Pennsylvania FIRST Vex Challenge Championship

This judged award is awarded to the team whose Engineering Notebook best reflects the “journey” the team took as they experienced the engineering design process during the build season. Teams will need to keep Engineering Notebooks describing the steps, brainstorms, designs, re-designs, successes, and “those interesting moments” when things were not going as planned.

This judged award is given to the team who has been able to reach beyond their team and connect with engineers, their school, or their community.

The FIRST Vex Challenge 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. Inspired by longtime FIRST corporate sponsor Innovation First, Inc., this judged award is given to the team that has the most innovative and creative robot design solution to any and/or all specific field elements or components in this year's FIRST Vex Challenge.

During the course of the competition, the judging panel may encounter a team whose unique efforts, performance, or dynamics merit recognition. This judged award is given to the team that defies any other award category.

This formally judged award is given to the team that performs well in all categories, that impresses all other teams and who they would always want as an alliance partner and finally, the team the judges’ view that best exemplifies all components of the FIRST Vex Challenge philosophy. This team should serve as an inspiration to other teams. This team excels at the game challenge, acts with gracious professionalism and also understands how to communicate their experiences and knowledge to other teams, and the judges.