[FRC Blog] The Woodie Flowers Award and Two FRC Championships

[FrankJ]

Please don't take this as disparaging Woodie Flower award winners. They are all amazing. Nor even the process really. But the whole thing is sort of a meh to me. For every Woodie Flower award winner there are a plethora of mentors deserving of the award. Many on them mentor teams that the members don't know enough about the award to write an effective application. The density of Woodie Flower finalist between regionals and districts is another disparity. The award is not part of district events already. As for as I know it has nothing to do with how well the team performs either. I don't see awarding one or two annually materially effects this other than keeping the award a little more exclusive. The head scratcher is going to when to award it since there is not a final ultimate event

Once again please don't see this as whiny or too critical. It is more of an observation. All the Woodie Flowers winners or finalist that I know are great people and deserving. Woodie is one of my heroes.