Deans list award

[the man]

Originally Posted by Karibou

It's not submitted as a file - you copy and paste the text into the submission box.


We all had some issues with line breaks and tabs when submitting the Chairman's and Woodie Flowers essays. Has anyone tried submitting the Dean's List essays, and if so, does the same thing happen?

Thank you

[jsasaki]

It was a hassle getting the document on TIMS

[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by jsasaki

It was a hassle getting the document on TIMS

I didn't think it was possible to submit via TIMS, only via the Student Team Member Parent Legal Guardian Information System. At least that's what FIRST told me today.

[rsisk]

I didn't think it was possible to submit via TIMS, only via the Student Team Member Parent Legal Guardian Information System. At least that's what FIRST told me today.

That might be why its such a hassle

Our students submitted 3 of them today (2 different teams) and it couldn't be easier.

[the man]

We submited ours today, only one student. It was supose to be a suprise for this student but they could submit awards and found out, whoops i didnt think about that one, well now they know.

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by simi

A member of our team self-nominated himself and his essay was read by the mentor. He won at the local regional competition. No one else on the team was aware of this, the few that got the email on the 22nd were too busy to take notice. Is this a valid procedure? Seems to me the team has to be more involved in the decision making about nominations. Anyone can think they deserve the award and make claims that may or may not be true. As it is the rest of the team thinks that the most deserving member did not get the award are not happy with the outcome. Can anything be done?

Be happy for the student. Granted that there are some guidelines that are "understood", but it'd be extremely rude to say that the student doesn't deserve it now.

Team 1261 submitted Tanner (Team Leader and head programmer) as our nominee and he won!!! We're extremely proud of him and everything that he has accomplished.

[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by simi

A member of our team self-nominated himself and his essay was read by the mentor. He won at the local regional competition. No one else on the team was aware of this, the few that got the email on the 22nd were too busy to take notice. Is this a valid procedure? Seems to me the team has to be more involved in the decision making about nominations. Anyone can think they deserve the award and make claims that may or may not be true. As it is the rest of the team thinks that the most deserving member did not get the award are not happy with the outcome. Can anything be done?

Probably not. This is another outcome that should have been anticipated before the award was rushed out the door by FIRST.

Hopefully, next year FIRST allows this award to be submitted by mentors rather than students. Our submissions for two candidates on the team were e-mailed to FIRST by a mentor because the student submission path was not workable. (Our mentors were not comfortable with students reading the submissions and besides, students were in class for hours after the deadline.)

[DonRotolo]

Agreed: If two 'rogue' students self-nominate, the truly deserving team members are out of luck I suppose.

We were very fortunate to have the cooperation of the team; one of our two nominees won the award.