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Our team won NYC Rookie all star last year and went to St. Louis. And I agree with Jacob, if you try to go for rookie all star just so you can get to St. Louis you won't get anywhere (heck our team didn't know rookie all star sent you to champions until a couple of hours before they handed the awards out.

A few points of advice:
FIRST loves propoganda/advertisement. Getting involved in your community and spreading the ideas/name of FIRST is a big thumbsup for this award. Even if you don't actually get to do anything, if you show the judges you want to take initiative and go out into the community for the sake of STEM that's good too. Least year or team had basically done nothing but come up with a plan to get involved in the community (run a robotics summer camp, get involved with the local PAL, etc.). We made the plans, made the partnerships necessary to realize those plans and viola, we won.

Best of luck!!