Stop Build Day Survey Clarification and Return of an Award
September 7, 2016
Written by Frank Merrick
About one year ago, in this blog, we revealed the results of an extensive survey we did of the community regarding their thoughts on Stop Build Day. No survey is perfect, but if this one showed anything, it showed that there is no strong consensus one way or the other on this topic which is so fundamental to our culture and how we operate.
We have seen and considered several schemes for modifying the Stop Build Day concept. These schemes were even a topic of conversation with several Woodie Flowers Award winners at their recent annual gathering. They, too, had no consensus on this topic. It’s not clear that any of these options would be significantly better for the great majority of our community than the system we currently have. Given where we are right now in the calendar, and that even if we knew of an option we were comfortable with it would need to be run by folks outside FIRST HQ, the 2018 season will retain our traditional Stop Build Day.
We recognize the current system has drawbacks. We are still open to considering options and changing things in the future. This decision is final for 2018, but not for 2019 and beyond.
Frank