Awards
Descriptions by FIRST, WRRF, and Team 604.
2009-2010 Season
2009 CalGames Offseason Competition
Lunacy Champion: Celebrates the team or alliance that wins the competition.
BAE Systems Design Award: Winner of this award will demonstrate a unique or exceptional design element to the judges. This element could be in the software or hardware design of the robot.
BLADE Entrepreneurship Award: This award recognizes that it takes money to make robots and to compete in FRC year after year. This award recognizes a team that has developed a process to find, foster, and grow funding resources, allowing their team to be successful. This award recognizes more than simple fund raising; it recognizes the team spirit and enthusiasm needed to develop a strong set of sponsor-team relationships. A business plan or display would be helpful.
2008-2009 Season
Sacramento Regional
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award: Celebrates an innovative control system or application of control components to provide unique machine functions.
Silicon Valley Regional
Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award: Celebrates an elegant and advantageous machine feature.
Website Award: Recognizes excellence in student-designed, built, and managed FIRST team websites.
UL Industrial Safety Award: Celebrates the team that progresses beyond safety fundamentals by using innovative ways to eliminate or protect against hazards.
2008 CalGames Offseason Competition
Overdrive Champion: Celebrates the team or alliance that wins the competition.
Other
Commendation from San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and Councilmember Nancy Pyle for the Leland Robotics Team's outstanding achievements in the field of robotics. (See more information here)
2007-2008 Season
Silicon Valley Regional
Regional Chairman's Award: FIRST’s most prestigious award, it honors the team judged to have created the best partnership effort among team participants, and to have best exemplified the true meaning of FIRST. The award helps keep the central focus of the FIRST Robotics Competition on the goal of inspiring greater levels of respect and honor for science and technology.
2006-2007 Season
Silicon Valley Regional
Regional Chairman's Award: FIRST’s most prestigious award, it honors the team judged to have created the best partnership effort among team participants, and to have best exemplified the true meaning of FIRST. The award helps keep the central focus of the FIRST Robotics Competition on the goal of inspiring greater levels of respect and honor for science and technology.
2006 CalGames Offseason Competition
Safety Award: Celebrates the team that progresses beyond safety fundamentals by using innovative ways to eliminate or protect against hazards.
2005-2006 Season
Pacific Northwest Regional
Judge’s Award Day 2: During the course of the competition, the judging panel may decide a team’s unique efforts, performance, or dynamics merit recognition.
UL Industrial Safety Award: Celebrates the team that progresses beyond safety fundamentals by using innovative ways to eliminate or protect against hazards.
Silicon Valley Regional
General Motors Industrial Design Award: Celebrates form and function in an efficiently designed machine that effectively achieves the game challenge.
UL Industrial Safety Award: Celebrates the team that progresses beyond safety fundamentals by using innovative ways to eliminate or protect against hazards.
2004-2005 Season
Pacific Northwest Regional
Regional Champion: Celebrates the team or alliance that wins the Regional competition.
Safety Award: Celebrates the team that progresses beyond safety fundamentals by using innovative ways to eliminate or protect against hazards.
