Chairman's Award at Championships

[Nate Edwards]

Originally Posted by Danny Diaz

Hey everyone.

Team 418, LASA Robotics "The Purple Haze", won Chairman's at the Lone Star Regional this year. We're all psyched about the honor of being able to represent the Lone Star Regional in Atlanta this year, but after the adrenaline of winning has finally toned down we realized we have no idea what to expect in Atlanta. Can an experienced team give us the low-down, or point us to resources on this? We don't want to show up and be told we missed a submission deadline or failed to do something important!

Some questions we have:

1. When do we sign up for a Chairman's Presentation slot?
2. Is there a Chairman's Orientation meeting?
3. Do we need to do any pre-registration for anything (we're already registered and paid up from our win at the Dallas Regional, is there anything special in TIMS we need to do to sign us up for Chairman's?)
4. Do we need to submit our Chairman's Video again in Atlanta?
5. Is there a secret handshake we need to know to get into the Chairman's Presentation room, or is it clearly marked somewhere?

Thanks so much!
-Danny

This information may be outdated but this is what I experienced in 2003 and 2005.

1. Thursday they will tell you the slot you have been assigned for Friday's interview, when I went there were two interview rooms, there may be more or less now.
2. No
3. Nothing special
4. I don't know this is new, you should bring it just in case, they aren't judging them this year though so I don't know.
5. It should be marked and you will have an escort to the room