Awards
Descriptions by FIRST, WRRF, and Team 604.
2009-2010 Season
2010 Sacramento Regional
Regional Chairman's Award (Qualifies our team for the Championship Event): FIRST’s most prestigious award, it honors the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the purpose and goals 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.
Regional Champion (Qualifies our team for the Championship Event): This award celebrates the team or alliance that wins the competition.
CoopertitionTM Award: The CoopertitionTM Award celebrates the team that best demonstrates the ability to help their opponents compete. In the inaugural year of the Coopertition Award, the award will be granted to the team that earns the most Coopertition Bonus points during the competition.
Woodie Flowers Award -- Mrs. Arrington: The Woodie Flowers Award celebrates effective communication in the art and science of engineering and design. Dr. William Murphy founded this prestigious award in 1996 to recognize mentors who lead, inspire, and empower using excellent communication skills. The Woodie Flowers Award is presented to an outstanding engineer or teacher participating in the robotics competition who best demonstrates excellence in teaching science, math, and creative design.
2010 Silicon Valley Regional
Engineering Inspiration Award (Qualifies our team for the Championship Event): Celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s school and community.
Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award -- John & Maggie Best
Dean's List Finalist -- Eugene F.: This award celebrates outstanding student leaders whose passion for and effectiveness at attaining, FIRST ideals is exemplary. The Kamen family hopes this honor not only recognizes these student leaders' tremendous recent accomplishments, but also inspires them to continue their great work for FIRST as alumni. FIRST Dean’s List Finalists will compete at the championship for the FIRST Dean’s List.
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
2009 Sacramento Regional
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award: Celebrates an innovative control system or application of control components to provide unique machine functions.
2009 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
2008 Silicon Valley Regional
Regional Chairman's Award (Qualifies our team for the Championship Event): 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
2007 Silicon Valley Regional
Regional Chairman's Award (Qualifies our team for the Championship Event): 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
2006 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.
2006 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
2005 Pacific Northwest Regional
Regional Champion (Qualifies our team for the Championship Event): 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.
