This Team embraces the culture of FIRST and clearly shows what it means to be a team. This judged award celebrates the Team that represents the essence of the FIRST Tech Challenge competition through Gracious Professionalism and general enthusiasm for the overall philosophy of FIRST and what it means to be a FIRST Tech Challenge Team. This is a Team who makes a collective effort to make FIRST known throughout their school and community, and sparks others to embrace the culture of FIRST.

 

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The Control Award celebrates a Team that uses sensors and software to increase the Robot's functionality in the field. This award is given to the Team that demonstrates innovative thinking to solve game challenges such as autonomous operation, improving mechanical systems with intelligent control, or using sensors to achieve better results. The control component should work consistently in the field.

 

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This team found a new and different way for their ring intake. They steadily turned their innovation into a reality. Archimedes himself would be proud of their twin screw design.

Winner: Team 6378 JayBots

2nd Place: Team 118 Steel Hornets

The Connect Award is given to the Team that most connects with their local science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) community. A true FIRST team is more than a sum of its parts and recognizes that engaging their local STEM community plays an essential part in their success. The recipient of this award is recognized for helping the community understand FIRST, the FIRST Tech Challenge, and the Team itself. The Team that wins the Connect Award actively seeks and recruits engineers and explores the opportunities available in the world of engineering, science and technology. This Team has a clear Team plan and has identified steps to achieve their goals.

Here is what the judges had to say:This team connected to FTC and FLL teams and to technical communities both in their region and internationally. Their outreach consisted of recorded YouTube videos and they also served as on-demand support. This team didn't rely on Artificial Intelligence but cultivated real connections within the technical community.

The Think Award is given to the Team that best reflects the journey the Team took as they experienced the engineering design process during the build season. The engineering content within the portfolio is the key reference for Judges to help identify the most deserving Team. The Team's engineering content must focus on the design and build stage of the Team's Robot.

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This team's INCREDIBLE journey was clear all the way through their comprehensively illustrated portfolio. Their sustainable outreach, MECHANICAL iteration, and JAVA coding were all engaging to read. Their step-by-step design process was HEROICALLY documented. 

Winner: Team 16330 Javengers

2nd Place: Team 11208 Kardia Robotics

The Inspire Award is given to the team that best embodies the "challenge" of the FIRST Tech Challenge program. The Team that receives this award is a strong ambassador for FIRST programs and a role model FIRST Team. This Team is a top contender for many other judged awards and is a gracious competitor. The Inspire Award winner is an inspiration to other Teams, acting with Gracious Professionalism® both on and off the playing field. This Team shares their experiences, enthusiasm and knowledge with other team, sponsors, their community, and the Judges. Working as a unit, this Team will have showed success in performing the task of designing and building a Robot.

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Many of this well-rounded team's members came up from FLL and their number one goal for this season was to advance to States. This team put forth an exemplary effort to promote STEM to potential future FTC students by providing webinars and STEM activities that could be done from home. Their NEON green rollers successful implented their high-TECH trajectory analysis.

Winner: Team 12564 Technion

2nd Place: Team 16330 Javengers