AWARDS HELP

[SuperJake]

Originally Posted by Freddy204

Our team is having a robotics banquet in a couple of months and I am in charge with the awards portion of the night. So I asking the FIRST community for some help. I was wondering if anybody has any awards that they give out and what they are called and if you could tell me a little bit about the award you give. I am open to all suggestions and I would greatly appreciate it.

Back in my day, we did all sorts of awards. Everyone got at least one serious award, and there was definitely TONS of silly inside-joke awards. It was great in that everyone got more than one award and you got to look back at all of the funny things everyone did. However, since we have 60+ people on the team including all the parents, engineers, alumni, students, and whoever else frequented the build area during the season, it took FOREVER... like 2+ hours.

The awards didn't have to be anything fancy, most of them were powerpoint slides printed on nice paper - sometimes there was a frame or something. The best awards tended to come from the engineers and boosterz (parent support group for the team) that had WAY too much free time on their hands. Often times they would get parts that were rejected because a student did something crazy during fabrication and would mount them on wooden plaques and call them funny names. My brother got 7 versions of his battery box design - the 7 before the one that made it on the competition robot - arranged on a little balanced dangly thing (think solar system models from elementary science classes).

The meaningful things that were given out included slightly used robot side panels signed by everyone on the team for the drivers and a nicely framed picture of the team signed by everyone for the departing seniors. Have fun with your awards, but don't take a long time presenting them.

[AmyPrib]

Just try to positively recognize every member on your team. Determine what ways each member contributed and recognize them for it with a plaque, a certificate, or something you make/buy, etc. Then you can also have the "silly" awards - funny things happen to people throughout the season, so you can make sure everyone knows about it with an award of some sort that relates to it.
Be creative, fun, but also positive. Try to recognize everyone on the team and find some way to reward them. It can be about parts they built, the role they had on the team, or how they help during competition or whatever else you come up with.

[Conor Ryan]

This is something that you MUST take full advantage of as it can turn into a Very Funny Event

Here are a couple of my favorites
-Least Likely to Run out of Energy
-Next Dean Kamen
-The "We're not Sure What award to Give you So Here You Go" Award
-Most Quotable
-And the "Best Idea of the Year" Award, this can be your teams highest honor or something like that.

[Stina236]

Team 236 has a tradition that at our end of the season party/banquet the seniors make "paper-plate" awards for the rest of the members of the team. They're personalized, funny awards for each person. The senior girls this year (including myself) have been looking forward to making them for the past few years lol.