FIRST Awards Summary

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FIRST Awards Summary
Chairmans Award was created to keep the central
focus of the FIRST Robotics Competition as our
ultimate goal for transforming the culture in
ways that will inspire greater levels of respect
and honor for science and technology, as well as
encourage more of todays youth to become
scientists, engineers, and technologists. It
represents the spirit of FIRST honoring the
team that best represents a model for other teams
to emulate and which embodies the goals and
purpose of FIRST. It remains the most
prestigious team award FIRST presents.   DaimlerCh
rysler Team Spirit Award celebrates extraordinary
enthusiasm and spirit through exceptional
partnership and teamwork.   Delphis Driving
Tomorrows Technology Award celebrates an elegant
and advantageous machine feature. This award
recognizes any aspect of engineering elegance
including, but not limited to design, wiring
methods, material selection, programming
techniques, and unique machine attributes.
  Engineering Inspiration Award celebrates a
teams outstanding success in advancing respect
and appreciation for engineering and engineers,
both within their school as well as their
community. Criteria include the extent and
inventiveness of the teams efforts to recruit
students to engineering, the extent and
effectiveness of the teams community outreach
efforts, and the measurable success of those
efforts. This is the second highest team award
FIRST bestows.   Johnson and Johnson
Sportsmanship Award celebrates outstanding
sportsmanship and continuous gracious
professionalism in the heat of competition, both
on and off the playing field.   Kleiner, Perkins,
Caufield Byers Entrepreneurship Award
celebrates the Entrepreneurial Spirit. This award
recognizes a team, which since its inception has
developed the framework for a comprehensive
business plan in order to scope, manage, and
obtain team objectives. This team displays
entrepreneurial enthusiasm and the vital business
skills for a self-sustaining program.   Motorola
Quality Award celebrates machine robustness in
concept and fabrication.   Most Photogenic Award
celebrates attractiveness in engineering and
outstanding visual aesthetic integration from the
machine to team appearance (this award is now
called the Imagery Award).   Woodie Flowers Award
is awarded to an outstanding engineer or teacher
participating in each of the robotics Regional
Competitions. Students choose and write about a
person on their team who best demonstrates
excellence in teaching science, math and creative
design. Until 2004, there was only a national
winner. In 2004, each regional awarded a winner,
who then went into the National pool of awardees.
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Team RUSH Awards
1997 Motorola Quality Award, Midwest Regional
1998 Judges Award Against All Odds Award, Great
Lakes Regional 16th place overall, National
Championship
1999 Champions, Midwest Regional Champions,
Great Lakes Regional Most Photogenic Award,
Midwest and Great Lakes Regionals 4th place
overall, National Championship Autodesk Design
Your Future Award - Becky Sherman, National
Championship
2000 National Woodie Flowers Award Mrs. Kyle
Hughes National 20,000 FIRST-Kettering
Scholarship - Lyron Maxey
2001 Johnson Johnson Sportsmanship Award, UTC
Regional DaimlerChrysler Team Spirit Award, Great
Lakes Regional
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Team RUSH Awards
2002 Finalists, West Michigan Regional National
20,000 FIRST-Kettering Scholarship - Seth
Henderson Finalists, Oakland County Competitive
Robotics Association
2003 Champions, Buckeye Regional Finalists, Great
Lakes Regional 3rd place, National Championship
Archimedes Division Motorola Quality Award,
National Championship Champions, Indiana Robotics
Invitational Champions, Ford Sweet Repeat
Robotics Invitational Champions, Oakland County
Competitive Robotics Association Kleiner,
Perkins, Caufield and Byers Entrepreneurship
Award, Buckeye Regional Delphi Driving Tomorrow's
Technology Award, Great Lakes Regional
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Team RUSH Awards
2004 Chairman's Award, Great Lakes
Regional Woodie Flowers Award - Tim Flickinger,
Great Lakes Regional Motorola Quality Award,
Midwest Regional National 20,000 FIRST-Kettering
Scholarships - Bryan Duggan Kurt
Wachowski Finalists, National Championship
Galileo Division Finalist 1st Seed, Kettering
Kickoff Robotics Invitational All Girls
Robotics Champion and Team Spirit Award Winner,
Ford Sweet Repeat Semi-Finalist 2nd Seed,
Oakland County Competitive Robotics Association
2005 Motorola Quality Award, Detroit
Regional Quarter-finalist 9th Seed, Detroit
Regional Engineering Inspiration Award, West
Michigan Regional Finalist 2nd Seed, West
Michigan Regional Quarter-Finalist 3rd Seed,
National Championship Archimedes
Division National 20,000 FIRST Kettering
Scholarships Austin Duggan
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A Brief Team History
Team Rush 27 No Main
Anthony Lapp
Josh Frisch
Shannon Schnepp
John Nielson
Justin Ridley
Jason Markesino
Team Rush