Awards
Recent Awards
Our team won the Team Spirit Award at the New England FIRST District Championship - Ballard Division presented by Altair in the 2025 season. The Team Spirit Award elebrates extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit through exceptional partnership and teamwork furthering the objectives of FIRST. Spirit is consistent both throughout the team and also throughout the contest in attitude, appearance, originality, and depth.
Our team won the Excellence in Engineering Award at the NE District URI Event in the 2025 season. The Excellence in Engineering Award celebrates the team that demonstrates a professional approach to the design process. The designs reflect an engineering solution to a specific problem and are elegant and advantageous on the field of play.
Our team won the Gracious Professionalism® Award at the NE District Greater Boston Event in the 2025 season. The Gracious Professionalism® Award celebrates outstanding demonstration of FIRST Core Values such as continuous Gracious Professionalism and working together both on and off the playing field.
Our team won the Innovation in Control Award at the New England FIRST District Championship - Ganson Division in the 2024 season. The Innovation in Control Award celebrates an innovative control system or application of control components – electrical, mechanical or software – to provide unique machine functions. The control system is innovative and unique. It is integrated with the machine, human players, strategy, etc. in concept and execution. The innovation is practical; it addresses the game’s challenge and is reliable under the stress of competition.
Our team won the Judges' Award at the NE District Greater Boston Event in the 2024 season. During the course of the competition, the judging panel may decide a team’s unique efforts, performance, or dynamics merit recognition. This award celebrates that team.
Our team won the Quality Award at the NE District BSU Event in the 2024 season. This award celebrates machine robustness in concept and fabrication. The entire machine demonstrates quality: workmanship, welds, attachment systems, wiring, paint, etc, that allow it to withstand the rigors of competition – maintaining functionality, including the use of designed-in redundancy and risk mitigation measures.
Our team was proud Event Finalists at the NE District Greater Boston Event in the 2023 season.
Our team won the Quality Award at the NE District Greater Boston Event in the 2023 season. This award celebrates machine robustness in concept and fabrication. The entire machine demonstrates quality: workmanship, welds, attachment systems, wiring, paint, etc, that allow it to withstand the rigors of competition – maintaining functionality, including the use of designed-in redundancy and risk mitigation measures.
All Awards
This award is presented to the alliance that wins the event.
The Finalist Award celebrates the alliance that makes it to the final match of the competition.
The FIRST Impact Award honors the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the mission of FIRST. It focuses on the ultimate goal of transforming the world in ways that will inspire greater levels of respect and honor for science and technology, as well as encouraging more of today’s youth to become science and technology leaders.
This award celebrates machine robustness in concept and fabrication. The entire machine demonstrates quality: workmanship, welds, attachment systems, wiring, paint, etc, that allow it to withstand the rigors of competition – maintaining functionality, including the use of designed-in redundancy and risk mitigation measures.
The Creativity Award celebrates creativity that enhances strategy of play and was intentionally designed and not discovered. The creative element’s uniqueness has a practical application and contributes to the objectives of the competition.
The Excellence in Engineering Award celebrates the team that demonstrates a professional approach to the design process. The designs reflect an engineering solution to a specific problem and are elegant and advantageous on the field of play.
The Innovation in Control Award celebrates an innovative control system or application of control components – electrical, mechanical or software – to provide unique machine functions. The control system is innovative and unique. It is integrated with the machine, human players, strategy, etc. in concept and execution. The innovation is practical; it addresses the game’s challenge and is reliable under the stress of competition.
The Entrepreneurship Award celebrates a team that integrates sustainable, professional design into the structure and management of the team.
The Engineering Inspiration Award celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s school or organization and community. The team demonstrates a commitment to science and technology education among the team, school, and community, and achievement of the FIRST mission and ability to communicate that at the competition and away from it.
The Gracious Professionalism® Award celebrates outstanding demonstration of FIRST Core Values such as continuous Gracious Professionalism and working together both on and off the playing field.
The Team Spirit Award elebrates extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit through exceptional partnership and teamwork furthering the objectives of FIRST. Spirit is consistent both throughout the team and also throughout the contest in attitude, appearance, originality, and depth.
During the course of the competition, the judging panel may decide a team’s unique efforts, performance, or dynamics merit recognition. This award celebrates that team.
The Sportsmanship Award celebrates the team that exemplifies Coopertition and Gracious Professionalism in competition.
The Defense Award celebrates a member of an alliance that provides invaluable and strong defense.
The Rookie All-Star award celebrates the rookie team exemplifying a young but strong partnership effort, as well as implementing the mission of FIRST to inspire students to learn more about science and technology.