pic: FIRST Proposed Medallion and Pin

[Chris is me]

The "Safety Recognition" pins would replace the entire current Safety Award program. Instead of teams trying to out do each other to win the Safety Award, why not have the Safety Advisers bestow "Safety Recognition" pins to individuals, not teams, who are "caught" acting safely during the competitions. This would encourage people to actually be safe, not just try to win a safety award by trying to out do the other teams. I think students, and especially mentors and Safety Advisers would appreciate this change.

This is largely already done. There's the Safety Award, two Safety Stars (individual awards), and pins for winning lots of safety tokens.

[Tetraman]

I think having a shirt with 5-6 pins from each year on my shirt would look really awesome. Like Military stripes or Scout badges.

I think they should defiently keep the Gold, Silver and Chairman Medals, as those are some serious bling, but I guess the pins would work.

And as skimoose suggested, they are giving out volunteer pins, for 1 year volunteering, 3 year, 5 year and 10 year. But you have a point, why stop there? If they are going to save some money by using pins, then lets make more pins for more situations!