2019 Results

Game Awards:

Winning Alliance, each team receives a $1000 grant:

Gluten Free #11115 from New Hampshire, Captain team 

The Giant Diencephalic BrainSTEM Robotics Team #8393 from Pennsylvania, 1st Pick  

Out of the Box #7244  from Pennsylvania, 2nd Pick

Finalist Alliance, each team receives a $500 grant:

Mechanical Paradox Cubed #7182 from Maryland, Captain team

FROGbots #4634 from Virginia, 1st Pick 

Saber Robotics #8886 from Texas, 2nd Pick

𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬:

𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐊.𝐈.𝐒.𝐒. 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, team receives a $500 grant

Generously sponsored by the Triangle Education Foundation, which is also sponsors scholarships for college bound FIRST students.   This award will go to the team that has embraced and demonstrated the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Straightforward and Simple) philosophy when designing their robot. This award celebrates the accessibility and reliability of an elegant mechanical design. This award can be given to a team for their overall design or for a specific component on their robot.

The winner is The Giant Diencephalic BrainSTEM Robotics Team #8393 from Pennsylvania

Here is what the Judges have to say about the winner of this Award: Anyone looking at this robot can observe the solid, reliable, clearly effective design at a glance. The teams the game challenge seems simple, just a matter of thinking it through.

𝐠𝐨𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐀 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, team receives a $500 grant. 

Graciously sponsored by goBilda®. goBILDA® is a modern build system designed for engineers, artists, students and makers. Itʼs metric, lightweight, and has an ever-growing library of parts. The award will go to the team that the judges deem to have the most creative and robust hardware solution to this yearʼs challenge. The team that receives this award really impressed the judges with their engineering process, design and performance on the field.

The winner is Mechanical Paradox^3 #7182 from Maryland

Here is what the Judges have to say about the winner of this Award: Mastering hardware demands a solid design process and skillful selection of just the rights parts to the job done efficiently and effectively. This teams creative and robust design also resulted in outstanding results on the field.

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, team receives a $500 grant

Generously sponsored for the third year by WorTech Corporation. WorTech focuses on information technology engineering services. This award recognizes the team that utilizes sensors and software to enhance automated and driver assisted control. Independent of team competition ranking, this award recognizes the system architecture that combines sensors and software to enable a robot and driver to positively respond to planned and unplanned events during game play. 

The winner is Gluten Free #11115 from New Hampshire

Here is what the Judges have to say about the winner of this Award: Algorithms built in software are the heart and soul of a championship robot. This team demonstrated the effective use of sensors and cross-cutting algorithms during both autonomous and tele-op game play. The result was a robot that was high scoring, reliable and almost fully autonomous during tele-op.

𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬' 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, team receives a $500 grant

This is an optional award that may be given to a team that the MTI judges would like to recognize for achievements not addressed in the awards listed above. 

The winner is Team Shatterdome #8338 from South Korea

Here is what the Judges have to say about the winner of this Award: This team demonstrated a constant drive to improve themselves and the other teams in their country. They effectively used their engagement with the FTC community abroad to not only strengthen themselves but the FTC program as well as in their country.