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I couldn't attend Nationals this year so I've been trying to find out results on the web. I've gone to the FIRST site, NASA's site, and now the chiefdelphi forums and can only find who won the competition. Not to take anything away from the newly crowned champions, but I'm disappointed that no one's asking or telling about the rest of the award winners.
This focus on the competition rankings seems to me not quite in keeping with the FIRST ideals. And I'm not picking on this Forum. FIRST provides up to the minute competition results, but if previous year's are any indication it will take them a month to post the award winners. NASA let's you see almost any match you want, but they weren't even web-casting the awards (that I could find).
Whatever happened to the idea that the Chairman's Award is truly the top honor? What about the teams that never made it to the eliminations but had such great robot features or spirit or sportsmanship or dramatic play that they were singled out as the best of the best during the awards ceremony. What about the Woodie Flower's Award winner? Don't these people and teams deserve the lime-light?
So I'm asking the great FIRST collective: what people / teams won what awards at Nationals? Please join me in extending a heart-felt congratulations to them all!
Well, my team, #357 won the "Delphi's Technology of Tomorrow Award" or something around that... I forget who won the animation award, but it was really good.
It's "Delphi's Driving Tomorrow's Technology Award"
230 Won it in Long Island. ;-)
Thx for the correction, i was tired when they announced it..
Kris Verdeyen
29-04-2002, 10:55
118 won the Sportsmanship award
365 won the Spirit Award
114 won the Visualization Award
60 (a Ford sponsored team) won the GM industrial design award
233 won an award (Leadership in Controls, I think)
That's about all I can remember.
My team #365 (MOE) won the Team Spirit Award. It really pumped us up and were quite proud of it. Gratz to all the award winners out there :)
Mark Pierce
29-04-2002, 11:00
NASA TV (Webcast) most of the Award Ceremony, but I had other committments that kept me from seeing most of it. I did see the RoboDAWGS (Team 288) pick up the Entrepreneurship Award.
Nate Smith
29-04-2002, 11:20
Most of the FIRST staff is still down in Florida or on their way back, as none of their flights left until this morning(Monday). The awards page most likely needs to be hand-generated, and after the past three 14+ hour days on site for the event(we all got there an hour before the pits opened, and usually stayed close to an hour after), they're taking a few days off...
Ken Delaney
29-04-2002, 12:29
Buzz Team #175 won the national chairman's award. The major focus of thier presentation was the Tinker Toy league they started for third grade students in their school district. They had a remote controlled vehicle made out giant tinker toy pieces they made. It was a real eye catcher. It got my attention. I ended up talking to them for 20 minutes about the league.
The SOAP Team recorded the Awards onto VHS tape and have the assignment of digitizing it and posting onto our website. Also one of our teammates wrote down the Newton Divisional Award winners and the Championship Award winners...... We'll post that stuff too ASAP.
Regards,
KA-108 :cool:
Joe Menassa
29-04-2002, 15:50
Team 121 won the Motorola Quality Award.
Originally posted by Nate Smith
Most of the FIRST staff is still down in Florida or on their way back, as none of their flights left until this morning(Monday). The awards page most likely needs to be hand-generated, and after the past three 14+ hour days on site for the event(we all got there an hour before the pits opened, and usually stayed close to an hour after), they're taking a few days off...
Nate, I appreciate your perspective and I certainly understand the need for some time off for the staff (and the teams), but I'd think if FIRST has found a way to post match results within minutes they could find a way to do the same with the award results. That the champions are easily found and the Chairman's Award winner impossible seem at odds with FIRST's message that the Chairman's Award is the highest honor a team can win.
Chubtoad
29-04-2002, 17:39
Originally posted by Nate Smith
Most of the FIRST staff is still down in Florida or on their way back, as none of their flights left until this morning(Monday).
