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Speaking on behalf of WVU (I am also the Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development at WVU), the goal of the scholarships was to attract high quality students to WVU. There were 4 scholarships given out. These are academic scholarships and the threshold criteria are pretty stiff (3.8 GPA, 30 on the ACT or 1340 on the SAT) and so it really is an academic scholarship - and it is a full scholarship (worth $4,000 to an in-state student and over $10,000 to an out of state student). Each of the three winning teams has one week to nominate a student who has or will try to meet those criteria (the scholarship could go to a student who isn't going to be a senior this fall). The 4th scholarship went to a team who coach won a judged award based on student entries for an outstanding coach/mentor nomination. WVU is very interested in building up our engineering program with great students and FIRST students are perfect for recruiting. FIRSTers might not know it, but in four different NASA robotics challenges this summer, WVU took first place; beating out teams from MIT and elsewhere. So were are serious about good students. I am working on finding a donor to endow these sorts of scholarships in the future (if we are crazy enough to do WVRoX again). We left it up to the teams to develop their own nomination process, just like FIRST does for the Deans List award. Any other questions about the process, just get in touch with me and I would be happy to answer them.