Chairman Award Repeats

[Madification]

After winning the Chairman's only one year and having such an amazing example of a true Chairman's team (842,) I'm proud to say that I believe our team is understanding what Chairman's is truely about. The awarding of the Chairman's is more like FIRST saying "Look at what this team has done, this is what FIRST is about" rather than "OMG! Your team is amazing!!"

Being a Chairman's team is realizing the impact FIRST could have on your community and doing everything you can to make it happen. This year, while brainstorming for our Chairman's submission, our team had to decide what was most important to put in our presentation as we had spent nearly our whole off season working to change the culture in our community. And as we thought back as a team, we realized that, while doing the things we did, we weren't thinking about how good it would look in our presentation. We weren't doing it just because we are a Chairman's team but just because that's what we've learned FIRST teams do.

Once a team has reached this mindset of what FIRST is all about, then they are a Chairman's team at heart and then just need to present it well. And you never know, you might just win it when you are least expecting. Anything is possible in FIRST, we learned that when we won last year as a second year team. If we can do it, you can to and if you need help google CocoNuts Robotics and we'll help you out!