Philadelphia Meets – Final Meet

Here is what the judges had to say about the winner:

Outstanding performance for a rookie team.

The Judges' Award is given at the discretion of the judges to a team they have encountered whose unique efforts, performance or dynamics merit recognition, yet the team does not fit into any of the existing award categories.

Here is what the judges had to say about the winner:

The judges award goes to a team that has an outstanding group dynamic. Their bond and leadership on and off the field can be felt by many. We can see them railing towards continuous success.

The Motivate Award celebrates the Team that exemplifies the essence of the FIRST Tech Challenge Competition through Team spirit and enthusiasm. This Team shows their spirit through costumes and fun outfits, a Team cheer or outstanding spirit, or through their collective efforts to make FIRST known throughout their school or community.

Here is what the judges had to say about the winner:

This award goes to a team that demonstrates extreme enthusiasm and unity. Their energetic nature radiates throughout their school. And they will have a mascot that will hound the competition in the near future!

The Connect Award is presented to the Team that the Judges feel most connected with their local community and the engineering community. The best Team is more than the sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to their success. The recipient of this Award is recognized for helping the community understand FIRST, the FIRST Tech Challenge, and the Team itself. In addition, the Team that wins this Award is aggressively seeking engineers and exploring the opportunities available in the world of engineering, science, and technology.

Here is what the judges had to say about the winner:

This team demonstrated many new technical ideas. They also blew us away with their scorching competition they swooped down and took this prize.

The Rockwell Collins Innovate Award celebrates a Team that not only thinks outside the box, but also has the ingenuity and inventiveness to make their designs come to life. This Award is given to the Team that the Judges feel has the most Innovative and Creative Robot design solution to the FIRST Tech Challenge to any or all specific Field Elements or components. Elements of this Award include elegant design, robustness, and 'out of the box' thinking with regard to design. This Award may address the design of the whole Robot or some sub-assembly component attached to the Robot. The creative component needs to work consistently, but a Robot does not have to work all of the time during Matches to be considered for this Award. The Team's Engineering Notebook showed the design of the component(s) and the Team's Robot, and described succinctly how the Team arrived at that solution.

Here is what the judges had to say about the winner:

Innovation means thinking outside of the box but this team lifted itself out of the box. Rising to the occasion this team clad in gold rides forward. We hope to see them continue to joust their way to victory.

The intent of the PTC Design Award is to expand the challenge, inspiring Teams to incorporate industrial design into their Robots. These elements can be shown in the simplicity of the design as it applies to the tasks, the look and feel of the Robot, and how the design allows us to think of Robots in new ways. The Design aspect must serve a function, but they should also differentiate the Robot in a unique fashion, not an easy task with a limited set of parts and Game challenge.

Here is what the judges had to say about the winner:

This team used CAD and an Electronic Notebook to effectively document their design. This young team really impressed the judges with their maturity. They unhorsed their competition with their Design Prowess.

The Think Award is given to the Team that the Judges feel best understood the role of the Engineering Notebook in the design process. The Engineering Notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving Team. This Team's Engineering Notebook focused on the design and build stages of the Team's Robot.

Here is what the judges had to say about the winner:

This team developed an outstanding summary of the robot that they constructed. They exhibited a clear design process that raised the standard in the northeast. This team is so creative they will have others seeing red.The THINK Award goes to Team 6552 Northeast High Robotics.

he Inspire Award is given to the Team that the Judges felt truly embodied the 'challenge' of the FTC program. This Team serves as an inspiration to what this program and the young minds involved, can accomplish. The Team that receives this Award has performed well in all Judging categories and was chosen by the Judges as a model FIRST Tech Challenge Team. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the Pit area, the Team's Engineering Notebook, and performance on the Playing Field in determining the winner.

Here is what the judges had to say about the winner:

This team made us marvel. They had a great notebook, robot design, team spirit and performance on the field. They came in and saved the day.