Dreams, A Better World, and Favorable Energy

[Dan Zollman]

Originally Posted by Dan Zollman

Inspired by Dawgma, by Mr. Kressly, by FIRST, and by what I've seen in TSA as well, I've been working on a proposal to create a new award in TSA. The proposed award is called the Inspiration Award, and it will celebrate the same ideals in a way similar to the Chairman's Award. The proposal is at different stages on both the state level in Pennsylvania and the national level. As with FIRST's goals, this award's goals are part of this global set--spreading the above ideals and and bringing about a positive change in culture and society.

Since I originally posted about it in this thread, I thought I'd add an update about the award.

A set of guidelines and judging criteria were recently written for the abovementioned award. Pennsylvania TSA posted it on their website here:
http://www.patsa.org/students/inspiration_award.php

This award will be judged for the first time in the 2009-10 school year, and I'm looking forward to see it grow over the next few years.

Moreover, I hope it can be used as a model of how the philosophy we've learned from FIRST--that is, a philosophy that WE learned from FIRST, but one that is bigger than FIRST--can be carried into the other communities in which we participate.