Actually when we were heading back on Sunday around 9 or 10am, Woodie was online for Check in at the Airport!!! It was SOOO COOL! Cause WOODIE'S THE MAN!!! and we saw one of the members of Survivor III Africa. Crazy stuff man, Crazy stuff! Heh, I should have met up with you, we were in Newton and you could have always changed that one DQ to a winning match, which would have put us in top seed! hehe, Great job to the FIRST guys ( and ladies) it was awesome!!
Originally posted by JHBurch
Nate, I appreciate your perspective and I certainly understand the need for some time off for the staff (and the teams), but I'd think if FIRST has found a way to post match results within minutes they could find a way to do the same with the award results. That the champions are easily found and the Chairman's Award winner impossible seem at odds with FIRST's message that the Chairman's Award is the highest honor a team can win.
They will do it eventually.
Did you notice how fast the Einstein stage got torn down after the final match? All the computers, especially those that run the Scoring database, were all torn down in minutes. Also the master server back in the Inet tent was being disconnected.
This year and prior, the database FTP'd static files for match results and seeding. We have suggested plans for improvement- mainly dealing with live inserts of the award winners, or better? yet pushing the award winner records to a real-time server and time-releasing the data. This way the results can be pushed before the massive tear-down, yet later that night, say 9pm, all the award winners can be seen on a website, paged to your celphone, queryable via ODBC, or whatever....
KA-108 :cool:
go here: http://www.soap108.com/2002/events/cmp/awards.cfm
Also the Animation awardees:
114 (Overall winner)
849 (Rising Star)
64 (Compelling Creativity)
166 (Content Communication)
45 (Technical Excellence)
111 (???)
610 (Honorable Mention)
488 (Honorable Mention)
Founders Award
Guy from KPCB
Chairman's Award
175 - Buzz
Later,
SOAP Team
Team 108 - SigmaC@T
Einstein SemiFinalists with 313 and 312.
Sunny Thaper
29-04-2002, 23:41
Originally posted by soap108
go here: http://www.soap108.com/2002/events/cmp/awards.cfm
Also the Animation awardees:
114 (Overall winner)
849 (Rising Star)
64 (Compelling Creativity)
166 (Content Communication)
45 (Technical Excellence)
111 (???)
610 (Honorable Mention)
488 (Honorable Mention)
Founders Award
Guy from KPCB
Chairman's Award
175 - Buzz
Later,
SOAP Team
Team 108 - SigmaC@T
Einstein SemiFinalists with 313 and 312. 111, 610, and 488 were actually Inventor winners which is a completely different category.
Andy Baker
30-04-2002, 14:39
The Woodie Flowers winner was Dave Verbrugge. Dave is an engineer with GM and one of the leaders of the HOT team (67). He played the role of emcee at the Great Lakes and Motorola Midwest Regionals, along with filling that role on one of the fields at the Championships.
Dave is an excellent guy and greatly deserves this award.
By the way... has anyone else noticed that the Midwest has dominated the Woodie Flowers award recently? For the past four years, the award has gone to people in Michigan or Indiana.
Congrats, Dave!
Andy B.
SharkBite
30-04-2002, 14:51
i dont know if i missed it but there are two awards that i expected to see given out and didnt
first of all there was the best play award, does anybody know who got that (did it exist this time?)
and same goes for the high score award..... i thought there was one.......
Nate Smith
30-04-2002, 19:07
Originally posted by SharkBite
i dont know if i missed it but there are two awards that i expected to see given out and didnt
first of all there was the best play award, does anybody know who got that (did it exist this time?)
and same goes for the high score award..... i thought there was one.......
Incredible play award was given within each division before the overall finals...same with #1 seed(the closest I can think of to your "high score award"...don't remember off hand who won any of them, but FIRST should have it up shortly...
Dave V was also the emcee at the Buckeye regional. We thought he did a fantastic job.
Pic of Dave at the Buckeye Regional (http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OEP/first/regional/gallery/2002/large/DSC00230.JPG)
--Shanessa
NASA Glenn Research Center
Originally posted by Andy Baker
............along with filling that role on one of the fields at the Championships.
Andy B.
He was on Newton.
KA
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