🏆Impact Award
How to make an "Impact" - formerly the Chairman's Award
See a comprehensive reference document for the Impact Award - https://www.notion.so/Impact-Award-1b492db4396e4aab81a08d426ef5c219
What is the Impact Award (formerly the Chairman's Award)?
The Impact Award is a submittable award. It is one of 2 awards (Engineering Inspiration) that will automatically advance you to the next level of competition
The criterion for the FIRST Impact Award has special emphasis on recent accomplishments within the last 3 years
Must follow the Impact Award Definitions
The FIRST Impact Award enables FIRST to recognize teams for their exemplary efforts in spreading the FIRST message.
Eligibility Rules:
District teams may not win the Impact Award at Regional events
Team cannot have won the Impact Award at the same level of competition that season (i.e. you can only win at one district event/regional per season)
Cannot be a Hall of Fame Team
Must not be a first year team
General Award Format:
Submission Content
Executive Summaries (limited to 500 characters, including spaces and punctuation)
Essay (limited to 10,000 characters, including spaces and punctuation)
Lead mentors assign up to 2 student award submitters
Interview Process
7 minute interview, 5 minutes after for judge Q&A
utilize the Q&A time to the fullest extent - some judges will have too many questions and will run out of time, some judges will have NO questions.
keep the interview time (first 7 minutes) to an overview - only go somewhat in depth. Make sure you don't double cover details discussed in the essays - give the judges as much information as possible, and let the judges ask questions to gather as much info as possible.
Team Resources/Reference
624 CRyptonite Robotics 2023 Impact Video
1538 The Holy Cows 2013 Chairman's Magazine
1678 Citrus Circuits 2022 Chairmans Video
1902 Exploding Bacon (HOF) Impact Award
3284 Laser
Jump Start Robotics Chairman's Award: How to Tell your Story
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