tremendous passion and obvious commitment to expand this team. It will be hard work but worth it.

[Red2486]

Handwritten comments on Chairman's Award Feedback Form from the Phoenix Regional: CocoNuts FRC Team 2486

What do the judges see as the team's main strengths?
-Polished presentation
-Excellent wosk in the community, keep expanding

What areas could the team focus on for improvement?
-Find internships for your members
-Mentor/start a FRC rookie team
-Gather stats on past team members- college
-Track interests in college- see if it increases by being in FIRST

Judges' final thoughts and comments:
-Great spokes-people