2024 Awards
8479 RoboCavs Gold won the Control Award
**Control Award: 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.
10001 RoboCavs Silver won the Connect Award
**Connect Award: A true FIRST team is more than a sum of its parts and recognizes that engaging in 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.
**Control Award: 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.
10001 RoboCavs Silver won the Connect Award
**Connect Award: A true FIRST team is more than a sum of its parts and recognizes that engaging in 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.
2023 Awards
8479 RoboCavs Gold was the winning alliance captain, and won the Think Award.
**Think Award: This judged 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 Teams' engineering content must focus on the design and build stage of the Teams's Robot.
They also came in second for Control Award and Motivate Award.
10001 RoboCavs Silver was the finalist alliance, won the Motivate Award, and came in third for Control Award.
**Motivate Award: This Team embraces the culture of the 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.
**Think Award: This judged 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 Teams' engineering content must focus on the design and build stage of the Teams's Robot.
They also came in second for Control Award and Motivate Award.
10001 RoboCavs Silver was the finalist alliance, won the Motivate Award, and came in third for Control Award.
**Motivate Award: This Team embraces the culture of the 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.
2022 Awards
8479 RoboCavs Gold came in second for the Innovate Award.
**Innovate Award: The Innovate Award celebrates a Team that thinks imaginatively and has the ingenuity, creativity, and inventiveness to make their designs come to life. This judged award is given to the Team that has the most innovative and creative Robot design solutions to any specific components in the FIRST Tech Challenge game. Elements of this award include elegant design, robustness, and 'out of the box' thinking related to design.
10001 RoboCavs Silver won the Design Award.
**Design Award: This judged award recognizes design elements of the Robot that are both functional and aesthetic. The Design Award is presented to Teams that incorporate industrial design elements into their solution, These design elements could simplify the Robot's appearance by giving it a clean look, be decorative in nature, or otherwise express the creativity of the Team. The Robot should be durable, efficiently designed, and effectively address the game challenge.
**Innovate Award: The Innovate Award celebrates a Team that thinks imaginatively and has the ingenuity, creativity, and inventiveness to make their designs come to life. This judged award is given to the Team that has the most innovative and creative Robot design solutions to any specific components in the FIRST Tech Challenge game. Elements of this award include elegant design, robustness, and 'out of the box' thinking related to design.
10001 RoboCavs Silver won the Design Award.
**Design Award: This judged award recognizes design elements of the Robot that are both functional and aesthetic. The Design Award is presented to Teams that incorporate industrial design elements into their solution, These design elements could simplify the Robot's appearance by giving it a clean look, be decorative in nature, or otherwise express the creativity of the Team. The Robot should be durable, efficiently designed, and effectively address the game challenge.
2021 Awards
8479 RoboCavs Gold won the Collins Aerospace Innovate Award and came in second for the Inspire Award.
**Inspire Award: This judged award is given to the Team that best embodies the 'challenge' of the FIRST Tech Challenge program. The Team the 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, active with Gracious Professionalism both on and off the Playing Field. This Team shares their experiences, enthusiasm and knowledge with other teams, sponsors, their community, and the judges. Working as a unit, this Team will have shown success in performing the task of designing and building a Robot.
10001 RoboCavs Silver came in third for Think Award and Design Award.
**Inspire Award: This judged award is given to the Team that best embodies the 'challenge' of the FIRST Tech Challenge program. The Team the 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, active with Gracious Professionalism both on and off the Playing Field. This Team shares their experiences, enthusiasm and knowledge with other teams, sponsors, their community, and the judges. Working as a unit, this Team will have shown success in performing the task of designing and building a Robot.
10001 RoboCavs Silver came in third for Think Award and Design Award.