pic: Finger Lakes Regional - Personal Recognition Button

[Mr MOE]

Originally Posted by Bill Moore

We would love to see other teams pick up the idea and run with it at other Regional Events.

Bill's right. The whole idea was a pilot with FIRST's blessing a few years ago. The concept is fairly simple and allows any group willing to make some buttons, collect responses, and post them, the ability to get this rolling at their regional.

We have not had the time to contact other Regional Planning Committees apart from FLR and Philly (our home regional).

Are there individuals/groups out there to take up the challenge to spread this across more regional events, to hopefully have this process play out at every FIRST regional?

Here's what needs to be done...

(1) contact a representative of the regional planning committee for the regional you are attending

(2) provide them the link to this thread on Chief Delphi and ask if the committee would be willing to do this

(3) come up with a button design representing the regional (this is the fun and creative part). We have done a shot of the city the regional is in, but I suppose it could be any visual associated with the regional. The button design had the following info on it...

= Regional Name
= Year
= "Personal Recognition Award"

(4) find someone with a button maker who could make 5 buttons per team attending the regional and get them made up

(5) make "goodie bags" of the buttons themselves, directions, and recognition forms

(6) get these bags to the regional planning team representative with enough time for them to stuff the registration envelopes of each team

(7) see if the regional planning team rep would also send out an e-mail to the attending teams so they know what to expect

(8) post the info on Chief Delphi so team members know what to expect

(9) get a shoebox or other similarly-sized container to collect the recognition forms and place it in the Pit Admin area with a sign indicating that it is a Personal Recognition Button form collection box.

(10) have Pit Admin announce this a few times a day, to remind teams to participate

(11) collect the forms at the end of the regional and have them posted on the official regional website or one of the attending team's websites.

(12) enjoy seeing all the Gracious Professionalism that goes on at a typical FIRST regional!

If you have any questions about this process, let me know.

[Hiteak]

I have to say I really like seeing these given out. We filled out two recommendation sheets, but we later gave the rest to our bus driver and 3 of our mentors.