Chairman's documentation requirements are incredibly onerous

[Nate_Laverdure]

We consider ourselves to be pretty good at documentation.

However, we are really struggling with the scope of the effort required to organize our outreach documentation in a way that will fit the Chairman’s Award documentation requirements.

We have about 175 items we are trying to document. At a recent meeting, finding documentation for these was taking an average of 15 minutes each. At that rate, this project will cost about 44 hours.

In addition, many of our efforts are not ideal fits for any of the CA definitions, but the documentation form forces applicants to choose one.

Who is this documentation requirement protecting? If we were going to embellish or lie about the scope of our outreach, we could certainly make fake letters and screenshots too.

Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family is dying

[wilsonmw04]

I feel completely different about this. We have been documenting our outreach for years. We are pleased the FIRST is requiring folks to document and support their statements. It keeps teams from… exaggerating their impact. If you haven’t been good at documentation, this year is going to be difficult, however, as you add more items in the coming years it should be much easier.