Awards

Descriptions by FIRST, WRRF, and FIRST Team 604.

2012-2013 Season

2013 Silicon Valley 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.

Woodie Flowers Finalist Award -- Mr. Best: The Woodie Flowers Finalist 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 Finalist 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.

2013 Sacramento Regional

Quality Award Sponsored by Motorola: This award celebrates machine robustness in concept and fabrication.

2012 CalGames Offseason Competition

Entrepreneurship Award: Fielding a successful and sustainable robotics team is a multi-faceted endeavor, requiring engineering, management, and business skills. While the team displays its engineering skill on the game field, other skills are essential to getting there. The Entrepreneurship Award recognizes a team that demonstrates a business organization and execution that can help its team succeed on the field. Teams submit a demonstration (e.g., essay, business plan, examples, etc.) to the judge; teams will be interviewed for this award.

Runner-up AMD CAD Award: Teams will submit examples and descriptions of their use of CAD in robot design or other aspects of the robotics competition prior to the competition. Judges will review these examples, discuss them with the students on a team, and review the implementation of the design. This award recognizes exceptional use and connections from CAD design to implementation, showing where CAD made a difference.

2011-2012 Season

2012 Silicon Valley Regional

Woodie Flowers Finalist Award -- Mr. Mori: The Woodie Flowers Finalist 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 Finalist 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.

Dean's List Finalist -- Kunal M.: 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.

2012 Sacramento 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.

2011 CalGames Offseason Competition

2010-2011 Season

2011 Silicon Valley Regional

Regional Finalists Award: This award celebrates the team or alliance that makes it to the final match of the competition.

2011 Sacramento 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.

Woodie Flowers Finalist Award -- Mrs. Best: The Woodie Flowers Finalist 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 Finalist 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.

Runner-up Abbott Inventor Hall of Fame Award: The Abbott Inventor Hall of Fame Award Program (IHF) challenges students to design and create an original invention to be submitted to FIRST for review. The award is given based on the invention's effectiveness, uniqueness, simplicity, practicality, presentation, and the complexity of the problem to be solved by the invention. It was designed to provide education to FIRST participants about Inventions, Intellectual Property and how the Intellectual Property process works. 2011 was also the pilot year for this award at the Sacramento and Silicon Valley regionals.

2010 CalGames Offseason Competition

Mentor Award -- Mrs. Arrington: Teams will submit nominations for outstanding mentors, sharing how and why a team mentor or coach, influenced them. Judges may interview teams about their essay. Judges will use the essays and interviews to select an outstanding mentor that exemplifies WRRF’s objectives to recognize.

Runner-up AMD CAD Award: Teams will submit examples and descriptions of their use of CAD in robot design or other aspects of the robotics competition. Judges will review these examples, discuss them with the students on a team, and review the implementation of the design. This award recognizes exceptional use and connections from CAD design to implementation, showing where CAD made a difference.

2009-2010 Season

2010 Sacramento Regional

Regional Champion (Qualifies our team for the Championship Event): This award celebrates the team or alliance that wins the competition.

Coopertition^TM Award: The Coopertition^TM 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 Finalist Award -- Mrs. Arrington: The Woodie Flowers Finalist 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 Finalist 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

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

2006-2007 Season

2007 Silicon Valley Regional

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.