Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

We would be more then willing to help come up with ideas and design a better award.

Libby,
Maybe it's because I'm on my phone, but I do not see an email in your signature.

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

I'll pop in and say I CADed that, and many other derivations per ideas Alex had, and would be happy to work with FIRST or TPD on making new trophies.

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

I'll add in myself to this as well. Our team has a bunch of trophy designs that we can toss into the pool.

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

Akash,you did the CAD for the 2012 Ruckus award. Right?

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

Good point.

If you'd like to email me: Libby(dot)Kamen(at)Gmail(dot)com

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

Nope, but I would be willing to! I said I'll add myself into the group of people willing to give some designs because my team has a few of our own.

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

Libby,

I'll send you an e-mail too. While I myself am not good at award design, several members of my team are fantastic at it. All of our trophies for Where's Wolcott have been designed in house, and often some if not all of the fabrication takes place in house as well.

We also turned out some pretty awesome participation trophies for our inaugural Jr. FLL event we held this year.

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

I'd be willing to help you out with this. Let me know if you need some help.

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

We will keep that in mind. The designs for these awards, and a few others are on our to do list do after championships. The list keeps growing!

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

I'm on board as well, if you guys need help. As I think California is moving to a district model in a few years, I would be incredibly angry if our awards get downsized to these cheap trophies.

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

Turns out you can't even order extra trophies with the "Regional" style if you won that award at a District event. :(

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

Thanks for all the helpful responses. I've planned on getting this going after the events are over - so if you've emailed me already, don't worry, I'll get to you.

If you haven't yet and want to help, go for it!

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

I hate to fan the fire like this, but they also gave out some pretty neat extras to 'regional' competitors that they didn't bother to hand out at any districts last year.

It's melodramatic, but why are district teams treated a bit like red-headed step-children? (No offense to the red-headed step-children, of course)

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

From what I gather, FRC complained it was costing over twice as much per team registration fee because district teams get two events per registration and the districts average fewer teams than the regionals. So, rather than making up the difference, the districts agreed to accept less expensive trophies. They then dropped the ball when they failed to oversee the transaction, which enabled FRC to supply trophies that were way less than half the cost.

Re: 2012 Awards/Trophies
 

Wouldn't be too hard to do a spin off one of our earlier award models.