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[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by jayjaywalker3

What is the Chairman's recap meeting?

Probably the most useful piece of non-documentation you will EVER get regarding the Chairman's Award in FIRST. It is a meeting after the closing ceremonies involving the Chairman's Award Judges, the winning Chairman's team, and other teams who want to learn more about becoming stronger for the Chairman's Award. The Lone Star Regional started doing this a couple years ago, and it's basically a way to see what won - where the current bar is set - and discuss what worked, what didn't, what the judges saw went well, what the judges think need the most work, and so on. It was an open forum for teams to discuss with the Judges anything about the Chairman's Award, and for them to tell you why they felt the winners were, well, winners.

Lucien Junkin, one of the lead mentors for 118, is the director for the Houston area (I hope I got his title right) and he asked the judges to walk us through the entire judging process from Chairman's entry all the way through the presentation to after the presentation - what the judges read, what they look at, what they expect you to leave behind (or not), and every aspect of the competition that we were clueless we even needed to consider. I really REALLY appreciated the candor in the meeting, from the judges as well as from the winning team, it was something that will certainly allow the teams who attend to be more competitive in the Chairman's Award and certainly allow the judges to be more efficient in judging.

Once again, thanks 1108 for attending the meeting. You guys have helped to teach us a lot about winning the Chairman's Award.

-Danny