The Rookie Inspiration Award commemorates a rookie team's success for engineering, and engineers within the school or community.

From FIRST themselves, here are the guidelines: 

• Effectiveness and inventiveness of the team’s efforts to recruit students to engineering.

• Extent and effectiveness of the team’s community outreach efforts.

• A commitment to science and technology education among the team.

• Ability to communicate understanding of the FIRST mission at the competition and away from it.

The Rookie All-Star Award celebrates the rookie team's for showing a strong partnership effort and implementing the mission of FIRST.

From FIRST themselves, here are the guidelines:

• This team seems like a “FIRST Impact Award team in the making.” (Community activities, leadership, vision, spirit, etc.)

• The team is a true partnership between school or organization and sponsors.

• The team understands what FIRST is really trying to accomplish – realizes that technical stuff is fun, challenging, and offers a future.

• This team has built a robot appropriate to the game’s challenges.

The FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award recognizes the leadership and dedication of secondary school students.

From FIRST themselves, here are the guidelines:

•  The students selected for each Regional and District Region. Each Regional is allotted 2 Dean's List Award Finalists, and the number of Finalists per District varies. 

Celebrates success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s school. organization, and community.

From FIRST themselves, here are the guidelines:

• Extent and inventiveness of the team’s efforts to recruit students to engineering with particular emphasis on the most recent year’s efforts. Measurable success of those efforts.

• Extent and effectiveness of the team’s community outreach efforts with particular emphasis on the most recent year’s efforts. Measurable success of those efforts.

• A commitment to science and technology education among the team, school, and community.

• Achievement of the FIRST mission and ability to communicate that at the competition and away from it.

• Efforts are ongoing, not strictly concentrated on the build and competition season.

Celebrates a team that properly embodies the FIRST Core Values.

From FIRST themselves, here are the guidelines:

• The team exemplifies the FIRST Core Values in relationships with other teams and by their demonstrated Gracious Professionalism

• The team consistently demonstrates Gracious Professionalism and a positive attitude both on and off the field.

• If the team worked with another FIRST Robotics Competition team pre-season – they can describe the following:

  • How the collaboration was conducted during the off-season and during the build season

  • How the teams divided up tasks fairly and equitably

  • How the process of communication flowed from one team to the other

  • How working together as a group was beneficial over working independently

  • The financial impacts of working together vs working independently 

Wildcards were sometimes generated at a Regional Event for more teams to attend the FIRST Championship, sadly this has been replaced with the points system.

Our team earned this award in 2022 at the Las Vegas Regional for being the Winning Alliance's 2nd Pick.

Highest Rookie Seed is designated to the Rookie Team that places the highest in ranks during Qualification Matches at an event. 

Regional Winners are composed of the Winning Alliance at an event.