Poll: FIRST Dean's List - Did you submit?

[Akash Rastogi]

Submitted both but the quality was rushed, not because of the time allotted, but because we had to reduce the content down to 4K characters in the time allotted. 6K would have been much better.

[Dancin103]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Submitted both but the quality was rushed, not because of the time allotted, but because we had to reduce the content down to 4K characters in the time allotted. 6K would have been much better.

I deffinatly agree with you on the 6,000 characters.

[Dancin103]

Just out of curiosity who is going to read this award submission?

[Vikesrock]

We submitted two students but I am not happy with the quality of the essays submitted. They could have been much better with more time. Both the time constraint and the timing (right after build season) of this award were quite bad.

Hopefully everybody will be able to create better submissions next year.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

We submitted for two students. I believe the quality was fine (it doesn't take much to write 4000 characters when you have the kind of kids we do), but unfortunately due to the time constraints it couldn't really be a full team effort.

[John G]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

we had to reduce the content down to 4K characters in the time allotted. 6K would have been much better.

I agree. The essay my mentors submitted was 5k. We had to spend half an hour during lunch, figuring out which stuff to cut out.

[Vikesrock]

The way I've looked at it to avoid driving myself crazy, is that FIRST could have waited until next year to roll out this award. While that would have given many of us a better first impression, it also would have meant that the benefits of the award from this year (recommendations, seminar, entry fee reduction, etc.) would have gone unused.

I would rather these benefits go to students rather than go to waste. While it is true that the time crunch and trouble with submissions may make it so that the most deserving students don't have the best, or even any, shot at winning, I am confidant that the students that do win will still be plenty deserving.

We can either sit around and complain about what could have been, or we can focus on the upside of what we have and move on.

[kjolana1124]

We nominated someone. Yes, it might have been a little rushed, but I'm also very pleased with the submission. The entire team has their fingers crossed to see if this person will win at Hartford! (Well, everyone except aforementioned person, who still doesn't know about the submission...we would love to see the look of surprise on their face if they won! )