What Awards would you like to see?

[Dantvman27]

If you could add new awards to FIRST at any level, what would they be?

I for one would like to possibly see some field awards brought back. I mean other than tournament winner and finalist, there are no awards for what is done on the field. I know there used to be some but i don't know what sorts of awards there should be. I just wish there was a little more focus on the field and actual application of the robot instead of theoretical things in the pit, i don't mean to sound demeaning, and someone please let me know if i am, but I have seen on more than one occasion an award given to a robot for features that do not work, or didn't do that well on the field. Maybe i am incorrect and the judges are paying attention to the field more than i think they are


anyone have any input on this?

[Koko Ed]

Bring back Play of the Day and have it voted on by the audience.

[Akash Rastogi]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=61408

Similar thread. I'd bring back event 1st seed award.

[Ryan Simpson]

There should be a mascot dance-off!!!

[,4lex S.]

Regional CAD award, not software specific. There is a lot of brilliant design work that goes relatively unrewarded on the local level.

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by ,4lex S.

Regional CAD award, not software specific. There is a lot of brilliant design work that goes relatively unrewarded on the local level.

I agree with that. There is a tremendous amount of CAD work that goes into Robots that does not get mentioned.

-RC

[BrendanB]

I don't think there is anything wrong with saying that there should be some award for that stuff Dan.

What I would like to see:
-1st seed(kinda)
-High score (goes to the members of the alliance with the high score of the weekend)
-Play of the Day
-Mad driving skills.(this is something I have thought of for a while, an award given to the team whose drive team has guess what, mad skills.)

My$0.02

[typharn91]

i would like one for say like a cool or interesting like electrical layout design or for the coolest controls box could be voted on by the other teams like tha animation

[Jared Russell]

REGIONAL CAD!

This above all else is a gaping hole in the current awards structure, in my opinion. The students spend too much time designing and CADing their robot to not get more recognition.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Jared341

REGIONAL CAD!

This above all else is a gaping hole in the current awards structure, in my opinion. The students spend too much time designing and CADing their robot to not get more recognition.

Perhaps some emails and letters are in order.

Definitely regional CAD awards. Too bad we wouldn't be able to submit in Solidworks though. >.<

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Perhaps some emails and letters are in order.

Definitely regional CAD awards. Too bad we wouldn't be able to submit in Solidworks though. >.<

See that bites, I understand that Inventor sponsors FIRST and their is a National Inventor Award. Maybe at the regional level it can be any piece of software? IDK how FIRST would take it, but man, CAD is a HUGE portion of Building the robot.

Well, I would love to start the chain of sending emails. Anyone else down?

-RC

[OZ_341]

Originally Posted by rc_cola1323

I agree with that. There is a tremendous amount of CAD work that goes into Robots that does not get mentioned.

-RC

Definitely Regional CAD.
It's an activity closely tied to the Engineering process that goes largely unrewarded or encouraged. 1600 teams waiting all year to possibly be in the Final 5 at the Championship is a discouraging prospect for kids that busted their tails making incredibly detailed layouts.
You could argue that the reward should be in the finished product (and it is for the most part) but that could be said about every other award we strive to win in FIRST.
Lets give these kids doing CAD something local to shoot for.

[Chexposito]

Originally Posted by ,4lex S.

Regional CAD award, not software specific. There is a lot of brilliant design work that goes relatively unrewarded on the local level.

I completely agree. There are not enough CAD awards. There are a lot of teams that do really good stuff and don't get recognized. A regional CAD award would get a lot more teams competitive about CAD. The Regional level could be peer judged.

I talked to one of the judges last year. The reason they want inventor is that they can see what was done with the CAD. The few teams that have the extra software can use that, but if you want national recognition, do everything in inventor. Everything not made in inventor is against you. He also said that every year they work on inventor they are striving for the same level as other softwares. Also they are changing some stuff this year. Project files are required if i remember right. They will make a file structure for the submission, so they can know where everything is at.

[Katie_UPS]

I love the idea of more chances to recieve a trophy from FIRST, but most of these awards are peer awards that teams give to eachother anyways. Like the "best scorer" and "best play of the day".

I do like, though, the idea for teams to send a representative down to recieve certain awards... I'm glad your team won it, but when your team tends to be over 30 people (ahem, 111), it can get long.

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Katie_UPS

I love the idea of more chances to recieve a trophy from FIRST, but most of these awards are peer awards that teams give to eachother anyways. Like the "best scorer" and "best play of the day".

I do like, though, the idea for teams to send a representative down to recieve certain awards... I'm glad your team won it, but when your team tends to be over 30 people (ahem, 111), it can get long.

or 20. I think there was about 70+ students who came down to the field.

I'm sure that FIRST could come out with some creative way to distribute awards if it got too big. Like just announcing the team name and number and then the trophy would be given to the team in the pits afterwords. This of course would only be for smaller/minorish awards.