Chairman's Award
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The Chairman’s Award was created to keep the central focus of the FIRST Robotics Competition as our ultimate goal for transforming the culture in ways that will inspire greater levels of respect and honor for science and technology, as well as encourage more of today’s youth to become scientists, engineers, and technologists. The Chairman’s Award represents the spirit of FIRST. It honors the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate, which embodies the goals and purpose of FIRST. It remains the most prestigious team award FIRST presents.
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History
Before 2002, the Chairman's Award was only given out at the National Championship (now called "The Championship Event"). Due to the amount of entries received, and the quality of them, FIRST wanted to recognize more for their outstanding work in the community, while lightening the load of the judges. In 2002, a regional Chairman's Award was given out. Each team who wants to go for the award must submit it at ONE regional event they are going to. Then those teams in each regional go to a judging panel to present and have a questions and answers session. In 2002 and before, Chairman's Award submissions could be submitted as a video or other multimedia presentation; but in 2003 and after teams were limited to only an essay for submission, but they could present a video or other multimedia presentation during the presentation.
Procedure
As of 2005, the judging process is as follows: a team has 5 minutes to present what their team has done and achieved over the year/years without interruption by the judges (usually 2, sometimes 3). Because of a strict time limit, if the buzzer goes off in the middle of the presentation, they must move onto the next part (the buzzer is usually an egg timer). After the presentation, the team goes into a questions & answers session with the judges, with judges asking questions pertaining to anything presented in the presentation, team involvement in changing their personal lives and aspirations, team fundraising, and other questions. Since the Chairman's Award is separate from the robot, specific technical questions about the robot are very rarely given.
Championship Winners
The following teams have won the Championship Chairman's Award, the highest award in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
| Year | Team | Official Team Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 236 | Dominion Millstone Power Station & Lyme-Old Lyme High School |
| 2008 | 842 | Honeywell / Arthur M. Blank Foundation / Science Foundation Arizona / Intel / Vegas Fuel / Wells-Fargo & Carl Hayden High School |
| 2007 | 365 | DuPont Engineering/ DuPont CCRE/ First State Robotics & MOE Robotics |
| 2006 | 111 | Motorola & Rolling Meadows High School & Wheeling High School |
| 2005 | 67 | General Motors & Huron Valley Schools |
| 2004 | 254 | NASA Ames Research Center/Laron Incorporated/Unity Care Group/Line-X of San Jose/PK Selective Metal Plating, Inc. & Bellarmine College Preparatory |
| 2003 | 103 | NASA/Amplifier Research/Custom Finishers/Lutron Electronics/BAE Systems & Palisades High School |
| 2002 | 175 | Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International/The New England Air Museum/Techni-roducts/Veritech Media & Enrico Fermi High School |
| 2001 | 22 | NASAJPL/Boeing/Rocketdyne/FADL Engineering/Decker Machine & Chatsworth High School |
| 2000 | 16 | Baxter Healthcare Corporation & Mountain Home High School |
| 1999 | 120 | NASA Lewis Research Center/TRW, Inc./Battelle Memorial Institute & East Technical High School |
