[Anthony4004]

Team 4004 won the award at the 2014 Gull Lake District Event in Michigan this past weekend. The main reason we won the award was not due to having some incredibly insane robot that would never loose (we were in 26th place with a 5-7 record). We did however have a few very interesting things that our robot had, that most team do not. These included the ability to completely take off the superstructure of the robot, leaving behind the completely contained drive base that can still operate fully. We also have a few other really cool small things like an arduino controlled control box for my co-driver to operate during the match for several features on our robot. These two reasons were the main reasons why we won the award. Over the course of the two-day event, we literally had every single judge come to our pit to see these two features and were amazed, making sure to come back several times to look at it again and again.
As for what you can do for this season, I don't really believe that you could do anything that would greatly enhance the design of your robot, as these things were all apart of our beginning plan with out robot, which we then produced through our robot. As for what you can do in the future, you cant truly work towards winning this award, as it is simply something that comes about during the design process and what the judges decide is "cool". We had no idea that we would win this award and were truly mesmerized when our team was called down during awards. Good Luck in the future!

Anthony- Team 4004