Celebrates attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration of machine and team appearance.

Celebrates form and function in an efficiently designed machine that effectively achieves the game challenge.

See 2007 Pacific Northwest Regional for description

During the course of the competition the judging panel may decide a team’s unique efforts, performance, or dynamics merit recognition.

This award celebrates the team or alliance that makes it to the final match of the competition.

Celebrates machine robustness in concept and fabrication.

The Woodie Flowers Award celebrates effective communication in the art and science of engineering and design. Dr. William Murphy founded this prestigious award in 1996 to recognize mentors who lead, inspire, and empower using excellent communication skills. The Woodie Flowers Award is presented to an outstanding engineer or teacher participating in the robotics competition who best demonstrates excellence in teaching science, math, and creative design.

Celebrates creativity in design, use of component, or strategy of play.

FIRST’s most prestigious award, it honors the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the purpose and goals of FIRST. The award helps keep the central focus of the FIRST Robotics Competition on the goal of inspiring greater levels of respect and honor for science and technology.