| 1998 | 23 | Boston Edison & Plymouth North High School |
| 1997 | 47 | Delphi International & Pontiac Central High School |
| 1996 | 144 | Procter & Gamble & Walnut Hills High School |
| 1995 | 151 | Lockheed Sanders & Nashua High School, now BAE Systems & Nashua High Schools |
| 1994 | 191 | Xerox Corporation & JC Wilson Magnet High School |
| 1993 | 7 | AT&T Bell Labs & Science High School |
| 1992 | 191 | Xerox Corporation & JC Wilson Magnet High School |
Regional Winners 2005
- BAE - 501
- Finger Lakes - 340
- NASA/VCU - 384
- Peachtree - 1002
- Sacramento - 393
- UTC Connecticut- 236
- Florida - 79
- Great Lakes - 65
- Arizona - 842
- Pittsburgh - 1014
- St. Louis - 931
- Pacific Northwest - 957
- SBPLI Long Island- 358
- New Jersey - 11
- Chesapeake - 341
- Boilermaker - 1108
- Detroit - 503
- New York City - 694
- Philadelphia - 365
- Mid-West - 111
- Buckeye - 48
- Colorado - 233
- Silicon Valley - 368
- Waterloo - 1006
- Palmetto - 342
- West Michigan - 67
- Lone Star - 118
- Las Vegas - 60
- Southern CA - 812
- Greater Toronto - 1241
Regional Winners 2006
- BAE - 190
- Finger Lakes - 340
- NASA/VCU - 384
- Peachtree - 1002
- Sacramento - 245
- UTC Connecticut- 236
- Florida - 233
- Great Lakes - 66
- Arizona - 842
- Pittsburgh - 365
- St. Louis - 71
- Pacific Northwest - 492
- SBPLI Long Island- 514
- New Jersey - 25
- Chesapeake - 612
- Boilermaker - 45
- Detroit - 217
- New York City - 375
- Philadelphia - 357
- Mid-West - 111
- Buckeye - 48
- Colorado - 159
- Silicon Valley - 192
- Waterloo - 1114
- Palmetto - 1398
- West Michigan - 503
- Lone Star - 922
- Las Vegas - 79
- Southern CA - 812
- Greater Toronto - 522
- GM/Technion Israel - 1657
- Boston - 383
- Wisconsin - 1108
Regional Winners 2007
- BAE - 190
- NASA/VCU - 612
- New Jersey - 75
- Pacific Northwest - 1540
- St. Louis - 931
- Arizona - 842
- Bayou - 462
- Finger Lakes - 1511
- Florida - 79
- Great Lakes - 503
- Los Angeles - 399
- Pittsburgh - 63
- Wisconsin - 269
- Brazil Pilot - 1382
- Boilermaker - 234
- Chesapeake - 1727
- Detroit - 217
- Greater Kansas City - 876
- Midwest - 71
- Peachtree - 1311
- Silicon Valley - 604
- UTC Connecticut- 236
- New York City - 1155
- Boston - 126
- Buckeye - 66
- San Diego - 1266
- Waterloo - 1305
- GM/Technion Israel - 1657
- Colorado - 159
- Davis Sacramento - 1359
- Greater Toronto - 771
- Las Vegas - 597
- Lone Star - 922
- Palmetto - 1102
- Philadelphia - 365
- SBPLI Long Island - 1601
- West Michigan - 27
Regional Winners 2008
- BAE Systems Granite State - 126
- Bayou - 364
- Midwest - 71
- New Jersey - 1676
- Oregon - 1318
- St. Louis - 932
- Arizona - 842
- Finger Lakes - 340
- Greater Kansas City - 1429
- NASA/VCU - 1086
- San Diego - 812
- Boilermaker - 234
- Chesapeake - 768
- Connecticut - 236
- Detroit - 27
- Florida - 1523
- Peachtree - 34
- Pittsburgh - 291
- Silicon Valley - 604
- Wisconsin - 1714
- Brazil - 1860
- Buckeye - 612
- Lone Star - 1108
- Microsoft Seattle - 488
- Oklahoma City - 476
- UC Davis Sacramento - 692
- Waterloo - 1114
- West Michigan -226
- Israel - 1577
- Bayou - 364
- Boston - 839
- Colorado - 159
- Great Lakes - 68
- Greater Toronto - 1547
- Hawaii - 359
- Las Vegas - 987
- Minnesota - 1816
- Palmetto - 1398
- Philadelphia - 341
- SBPLI Long Island - 329
- New York City - 116
Regional Winners 2009
- BAE Systems Granite State - 1519
- Bayou - 364
- Boston - 88
- Buckeye - 1014
- Dallas - 1745
- Finger Lakes - 340
- Florida - 1557
- Greater Kansas City - 1710
- Los Angeles - 1138
- Microsoft Seattle - 360
- Midwest - 1625
- New Jersey - 1089
- New York - 2344
- Oregon - 1566
- Oklahoma City - 932
- San Diego - 1538
- Silicon Valley - 668
- Washington DC - 234
- Palmetto - 1676
- Pittsburgh - 337
- Peachtree - 1311
