Ken Patton's comments

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Posted by Mike Kulibaba, Student on team #88, TJ², from Bridgewater-Raynham Regional and Johnson and Johnson.

Posted on 5/14/99 11:00 PM MST


In Reply to: Ken Patton's comments posted by michael bastoni on 5/13/99 7:11 PM MST:




: 3) January through January
: Produce a competetive chairman's award...and for those
: of you who have never tried it...it is a year long effort.
: And it far out weighs the effort and resources required to
: build a robot.


Mr. B

I agree that this is the most important part of FIRST. The Chairman's award symbolizies everything that FIRST is about. It's not about winning the national Championship(although that would be nice!) it's about the partnership, teamwork, and community involvement. I saw Plymouth North's Chairman's award from 1998, which is the year they won it, and it totally blew my mind, I was impressed beyond belief at the work you all put it in. I would be the happiest person if my team ever put in a submission as good as your team did. And building a robot in 6 weeks is a cake-walk compared to how much energy and time is needed to make a competitive Chairman's Award. It is a year round process and many teams don't understand the effort that it takes. I hope someday my team would get nominated for the most prestigious award FIRST has to offer. And then I will consider my team to be up in the same top eschalon of teams like Delphi, X-Cats, Plymouth North, etc.

Mike Kulibaba Team 88 TJ²