The Chairman's Award Checklist Challenge

[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by IKE

I still wish RCA committees could give out a RMT banner similar to the old website banners for Role Model Teams. While I understand the need for only 1 winner, I would really like to see an arean of RMTs called out with the winner selected from that group.

Love this idea.

[BigJ]

Our checklist, though a spiritual and not physical one, is very similar to IKE's. One more thing that 1675 does is try to have a "theme" that ties our submission together, from essay to presentation, props, and judge handouts.

In 2013 we went with a comic book theme, as the "idea" behind our team is that we are a group of STEM superheroes (The Ultimate Protection Squad).

Our judge handouts this year were comic books, with stylized filters applied to our pictures, comic-style speech bubbles, text boxes, and font, and even a full page "ad" from one of our sponsors using an actual magazine ad we obtained from them.

Our presentation aid was a giant comic book that folded out into boards of pictures and text when the pages were turned, retrofitted from a storybook we used for a previous year's theme.

The presentation we did last season was a skit, where 2 of the presenters played the part of the team (superheros), and one was the villain ("Dr. Ignorance"), which along the way explained the partnerships our team has formed and the efforts we make as a team. Some of us were a little uneasy about the skit going "too far" into hokey/corny territory, but it went over well with the judges.