What Informs the Judges' Deliberations?

Team Submitted Materials

• Engineering Portfolio

• SIQ Documentation

Team Interviews

Each team competing for Judged Awards will be given a 5 minute time slot to present to a judging panel followed by 10 minutes of questions and answers with the judges. 

Robot Performance Observation

The Maryland Tech Invitational judges include robot game performance in their award deliberations. Individual team data is collected by MTI Match Observers and then shared with the judges. 

Adherence to the FIRST principles of Gracious Professionalism®

The MTI embraces and follows FIRST's code of Gracious Professionalism at all times. Gracious Professionalism is a way of doing things that encourages high-quality work, emphasizes the value of others, and respects individuals and the community.  With Gracious Professionalism, fierce competition and mutual gain are not separate notions. Gracious professionals learn and compete like crazy but treat one another with respect and kindness in the process. They avoid treating anyone like losers.  There is no chest thumping tough talk. Knowledge, competition, and empathy are comfortably blended.

Persons who do not comply with the principals of Gracious Professionalism may be removed from consideration for Judged Awards at the Maryland Tech Invitational.  Particularly egregious violations can result in yellow/red cards and/or removal from the event.  

Rubrics

Rubrics are used as an aid for determining the top teams for the judged awards.   They are tools to organize and ease communication amongst the award judges.  The winners are not selected strictly by their rubric scores.  These rubrics are filled out by the Judge Panels and will be sent to your team after the MTI.