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Re: [FRC Blog] Judged Awards in 2017
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Originally Posted by Mike Schreiber
Whys is the Engineering Excellence award listed in "Awards Based on Creativity and Innovation"
Nothing in the description implies you need creativity or innovation.
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From a very fast search:
el·e·gant
/ˈeləɡənt/
adjective
(of a scientific theory or solution to a problem) pleasingly ingenious and simple.
"the grand unified theory is compact and elegant in mathematical terms"
synonyms: neat, simple, effective; ingenious, clever, deft, intelligent, inventive
"an elegant solution"
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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