Lehigh Valley Regional Qualifying Tournament

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

The Outstanding Rookie Award goes to team 7060 RobotiX.

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:

In demonstrating perseverance and heart by overcoming circumstances beyond their control, this team stuck with it and did not lose their motivation. The Come From Behind Award is presented to team 8306, the Danvillians.

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.

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This 2nd year team has worked closely with FLL teams in their area. Their gracious professionalism and team spirit has singled them out in today's competition. These girls have SPARKED lots of community interest in FIRST.

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.

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This team has made connections within their school and community. They were advocates at their high school for the FTC program. Because of their hard work, they have created a pathway at their school for students to become a part of the FTC program. For this team, their ship has come in ...

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:

This team's innovative design was unique among all competitors. They demonstrated that they spent excess time coming up with an exceptional product, in fact they probably spent the full 60 minutes instead of 45 every hour.

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 utililized a CAD program and learned effective engineering through testing and evaluation of their robot. The team also deocumented each design innovation into their Engineering notebook and realized if it isn't broken, don't fix it. From their learnings, they shared their information on the team's website for all other FTC teams to use.

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 demonstrates respect and gracious professionalism. Their Engineering notebook demonstrates the team's clear understanding of the engineering design process.

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:

On and off the field, this team inspires by having created a community where knowledge is shared and friendships are made. Even during the Block Party, they were happy to take some time to help out other competitors. They have been instrumental in advancing our sport by helping nearly a dozen FLL teams get off the ground. Although this team may be wearing silver, today they won GOLD.