Importance of the Rookie Chairman's

[briholton]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack1604

I would like to start this thread stating why it is important for every rookie team to submit a Chairman's Award application. Even though it is not possible for a rookie team to actually win the Chairman's Award, ....

We won the Chairman's Award in 1993 when we were a rookie team. Oh yeah, FIRST was only two years old itself.....

[richardp]

While rookie teams may not have an in-depht history like the vet teams. They still have some history in that some of them had to go through a lot to even get a team. It also helps them to just keep sight of the fact FIRST is about more than just a robot or just a robot competion.

[dhitchco]

Barry,

we're a rookie team and will be submitting the Chairman's Award via the www.firstawards.com web site as part of our competing in the Rookie All-Star award process.

EVERY team should be doing the work on Chairman's Award very EARLY in the 6-week build period. A bit too late to discuss this now.

You wrote:

The Chairman's Award is a way to keep a history of the team up to the very beginning

It's really more than that:
-- Any good corporation will not embark (spend money) on a new business or product without first coming up with the MISSION and VISION statements. The CA award does that for FRC so that all team members are "on board".
-- By documenting your "game plan" in the CA application, you also solidify your design and build plan for the robot. Will you be a defensive partner in the alliance? Will you be an offensive autonomous ruler?
-- By filling-out the CA questions and sharing them with your teammates, teachers, and even the sponsors in your community, you become a much more complete, tightly-integrated team.

Good luck everyone in submitting CA by this FRIDAY (2/18) at midnight

[RoboMom]

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I have been holding off posting here until I got all my facts straight.

I contacted Wendy Trommer at FIRST to verify my information.
1. Rookie teams do not participate in the interview process at regionals.
2. From Wendy:
" It is clearly stated in the Team Manual in the Awards section, that rookie teams are ineligible for the Chairman's Award, which is about sustained excellence. Rookie teams may use firstawards.org to create a submission (a are required to if they are a NASA grant team), however it will not be reviewed by FIRST judges on line. If a rookie team would like to print out a copy of their submission to give to the Judges in the Pit as part of the Pit interview process, it will be used in consideration of the Rookie All-Star award. However, it is not a required piece for this award."

This means it will be very important for all rookie teams to be prepared with copies of their Chairmans entries and/or other handouts about their team in the pits when the roving judges visit.