📚Awards Overview & Resources
Overview
Steps to win awards
Read over ALL award overviews before competitions - make sure students (especially those in the pit space) know what each award is for
Decide which awards you want to go for - rank all, or choose the top _ awards you want to go for (decide based on your teams strengths)
Craft basic answers to questions based on above decisions, make sure all students (especially those in the pit space) know how to respond to questions
Remember - most judges WONT KNOW FRC; explain everything at a basic level and go more into depth if they ask
Remember pt 2 - judges are EVERYWHERE; make sure to practice Gracious Professionalism at all times during the event
Why do awards?
Awards are a great way to -
bring awareness and generate interest in STEM in your community and school
engage with potential sponsors & supporters
Recruit and build a pipeline of students
Expand your network
Awards are also a fantastic way to stay active during the off-season.
Submission Based Awards
Make sure you are clear on definitions (found here)
Want to learn more? View the Impact Award page.
Machine, Creativity, & Innovation Awards
Celebrates the team that has demonstrated consistent, reliable, high-performance robot operation during autonomously managed actions
Celebrates creativity in design, use of component, or strategy of play
Celebrates an elegant and advantageous machine feature
Celebrates form and function in an efficiently designed machine that effectively addresses the game challenge
Celebrates an innovative control system or application of control components—electrical, mechanical or software—to provide unique machine functions
Celebrates machine robustness in concept and fabrication
Team Attribute Awards
Celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s school and community
Celebrates the team that exemplifies the core values of FIRST in their relationships with other teams and by their demonstrated Gracious Professionalism®
celebrates attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration of machine and team appearance
Based on a team’s unique efforts, performance, or dynamics merit recognition (i.e. whichever team catches the judges attention but has not won another award)
Celebrates extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit through exceptional partnership and teamwork furthering the objectives of FIRST
Celebrates and recognizes a team which has developed a sustainable program in order to define, manage, and achieve the team’s ongoing objectives
Rookie Awards (rookie eligibility found here)
Celebrates the rookie team exemplifying a young but strong partnership effort, as well as implementing the mission of FIRST to inspire students to learn more about science and technology
Celebrates a rookie team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school, as well as in their community
Resources
Team Trainings, Reference & Resources
624 CRyptonite Robotics
1678 Citrus Circuits
1902 Exploding Bacon (HOF)
2056 OP Robotics Technical Binder
3847 Spectrum
Jump Start Robotics CAD for Judging
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