🏆Impact Award

How to make an "Impact" - formerly the Chairman's Award

What is the Impact Award (formerly the Chairman's Award)?

• The FIRST Impact Award enables FIRST to recognize teams for their exemplary efforts in spreading the FIRST message.

• 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

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.

email [e-mail] to request the speaker's notes for the presentation

Ready to take the Quiz?

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

  • Impact Documentation
  • Impact Tips
• Jump Start Robotics Chairman's Award: How to Tell your Story
• Impact Award Documentation Database