Qualifying Tournament #1

Center Grove Middle School North

Results

Design Award
The Design Award expands on this year’s challenge, inspiring teams to incorporate industrial design into their robots.  These elements can be shown in the simplicity of the design as it applies to the tasks, the look and feel of the robot, or in how the design allows us to think of robots in new ways.  The design aspect must serve a function – but should also differentiate the robot in a unique fashion.

Third Place 6190 Red Alert: CyberStorm – from Greenwood, IN
Second Place 8149 Red Alert: Panic in the Build Room – from Greenwood, IN
Winner 21945 The Purple Roborioles – from Avon, IN

Motivate Award
The team that receives the Motivate Award celebrates the culture of FIRST and clearly shows what it means to be a team.  This award celebrates the team that represents the essence of the FIRST Tech Challenge competition through team building, team spirit, and displayed enthusiasm.  This is a team that makes a collective effort to make FIRST known throughout their school and community and sparks others to embrace the culture of FIRST.

Third Place 17994 Ragnabotics – from Poseyville, IN
Second Place 22068 Bug Bytes – from Indianapolis, IN
Winner 19366 CTF – from Bedford, IN

Control Award
The Control Award celebrates the team that demonstrates innovative thinking in the control system to solve game challenges such as autonomous operation, enhancing mechanical systems with intelligent control, or using sensors to achieve better results on the field.

Third Place 8149 Red Alert: Panic in the Build Room – from Greenwood, IN
Second Place 18505 Something to do with Waffles – from Bloomington, IN
Winner 14954 The Teal Roborioles – from Avon, IN

Innovate Award sponsored by RTX
The Innovate Award, sponsored by Raytheon Technologies, celebrates a team that has the ingenuity and inventiveness to make their designs come to life.  This award is given to the team that the Judges feel has the most innovative and creative robot design solution to the FIRST Tech Challenge game.  Elements of this award include elegant design, robustness, and ‘out of the box’ thinking.
This award may address the design of the whole robot or some sub-assembly component of the robot.  The creative component needs to work consistently, but a robot does not have to work all of the time during matches to be considered for this award.  The team’s engineering portfolio showed the design of the component(s) and the team’s robot and clearly explains how the team arrived at their solution.

Third Place 13295 Red Alert: Disaster Management – from Greenwood, IN
Second Place 3537 The MechaHamsters – from Greenwood, IN
Winner 11329 I.C.E. Robotics – from Bloomington, IN

Connect Award
The Connect Award is presented to the team that the Judges feel most connected with their local Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) community.  A true FIRST team is more than the sum of its parts and recognizes that engaging their local STEM community plays an essential part in their success.  The recipient of this award is recognized for helping the community understand FIRST, the FIRST Tech Challenge, and the team itself.  In addition, this team aggressively seeks and recruits engineers and explores the opportunities available in the world of engineering, science, and technology.

Third Place 24546 aROARa Arctic – from Charlottesville, IN, USA
Second Place 22132 Gearserkers – from Poseyville, IN, USA
Winner 12231 WarriorTech – from Denver, IN, USA

Think Award
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering portfolio is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team’s engineering portfolio focused on the design and build stage of the team’s Robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.

Third Place 18505 Something to do with Waffles – from Bloomington, IN, USA
Second Place 22049 Fried Wires – from Indianapolis, IN, USA
Winner 8791 Green Machine – from Greenwood, IN, USA

Finalist Alliance

Captain 3537 The MechaHamsters – from Greenwood, IN
1st Pick 18505 Something to do with Waffles – from Bloomington, IN
2nd Pick 14596 XLR8 – from Granger, IN

Winning Alliance

Captain 12014 FireWires – from Granger, IN
1st Pick 11329 I.C.E. Robotics – from Bloomington, IN
2nd Pick 12231 WarriorTech – from Denver, IN

Inspire Award
The Inspire Award is presented to the team that the Judges felt truly embodied the ‘challenge’ of the FIRST Tech Challenge program.  The team that receives this award is a strong ambassador for FIRST programs and works to promote FIRST and make it loud in their community.  The team that receives this award has performed well in all Judging categories and was chosen by the Judges as a model FIRST Tech Challenge team both on and off the playing field.  This team shares their experiences, enthusiasm, and knowledge with other teams, sponsors, their community, and the Judges.  Working as a unit, this team will have shown success in performing the task of designing and building a robot.

Third Place 14596 XLR8 – from Granger, IN
Second Place 12014 FireWires – from Granger, IN
Winner 15455 The Crimson Roborioles – from Avon, IN