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Re: The Evolution of Chairman's Teams

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Originally Posted by MysterE View Post
Hi all,

I know we are all neck-deep in build right now but I had a question that I am hoping might clarify to the community what is generally necessary to win a RCA.

How has the image of what a Chairman's team changed over the last five to ten years? What was expected of a team in 2005 or earlier compared to 2010 and so on?


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To directly answer your questions, I would say that over the whole country, the RCA has undergone incremental change over the last 5 years when comparing 2011-2016 to 2005-2010. Comparing 67 in 2005 to Daisy in 2010 requires you to traverse an ocean of impressive outreach programs (not to say 67 isn't a role model team, but I am unaware of any flagship outreach they do). Comparing 359 to 27 would require you to literally traverse an ocean, but the difference in scope of program outreach is much different.

I think to win an RCA in 2016 you need to be an organization that has a diverse but focused identity. When you think of an RCA candidate, what are 2, 5, 10 things this team is the best team to go to for in the whole venue? Need fundraising tips? Need a problem fixed on your robot or just need it running? Want help with something in the offseason? Diverse but focused means you can accomplish things across the whole spectrum of FIRST from outreach to operations to technical and be considered a resource for those things. It's a roundabout way of saying that the role model teams at regionals are obvious and reveal themselves. If you aren't that, it makes Chairman's hard. I've seen teams who don't fit these ideas at all, but to be worthy of the honor this is probably a good way to look at it.

Even though you didn't ask, others thought it might be good to weigh in on CCA so I will too. The CCA is a whole different and far more prickly beast. I'm probably someone who is in denial, but I think to be a CCA-worthy team you need to take the idea of being a go to for many different aspects of FIRST but make that a much broader reach. A CCA candidate team should be one of the best 10 teams not in the HoF at being a community resource for a variety of different things. On top of that, a tentpole/flagship outreach initiative or cohesive outreach plan would make you a worthy team.

The competition for this award has become so tight lately that I've wondered what kind of paradigm shift we can expect with the championsplit.

Something this thread has and will continue to verge into is the evolution of the Chairman's Award itself. It's a hard discussion for me to get into when I'm neck deep in the actual submission process (and the robot building thing too) and something that usually bubbles up in the pre or post champs lull. With the shift to #2champs how it will affect the award in the future is interesting.
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