the got shafted award

[jayjaywalker3]

The worst thing about not getting an award though is that it is like your teams enormous effort went completely unrecognized. How can you tell if people have noticed you or not?

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by jayjaywalker3

The worst thing about not getting an award though is that it is like your teams enormous effort went completely unrecognized. How can you tell if people have noticed you or not?

Unless you're talking about some other team...didn't StuyPulse get Engineering Inspiration in NY? If i'm correct, congratulations on that

[jayjaywalker3]

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

Unless you're talking about some other team...didn't StuyPulse get Engineering Inspiration in NY? If i'm correct, congratulations on that

Yeah we did. I wasn't speaking of my own team. Not now anyway. At the NYC regional I know we were definitely recognized, even if we didn't win that award. This post reminded me of the NJ regional where we didn't receive anything and it didn't seem like any team noticed us at all. I really don't know though seeing as I have a very limited view of things. The only team that I really feel like appreciated us were one of our alliance partners.

[Kim Masi]

Originally Posted by jayjaywalker3

The only team that I really feel like appreciated us were one of our alliance partners.

I know its great when other teams appreciate and recognize you, but what about self-recognition? That's the most important part of FIRST, you have to recognize yourself before you can recognize other people.

Every team spent 6 weeks designing, building and learning. I think getting through that is enough of an award for everyone.

It is hard when your team works so hard towards an award submission (especially chairmans) and then you watch another team celebrate. (I know, it happened to us in Boston.) But look at that team: see what they did, and learn how you can improve your own program, your community, and your team's future.

The biggest award for me this season was when a freshman girl on our team wrote me a letter talking about all her big plans and how she cant wait to get the ball rolling for next year. She wrote that she was sad we didn't get chairmans, but was ready to try again for next year. Her excitement reiterated for me why I do FIRST.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by jayjaywalker3

Yeah we did. I wasn't speaking of my own team. Not now anyway. At the NYC regional I know we were definitely recognized, even if we didn't win that award. This post reminded me of the NJ regional where we didn't receive anything and it didn't seem like any team noticed us at all. I really don't know though seeing as I have a very limited view of things. The only team that I really feel like appreciated us were one of our alliance partners.

Are you kidding me!?! lol, MORT was under you guys cheering for you from time to time! You are never left unnoticed, trust me. I personally love StuyPulse's robots and the team members.

You were definitely noticed, sometimes they just can't show that to teams in the form of awards.

[jayjaywalker3]

Well its not about awards for me at all. I guess I just didn't notice you guys cheering for us. Probably because I am dense. Just after NJ I didn't feel like anything was said about us. It was amazing though to be spoken about on predictions for week 6. That was all we talked about in school and it was awesome. Thank you for cheering for us and thanks to other teams who cheered for us. I think one problem is that I feel other teams dont like us because we have had leaders and other members in the past who were not so GP. We also have members now who are not so GP and may give the wrong impression. Really though. I am pretty much a noob on our team. I just feel like our team is so isolated from the grand first community unlike many other teams such as yours. How do we become more involved?
(I am not speaking for my team just for myself to try to help my team)

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by jayjaywalker3

Well its not about awards for me at all. I guess I just didn't notice you guys cheering for us. Probably because I am dense. Just after NJ I didn't feel like anything was said about us. It was amazing though to be spoken about on predictions for week 6. That was all we talked about in school and it was awesome. Thank you for cheering for us and thanks to other teams who cheered for us. I think one problem is that I feel other teams dont like us because we have had leaders and other members in the past who were not so GP. We also have members now who are not so GP and may give the wrong impression. Really though. I am pretty much a noob on our team. I just feel like our team is so isolated from the grand first community unlike many other teams such as yours. How do we become more involved?
(I am not speaking for my team just for myself to try to help my team)

If you really do feel that way, learn from your team's mistakes or flaws. Evaluate them and see what changes need to be made. If you find a problem or someone that makes the entire team look bad, then try to confront them about it nicely. I know that people on here always say that team members create your team's reputation, but also don't forget that we don't truly penalize or judge the whole team based on a few people and we are all very forgiving.

[Leav]

Originally Posted by jayjaywalker3

The worst thing about not getting an award though is that it is like your teams enormous effort went completely unrecognized. How can you tell if people have noticed you or not?

I can sympathize with that... I think we all can... we all just want a real pat on the back and an honest "good job!"....
just because you didn't win an award doesn't mean that your hard work went unnoticed or unrecognized... sometimes it's just a hair separating the guy who gets the award from the guy who doesn't...

after you put in any amount of effort sometimes all you have is knowing that you gave it your best - but to know that about yourself and your team is worth much more than any prize in my opinion.

-Leav

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by jayjaywalker3

The worst thing about not getting an award though is that it is like your teams enormous effort went completely unrecognized. How can you tell if people have noticed you or not?

Let's think about this. 50, 60, 70 teams at a regional. About a dozen judged awards. Seems like most of the teams don't get their validation through awards.

You tell if people noticed you by the conversations they have with you.