Web Excellence Award Winners (Which Teams?)

[dez250]

Originally Posted by iBob

I'd like to see a list of the 75 teams that got the recognition... is there one?

Heres the regional website excellence award recievers.
http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2004...te_winners.htm

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by dez250

Heres the regional website excellence award recievers.
http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2004...te_winners.htm

That's been tried already--it's just the winners:

Originally Posted by opnickc

FIRST already made an entire list:
http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/200...ite_winners.htm
[EDIT] That's only a list of the best website awards, it doesn't include the excellence award.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by dez250

Heres the regional website excellence award recievers.
http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2004...te_winners.htm

I think there's a lot of confusion here. Let me copy and paste the following information from the Awards section of the 2004 Competition Manual. It should clear a lot of things up for all of you:

8.8 WEBSITE DESIGN AWARDS

The Website Design Award recognizes excellence in student-designed, built, and managed FIRST team websites. Eligible websites are judged/scored PRIOR to the competition by a panel of judges. Two subcategories of awards will be given for website design:

1) “Website Excellence”

2) “Best Website.”

Every submission that meets the FIRST website design standards of excellence will receive the Website Excellence award. Website Excellence award winners will receive an electronic certificate to include on their websites, and will be featured prominently on the FIRST website. At each Regional Competition, there will be one award for Best Website. The overall championship Best Website award winners will be chosen from among the regional winners.

8.8.1 Submission and Deadline Information

Only team websites that are entered into the FIRST team management information system via the FIRST website by noon (12:00 p.m.) on February 20, 2004 will be judged. Team websites are eligible for these awards at every regional event in which the team is competing. Only one electronic Website Excellence certificate will be awarded per team for the entire competition season. A team is eligible to win the Best Website award at multiple regional events.

Aside from the fact that they posted the Regional Best Website winners on the FIRST website instead of all the 75 Website Excellence winners (which makes perfect sense), I believe everything stated in the rules above is correct. As long as your website was registered with FIRST's TIMS system by the deadline, your team was automatically entered into consideration for both awards.

[Adam Y.]

Taken from your website:

Fixed-size: This was done for a number of reasons such as to-the-pixel element positioning, and content delivery to different media and resolutions. You'll notice that this website works in screen resolutions as low as 800 x 600 pixels. Those with anything above 1600 x 1200 (which is four times larger than 800 x 600) pixel resolution may have difficulty reading the text, but that is easily remedied by altering the text size in-browser.

I love your website. Its very nice looking and one of my favorites. I like the alternate style sheets. Too bad IE doesn't support the ability to change them through the menu's like Mozilla. Though I really wonder why most people go for absolute positioning and not relative.

[Manoel]

Team 383 won (one of?) the Website Excellence Award(s?) at the Midwest regional.

Here's the site in English

[OZ_341]

I think there is some confusion about the purpose of the thread. Please read this carefully.

FIRST has posted the Best Web Site Winners for each regional. That is a very good resource.

But FIRST has not (as far as I can tell) posted the 75 Web Excellence Winners.

The intent of the thread is to find the 75 teams that won the Web Excellence Award, have those teams respond with their links and just leave a brief description of why they think they were awarded the honor.

Please reread the thread starter and you'll see what we are looking for. Thanks to everyone that responded so far and good luck in the off-season!!

Team 1097 won a Website Excellence Award at SVR.

http://robotics.jhs.net

I would say our site has a good looking design and awesome graphics (which were actually used on our shirts) but hasn't been updated too often. Also, we were informed that our text is a little too small...could we have some feedback on this?

[Joshua May]

I'm not quite sure if our team got an excellence award or not. I haven't talked to our advisor much since competition, and I have forgotten to ask him.

[Ryan Dognaux]

234 got it at Arizona

[Paul Copioli]

217 got it at Detroit and at MidWest.

[kjohnson]

616 got the Website Excellence Award.

- Kept the site design the same through all the pages, easy to navigate, two links to FIRST on every page, keep site updated, have pictures and videos (and a random MIDI on each page).

[Goobergunch]

Team 1168 (Malvern Robotics) won a website excellence award - we have an easy-to-navigate site written in PHP with a constant navigation header and footer on every page, as well as a consistent color scheme.

http://www.friarbot.com/

[OZ_341]

Yes!!

Posts number 26 & 27 are the format we are looking for to complete this thread.

Thank you!!

Lets get all 75!!!

[Zzyzx]

Team 492 recieved the Best Website Award in the Pacific Northwest Regional

[Pierson]

For those of you who are receiving the website excellence award. How is FIRST presenting it to your team? Are they e-mailing it to your webmaster? To your main contact? Who from FIRST is making the contact with your team?

Our e-mail server was down the last two weeks and I am <shameless plug> rather partial to our site </> but the server is now back up and it would be really cool if we received one of the awards.