How are the other teams involved in the Hall of Fame Award and display doing with their setup design?
We are just about all set. Advisors met with our team officers and PR students about 10 days ago, we made decisions, and split up tasks. As of yesterday we are about 80% done.
We are almost done as well. It displays our team, our partnership between Xerox and Wilson Magnet and our Chairman’s award philosiphy and our mentoring other Rochester teams and Rochester FIRST. Lots of images from all of our years in FIRST.
One good thing about FIRST doing this is they actually bring the Chairman’s award to the championship and make it a part of the competition (as in visable) compared to the end of the day stealth award that it’s far too often been treated as.
I am still hoping that FIRST will see the light and post all the Chairman’s regional winners entries on their site so that everyone can see what each of these role model teams has done. It’s very hard to have a role model that has done innovative things but not have any way to find out what they are. Most of the winners have not posted their entry on their website and many don’t even have working websites. It would be great to see what was happening in Arizona and Arkansas and on and on.
I’m just trying to spread the word…
Any suggestions on who to address this issue to?
Rich, any ideas?
Thanks.
Jenny
The famed 1994 award submission in the form of a gameboard is in possesion of FIST I am told and it was the only copy.
FIRST should put the winning regional entries on display in some sort of kiosk like they have in the record stores to look up info for music and the actual award in a case in the area. There are teams in FIRST that do not even understand the Chairman’s award. This is the perfect opportunity for FIRST to educate everyone (even the winners) on truly what FIRST is about.
The Hall of Fame display in Atlanta will be a strong attempt to “demystify” the efforts of past CA winners and, hopefully, inspire many more teams to submit entries in the future. FIRST is working hard at bringing these examples forward.
However, posting all winning entries is not practical. 2003 was the first year these entires were standardized - four pages. Prior to that, all entires just needed to be viewable in “x” amount of time. So, anything prior to 2003 could be a substantially longer document, video, powerpoint, etc.
As for learning about the teams and “what they are all about” - a visit to team websites can give anyone a good idea. Here are a few:
2003 - Team 103: look under “award entries” for actual submissions from the past three years.
2002 - Team 175: All major outreach initiatives are listed and explained.
1992 & 1994 - Team 191: I highly recommend the “history” section that provides one page for each year of the X-Cats evolution. Cool stuff.
The Award and all historical winners are listed here:
http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/res_art11.htm
Rich, I’m probably in the wrong thread here and should move over to CA. I agree those are all great resources. However, since many of the teams that would benefit the most from learning about what is happening around the country will not be at the Championship, since it would be so easy (4 page electronic submission) to post this years winners on a site and since most of the teams who won this year have not posted their entry (thanks go out to 811, the only one from the first two weeks of regionals who has) and since so many teams don’t even have a functioning website! I’m really trying here. Do you really think it is impractical for FIRST to post all this year’s Regional winning entries?
The coaches and students from Team 47 has been working on the presentation of the material and I believe have completed the storyboarding and conceptual design portion. I think we are in the creation stages of the actual stuff that we will be presenting. So, I guess we are doing okay - we are not going to add the velcro material onto the laminated presentation material until we get to the venue. I would advise ALL of the HoF teams to wait until you see the material you will be attaching to before doing anything. The displays themselves require only velcro (hook side) to attach stuff to them. (we have used them in the past at our CDI events). If anyone has questions about the displays (material, construction, lighting, ect. - contact me at this website)
I think the idea is absolutely fantastic - it will be like a mobile Hall of Fame for everyone that can’t get to FIRST place in New Hampshire to enjoy.
You mean this is a one shot deal? I thought this was supposed to be a yearly thing we do for FIRST. In case we come up with any new ideas.
Ed:
It’s my understanding it’s ongoing as well.
RoboMom:
My apologies. I thought you were speaking of Championship Winners only since it was in this thread. I like your idea personally and I agree, but the four page entries are not the property of FIRST, rather they are the property of teams. There have been threads in the past (I remember one started by Rich Wong last year) that discussed the pros and cons of sharing CA submissions and I’d suggest reading those.
MeAubry:
I can’t wait to see 47’s contribution and I apologize for not including chief delphi’s student made website on my earlier list.
I was happy to finally see a Chiefdelphi site about Chiefdelphi. They’re so mysterious. 
Ed and Rich,
Its my understanding that this will be an annual thing that the previous hall of Fame members will do. I also agree that it will be dynamic in that it will be updated and different each year to include the past years involvement in continueing the effort to enhance FIRST.
Rich,
Thanks for including the students website - they have worked very hard on it (especially Dwayne and the rest of the web team)
Ed, sorry we were or are so mysterious, didn’t mean to be. I’m sure there are some pretty tired Chiefs trying to rest up after this past weekend. What an exciting ride we went on, just glad good things happened in the end.
I meant over the years.
There was never a Chiefdelphi site dedicated to just the team. Just the messageboard so no one got to know about the team outside of the messageboard (not everybody does it. It’s an aquired taste I suppose) and sometimes they just want info on your history, team members, what you do for the community and such. Y’know basic website blah, blah, blah.
Ed,
Yes you are correct (sort of). We have had them, but this year is the first time we linked them to this site for everyone to have access to. In the past we used it for internal communication and training the students in website development. We are lucky to have a few this year that have a knack for Website development and enjoy it enough to take it on and complete it.
[quote=Rich Kressly]Ed:
It’s my understanding it’s ongoing as well.
RoboMom:
My apologies. I thought you were speaking of Championship Winners only since it was in this thread. I like your idea personally and I agree, but the four page entries are not the property of FIRST, rather they are the property of teams. There have been threads in the past (I remember one started by Rich Wong last year) that discussed the pros and cons of sharing CA submissions and I’d suggest reading those.
Rich: no apologies needed. Thanks for the suggestion and I’ll move off this thread and onto the one for CA. I’ll make sure I read the past threads before I send off my letter to FIRST.
Thanks.
Jenny[/quote]
Great idea Jenny.
Question isn’t 16 in the hall of fame and if they are how did they win a reagional chairmans??? I am not clear if 16 is a chairmans awards winner or not. Too many hits in the head building the robot i guess.
shaun
Uh yeah, they have and I guess FIRST has decided that they can qualify for both awards or something.
ok so they are chairmans award winners i though you could never win twice any more??? I though that you had to earn stars or something??? Can any other hall of fame teams and or 16 explain(clarify) this to me because i am not getting it?
shaun