Ok. I wasn't clear.
By "trophy" I meant anything a team can construct, buy, or get donated if they need be. Not an actual "trophy" in the sense of something you would buy at a trophy store.
Some examples of team/group made trophies:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/25189
We made those at the HS with some extra metal, and our school's plasma cutter.
Some others
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/28944
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/28990
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/28719
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/28206
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/27751
As you can see, they can be as complicated, or as simply put as you want.
Just something that puts a personal touch on the competition, and gives teams something to display to sponsors/supporters/their schoosl/ etc. etc.
We were thinking of making trophy's of extra parts we had one of our sponsors laser cut for us this past year, but it never happened cause we ran out of time.
Be resourceful with what you have available in your shop.
A trophy making meeting can also bring together your team as much as a robot building meeting. Just think of it as a team building excercise before you hit that "order" button on the website with the ready made cups, or pens.
