The Rookie Inspiration Award celebrates 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 representing a strong partnership effort, and implementing the mission of FIRST to inspire students to learn more about science & technology.

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 outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s school or 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.

Wildcards are generated at a Regional Event when a team at a Regional has previously earned a FIRST Championship spot for the season and earns either the FIRST Impact Award, Engineering Inspiration Award, the Winning Alliance's Captain, or the Winning Alliance's 1st Pick at the event. Wildcards are given in a specific order at each event found here.

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.