Does FIRST give out too many awards? (Opinion)

[Conor Ryan]

I have many different medals an trophies in my room, some of them I out right won in competition, but some of them are just participation medals. while I do value the ones i won more than the participation medals, I still look back on my old participation medals as a reminder of what i did and all the work I did. If nothing else its always fun to go back a few years after you won something and then look at it and remember all the exciting things you did back in the day. But the people that got all the "extra" awards diffenetly earned them and such, and its always to be congradulated on an award.

Also consider the fact that in each award, you are going up against the ENTIRE field, not just the teams that don't already have an award.