Wow... found yet another definition....
http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...-%20Awards.pdf
Rookie All Star
This award 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
This award celebrates a rookie team’s
outstanding success in advancing
respect and appreciation for engineering
and engineers both within their school,
as well as in their community.
(Interesting to note that a lot of you have been talking about how the RAS award includes working with the community, but in this text (which is taken from the actual PDF manual) the RI award mentioned working with the community, the RAS specifically seems to be more geared to working more with the students and inspiring them and having a strong partnership effort)...