Chairman's Executive Summaries

[pHolmgren]

Each year, the Chairman's Award submission includes four or five executive summaries you can submit (similar to the Entrepreneurship Executive Summaries). Because of the issues with STIMS this year, we're having a lot of problems finding these summary prompts this year. If anyone has access to these, I (and my team) would greatly appreciate it if the prompts are posted as a reply in this thread.
Thank you!

[Jardanium]

Found these off of the Submitted Awards resource page on the FIRST Website:

• Team Number
• Team Name/Nickname
• Briefly describe the impact of the FIRST program on team participants with special emphasis on the current season and the preceding two to five years
• Describe the impact of the FIRST program on your community with special emphasis on the current season and the preceding two to five years
• Describe the team’s innovative or creative method to spread the FIRST message
• Describe examples of how your team members act as role models and inspire other FIRST team members to emulate
• Team’s initiatives to help start or form other FIRST Robotics Competition teams
• Describe the team’s initiatives to help start or form other FIRST teams (including FIRST LEGO League Jr., FIRST LEGO League, & FIRST Tech Challenge)
• Describe the team’s initiatives on assisting other FIRST teams (including FIRST LEGO League Jr., FIRST LEGO League, & FIRST Tech Challenge) with progressing through the FIRST program
• Describe how your team works with other FIRST teams to serve as mentors to younger or less experienced FIRST teams (including FIRST LEGO League Jr., FIRST LEGO League, & FIRST Tech Challenge)
• Describe your Corporate/University Sponsors
• Describe the strength of your partnership with your sponsors with special emphasis on the current season and the preceding two to five years
• For FIRST Robotics Competition teams older than 5 years, briefly describe your team’s broader impact from its inception
• Describe how your team would explain what FIRST is to someone who has never heard of it
• Briefly describe other matters of interest to the FIRST Judges, if any
• Essay (10,000 characters allowed, including spaces and punctuation, or approximately 1500 words): Judges encourage creativity of expression but the essay must clearly deliver information and facts describing what the team is all about. The essay should draw attention to the strengths of the team. This essay, along with the other information, will serve as the basis for the judges to make the decision on which team earns the Chairman’s Award.

Hope this helps!

[pHolmgren]

Thank you!

[pHolmgren]

Do you have the character limits for these?

[Jardanium]

500 Characters including spaces and punctuation for all of the Exec. Summary parts, and 10,000 including spaces and punctuation for the Essay.


Also, this document came out last year helping define some of the terms used in the executive summary, figured that it could be useful to give as well!

[JuliaGreen]

If you cannot see the Awards area in STIMS, one of two things:

1. You are logged in as a role other than a student.
2. You are a student, but your team leader has not designated your login/email as an awards submitter. Inside of TIMS, a team leader or alternate can select up to 3 students as Award Submitters.

If you are the awards submitter, you need to log in to STIMS. Click on the Youth Member Team Registration. Click on the Complete Student Registration button. On the next screen (Profile), there will be a small flashing green tab that says "Awards". Click on the Awards tab, then you can select the award you wish to view.

Julia