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Regional Awards


Regional Charman's Award

 

FIRST’s most prestigious award, it honors the team judged to have created the best partnership effort among team participants, and to have best exemplified the true meaning of FIRST. The award helps keep the central focus of the FIRST Robotics Competition on the goal of inspiring greater levels of respect and honor for science and technology.


Engineering Inspiration Award

 

Celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers within a team’s school and community. This is the second-highest award a team can garner.


Woodie Flowers Finalist Award

 

Presented by Small Parts, Inc. to an outstanding engineer or teacher participating in the competition who best demonstrates teaching excellence in teaching science, math, and creative design.


Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award

 

Recognizes one individual who has actively supported FIRST programs through leadership and personal commitment over an extended period of time, resulting in a sustained impact on the FIRST Regional event.


Regional Champion

 

Celebrates the alliance that wins the Regional competition.


Regional Finalist

 

Celebrates the alliance that makes it to the final match of the Regional competition.


DaimlerChrysler Team Spirit Award

 

Celebrates extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit through exceptional partnership and teamwork.


Delphi “Driving Tomorrow’s Technology” Award

 

Celebrates an elegant and advantageous machine feature.


General Motors Industrial Design Award

 

Celebrates form and function in an efficiently designed machine that effectively achieves the game challenge.


Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship Award

 

Celebrates outstanding sportsmanship and gracious professionalism in the heat of competition, both on and off the playing field.


Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award

 

Celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit by recognizing a team that, since its inception, has developed the framework for a comprehensive business plan to scope, manage, and achieve team objectives.


Motorola Quality Award

 

Celebrates machine robustness in concept and fabrication.


Innovation in Control Award

 

Celebrates an innovative control system or application of control components to provide unique machine functions.


XEROX Creativity Award

 

Celebrates creativity in design, use of a component, or strategy of play.


Highest Rookie Seed Award

 

Celebrates the highest-seeded rookie team at the conclusion of the qualifying rounds.


Imagery Award

 

Celebrates attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration of machine and team appearance.


Industrial Safety Award

 

Celebrates the team that progresses beyond safety fundamentals by using innovative ways to eliminate or protect against hazards.


Rookie All-Star Award

 

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.


Rookie Inspiration Award

 

Celebrates a rookie team for outstanding effort as a FIRST team in community outreach and recruiting students to engineering.


Website Award

 

Recognizes excellence in student-designed, built, and managed FIRST team websites.


Judges’ Awards

 

During the course of the competition, the judging panel may decide a team’s unique efforts, performance, or dynamics merit recognition.