August 5, 2011

Awards

Champion’s Award

This award recognizes a team that embodies the FLL experience, by fully embracing our Core Values while achieving excellence and innovation in both the Robot Game and Project.

Robot Awards:

Mechanical Design – This award recognizes a team that designs and develops a mechanically sound robot that is durable, efficient and highly capable of performing challenge missions.

Programming – This award recognizes a team that utilizes outstanding programming principles, including clear, concise and reusable code that allows their robot to perform challenge missions autonomously and consistently.

Innovation & Strategy – This award recognizes a team that uses solid engineering practices and a well-­‐developed strategy to design and build an innovative, high performing robot.

Robot Performance – This award recognizes a team that scores the most points during the Robot Game. Teams have a chance to compete in at least three 2.5 minute matches and their highest score counts.

Project Awards:

Research – This award recognizes a team that utilizes diverse resources to formulate an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the problem they have identified.

Innovative Solution – This award recognizes a team’s solution that is exceptionally well-considered and creative, with good potential to solve the problem researched.

Presentation – This award recognizes a team that effectively communicates the problem they have identified and their proposed solution to both the judges and other potential supporters.

Core Values Awards:

Inspiration – This award celebrates a team that is empowered by their FLL experience and displays extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit.

Teamwork – This award recognizes a team that is able to accomplish more together than they could as individuals through shared goals, strong communication, effective problem solving and excellent time management.

Gracious Professionalism – This award recognizes a team whose members show each other and other teams respect at all times. They recognize that both friendly competition and mutual gain are possible, on and off the playing field.

Judge’s Awards:

Judges’ Award 1 – These awards are given by the judges to teams they have determined excel in areas not included in the other awards.

Judges’ Award 2 – These awards are given by the judges to teams they have determined excel in areas not included in the other awards.

Other Awards:

1st Place Award

2nd Place Award