Chairman’s Corner
With the start of the 2010 season, TJ’s Chairman’s group has gotten fully underway. In order to present our team’s efforts to the judges, we must devise an essay that will showcase our efforts, write six brief paragraphs in response to judges’ questions, film a three-minute video to give judges a visual representation of our efforts, and come up with an incredible presentation to really impress the Chairman’s judges at the regional competition. Of course, all of these requirements meant to show off our team must reflect the great efforts we have achieved and plan to achieve. For our essay this year, we plan to create a modified version of last year’s, which was a timeline of a year with TJ2 written in rhyme. This may seem whimsical, but it lodged facts about our team in the judges’ memories so well that they were able to recite lines back to us. Our six short-answer responses to the judges’ questions are nearly completed, and reflect a great group effort from everyone at the Chairman’s group, who split the questions among themselves and peer edited to ensure each response was perfect. We will soon begin work on our three-minute video, which will show the impact TJ has had on our school in silent movie format. Our presentation and essay will focus primarily on the great things we have accomplished in the past two or three years. The conference we hosted last year for those interested in starting robotics programs at their schools was a great success and really impressed the judges in Boston. Additionally, thanks to Jay Dev, we were able to start a team in India. This year, we hope to increase involvement in our local community by visiting local elementary and middle schools to attract future members to our team, and by creating a fan base within our school. Also, we plan to clean up trash with a vengeance once the warm weather permits.