First Off Season prizes

[JaneYoung]

It might be neat for you to come up with awards that are unique and something that would become a welcome tradition that your team or organization has made.

We made awards to give to teams at a competition this fall. They were made in our wood shop by our team and it was great fun. We will probably make this a tradition. If we were to help host an off season at some point, we would work off this experience because it has been so positive.

[Blue_Mist]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Ok. I wasn't clear.
By "trophy" I meant anything a team can construct, buy, or get donated if they need be. Not an actual "trophy" in the sense of something you would buy at a trophy store...

...As you can see, they can be as complicated, or as simply put as you want.
Just something that puts a personal touch on the competition, and gives teams something to display to sponsors/supporters/their schoosl/ etc. etc.

We were thinking of making trophy's of extra parts we had one of our sponsors laser cut for us this past year, but it never happened cause we ran out of time.

Be resourceful with what you have available in your shop.
A trophy making meeting can also bring together your team as much as a robot building meeting. Just think of it as a team building excercise before you hit that "order" button on the website with the ready made cups, or pens.

For 2006, a trophy might have been our prize poof ball. Our team had this really cool poof ball that had about a twelfth of its total volume ripped out during a demonstration. In one chunk. Somehow the rest of the ball was fine... Does this count as a trophy?

[Akash Rastogi]

I think a cool "trophy" for the Israeli off season would be something that truly represent your team, Israel FIRST, or the whole robotics community in your area. So the question is...what symbolizes Israel FIRST for you?