New Chairman's Deadline - Week 4

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Your not the person who runs chairman's then are you? As someone who does manage the submission of the award on my team I can tell you this is a big deal. We get a lot of footage during build season because that's when most people show up and when the most action is going on. With chairman's ending after build season I had time to edit everything and get everything together when we were no longer busy. Now I'm going to have to either get the whole thing done before build season or during which means it won't be as professional and will put a strain on the whole team.

FRC 125 has won chairmans at an event the last two years. Prior to that I was a mentor on 79, who won one in 2013. I'm also an alumni of 27. Furthermore I'm responsible for finding judges to read these essays for the northeastern district. I know both sides of this award. I know exactly how much effort it is and how much teams put into it. I also know the amount of stress it puts on judges to have to choose just one team. And I know how many hours of work those judges put in before the event reading essays.

It sucks to have the deadline this early. There are reasons for it and things you can do to mitigate it.

Gary, for your rookie teams maybe help them build a skeleton essay now. Heck they can even use it as a roadmap and plan their season and offseason activities. Could be a good exercise (especially working with experienced teams and mentors to do it)