pic: Finger Lakes Regional - Personal Recognition Button

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by esquared

A very cool idea, and was a great way for people to hear the stories that make up the basis of gracious professionalism. Given there is only 1 GP award, given to an entire team, most of these stories which are fundamental to the working of FIRST will go unrecognized.

The FLRPC/MOE should forward this to the planning committees for other regionals, it doesn't take much time for a team member to write up and it certainly means a lot to the person it was awarded to

--Eric

Eric,

You hit the nail on the head with your explanation. MOE has been putting together PRA buttons for the last 3-4 years, after we recognized that beyond the Organizational Awards, and the Team Sponsored Awards, there was a gap in recognition for those folks who do so much to help make a FIRST event such a success. Yet, there were very few personal awards given (Volunteer of the Year and Woodie Flowers). PRA is one attempt to fill that gap. [Miss Daisy, Team 341, also has taken on this task with their personal recognition efforts at the Championship.]

Initially, we only had our own team members award them, but quickly realized that other teams should be included in recognizing deserving folks. We would love to see other teams pick up the idea and run with it at other Regional Events.