I'm kind of torn by that concept... to me a Rookie Team is a team that that is new to US First, they may have started their season 12 months before the first season kick-off, or started two weeks before the kick-off... hence both these teams haven't had the same time to work with the community... Heck just a rookie teams ability to get started is showing a huge effort in working with the community... at least where I live it is....
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...ookie+All-Star
1.Rookie All-Star Award – to recognize outstanding achievement by a first year team;
http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...nal_Awards.pdf
Celebrates the rookie team exemplifying a
young but strong partnership effort, as well
as implementing the mission of FIRST to
inspire students to learn more about science
and technology.
Rookie Inspiration Award
Celebrates a rookie team for outstanding
effort as a FIRST team in community outreach
and recruiting students to engineering.
Does anyone else think this is kind of confusing... as the Rookie Team Criteria is (arguably) different than the awards section, and in my opinion the Inspiration Award and All-Star award sound almost identical with the exception of the young but strong partnership effort.....
Also on your comment about what they are doing with-in the community doesn't that sound more like the inspiration award? "community outreach"?
I mean so does strong partnership.... which is why I find this confusing.. it almost sounds like these are "almost" the same award but at 2 different levels of expectation, if that makes any sense?