[FRC Blog] Chairman’s Award Submissions Definitions

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

This is a good thing and long overdue, but I still see two potential issues that this document seems to allude to:

• FIRST seems to value only FIRST programs. This document infers that robotics and engineering programs that are not affiliated with FIRST are not given the same if any "credit"
• The Chairman's award seems to have returned to a competition of who can start, mentor, and assist, more teams and who can run more events.

To your first point. makes sense to me.

TO #2: That is not it at all. What they are trying to do is standardize what it means to "start" ,"mentor" ,"assist" , teams. It is in no way stating how this is going to be weighted.

I do have a questions about how this is going to be enforced, if it was ever intended to be. Why have the second part of the definitions here at all unless there needs to be some sort of supporting documentation required or each mentored team listed? It makes no sense otherwise.