Does FIRST give out too many awards? (Opinion)

[richardp]

Originally Posted by santosh

The chairman's award is basd on what you do that year. It isn't cummulative.

The chairmans award is based upon the continuing of excellence meaning in order to show that then you have to bring up stuff from prior years. It is about more than just one years worth of work. It is for that very reason that rookies can submit but can't win it! So many more things wrong with that statement that I wont go into.....

As far as the awards go the judges award exists to give a team that deserves the award an award even though the categories don't fit. In my opinion if categories don't work make them by increasing the awards. I have never seen a team unhappy because they won an award. So many people put in a lot of hard work and unfortunately aren't always given credit for their work. I think that their are not too many awards.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by tiffany34990

it though seems harder every years to get like the chairmans especially for rookie teams competing against veteran teams who have been trying for year to win this award.

Rookies aren't even eligible for chairman's. Rookie Inspiration is their equivalent.

[Liz C]

I understand where you are going with the point that there may be too many; however, all of the awards whether they have a corporate name attached to them or not set aside teams who are clearly distinctive in whatever the award criteria describes. By changing the awards, FIRST may have realized the increasing accomplishments each team was achieving, and perhaps tweaked their awards accordingly. As long as teams still value the honor associated with the awards, there is not an excessive amount.

[Anubuss]

I look at it this way. FIRST's goal is to recognize achievments made by teams. When you look at just the science/technology part you have unlimited options. Such as awards for most innovative drive train or arm divice, or even things in depth like most innovative programing method. Then there's the insperation aspect, and again, many options. So does FIRST give out too many awards? I say they don't give out enough, but only becasue they currently don't have the funds to hand out as many as they could.