[cdennisxlx2]

Originally Posted by Adam Y.

This is FIRST not college. The end results matter more because there is no way you are going to teach the intermediary steps for them to do it the right way.

i disagree, i have done extensive teaching for programming and web design to a team for 3 years and there is plenty of time to teach the correct succession of steps. As to the comment about being FIRST not college, FIRST is a pre-engineering program, a lot of the students who go through FIRST become engineers. So why not send them off with the correct information and knowledge? I have had ex students contact me and tell me how much my instruction has helped them in their current field.

As for the award... I don't think there should be one, the reason is that a lot of teams have software engineers that do a lot of their programming for them and there would be no way to actually prove the code is student written. Also what about the teams who use easy c, that pretty much makes the layout for you and there isn't much actual coding which, in my opinion, would take away from the spirit of the award[any award for that matter].