2023-2024
Red Tornado Qualifier - Lancaster, PA
*THINK AWARD WINNER
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
*INSPIRE AWARD THIRD PLACE WINNER
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
Greyhound Sprint Qualifier - York, PA
*CONTROL AWARD WINNER
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.
*INSPIRE AWARD THIRD PLACE WINNER
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
*THINK AWARD WINNER
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
*INSPIRE AWARD THIRD PLACE WINNER
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
Greyhound Sprint Qualifier - York, PA
*CONTROL AWARD WINNER
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.
*INSPIRE AWARD THIRD PLACE WINNER
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
2022-2023
Eastern Pennsylvania Qualifying Tournament
*DIVISION FINALIST ALLIANCE MEMBER
*INSPIRE AWARD THIRD PLACE WINNER
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
*CONNECT AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Connect Award is presented to the team that the Judges' feel most connected with their local community, FIRST and the business world. The best team is more than the sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to 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, the team that wins this award is aggressively seeking engineers and other STEM professionals and exploring the opportunities available in the world of science and technology.
*DIVISION FINALIST ALLIANCE MEMBER
*INSPIRE AWARD THIRD PLACE WINNER
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
*CONNECT AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Connect Award is presented to the team that the Judges' feel most connected with their local community, FIRST and the business world. The best team is more than the sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to 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, the team that wins this award is aggressively seeking engineers and other STEM professionals and exploring the opportunities available in the world of science and technology.
2019-2020
Pennsylvania State Championship Tournament
*DIVISION FINALIST ALLIANCE MEMBER
*DEAN'S LIST FINALIST (Jacob Reese)
In an effort to recognize the leadership and dedication of FIRST’s most outstanding FIRST Tech Challenge students, the Kamen family sponsors an award for selected top students known as the FIRST Dean’s List.
*DIVISION FINALIST ALLIANCE MEMBER
*DEAN'S LIST FINALIST (Jacob Reese)
In an effort to recognize the leadership and dedication of FIRST’s most outstanding FIRST Tech Challenge students, the Kamen family sponsors an award for selected top students known as the FIRST Dean’s List.
Lehigh Valley Qualifying Tournament
*WINNING ALLIANCE CAPTAIN
*CONTROL AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Control Award celebrates a team that uses sensors and software to increase the robot’s functionality on the field. This award is given to the team that demonstrates innovative thinking in the control system to solve game challenges such as autonomous operation, improving mechanical systems with intelligent control, or using sensors to achieve better results on the field. The control component should work consistently on the field. The team’s engineering notebook must contain details about the implementation of the software, sensors, and mechanical control.
*INNOVATE AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Collins Aerospace Innovate Award 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 with regard to design. 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 notebook showed the design of the component(s) and the team's robot, and clearly explains how the team arrived at their solution.
*WINNING ALLIANCE CAPTAIN
*CONTROL AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Control Award celebrates a team that uses sensors and software to increase the robot’s functionality on the field. This award is given to the team that demonstrates innovative thinking in the control system to solve game challenges such as autonomous operation, improving mechanical systems with intelligent control, or using sensors to achieve better results on the field. The control component should work consistently on the field. The team’s engineering notebook must contain details about the implementation of the software, sensors, and mechanical control.
*INNOVATE AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Collins Aerospace Innovate Award 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 with regard to design. 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 notebook showed the design of the component(s) and the team's robot, and clearly explains how the team arrived at their solution.
South Central PA Qualifying Tournament
*INSPIRE AWARD WINNER (State Qualifier)
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
Here is what the judges had to say:
4 seems to be this team's lucky number. Despite half the team being rookies, all parts of this team worked together as a whole without being divided. Their simplified Blocks programming manual shows how big of a HEART they have for FTC. The Inspire Award winner is Kardia Robotics!
*WINNING ALLIANCE CAPTAIN
*THINK AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
*CONNECT AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Connect Award is presented to the team that the Judges' feel most connected with their local community, FIRST and the business world. The best team is more than the sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to 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, the team that wins this award is aggressively seeking engineers and other STEM professionals and exploring the opportunities available in the world of science and technology.
*DESIGN AWARD SECOND PLACE
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 in how the design allows us to think of robots in new ways. The design aspect must serve a function - but they should also differentiate the robot in a unique fashion.
*CONTROL AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Control Award celebrates a team that uses sensors and software to increase the robot’s functionality on the field. This award is given to the team that demonstrates innovative thinking in the control system to solve game challenges such as autonomous operation, improving mechanical systems with intelligent control, or using sensors to achieve better results on the field. The control component should work consistently on the field. The team’s engineering notebook must contain details about the implementation of the software, sensors, and mechanical control.
*INSPIRE AWARD WINNER (State Qualifier)
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
Here is what the judges had to say:
4 seems to be this team's lucky number. Despite half the team being rookies, all parts of this team worked together as a whole without being divided. Their simplified Blocks programming manual shows how big of a HEART they have for FTC. The Inspire Award winner is Kardia Robotics!
*WINNING ALLIANCE CAPTAIN
*THINK AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
*CONNECT AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Connect Award is presented to the team that the Judges' feel most connected with their local community, FIRST and the business world. The best team is more than the sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to 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, the team that wins this award is aggressively seeking engineers and other STEM professionals and exploring the opportunities available in the world of science and technology.
*DESIGN AWARD SECOND PLACE
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 in how the design allows us to think of robots in new ways. The design aspect must serve a function - but they should also differentiate the robot in a unique fashion.
*CONTROL AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Control Award celebrates a team that uses sensors and software to increase the robot’s functionality on the field. This award is given to the team that demonstrates innovative thinking in the control system to solve game challenges such as autonomous operation, improving mechanical systems with intelligent control, or using sensors to achieve better results on the field. The control component should work consistently on the field. The team’s engineering notebook must contain details about the implementation of the software, sensors, and mechanical control.
Hat Tricks Qualifying Tournament
*FINALIST ALLIANCE PARTNER
*DESIGN AWARD WINNER
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 in how the design allows us to think of robots in new ways. The design aspect must serve a function - but they should also differentiate the robot in a unique fashion.
Here is what the judges had to say:
This team's intake was sure and fast. Their transfer system was built to last. Appreciation of their design was truly resounding, but it was how it all worked together that set our HEARTS a-pounding. The winner of the Design Award is Kardia Robotics!
*THINK AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
*FINALIST ALLIANCE PARTNER
*DESIGN AWARD WINNER
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 in how the design allows us to think of robots in new ways. The design aspect must serve a function - but they should also differentiate the robot in a unique fashion.
Here is what the judges had to say:
This team's intake was sure and fast. Their transfer system was built to last. Appreciation of their design was truly resounding, but it was how it all worked together that set our HEARTS a-pounding. The winner of the Design Award is Kardia Robotics!
*THINK AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
Lancaster Scrimmage
*FIRST PLACE OVERALL
*FIRST PLACE OVERALL
2018-2019
Pennsylvania State Championship Tournament
*DIVISION SEMI-FINALIST ALLIANCE MEMBER
Lehigh Valley Qualifying Tournament
*WINNING ALLIANCE PARTNER
*INSPIRE AWARD THIRD PLACE WINNER
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
*THINK AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
*CONNECT AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Connect Award is presented to the team that the Judges' feel most connected with their local community, FIRST and the business world. The best team is more than the sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to 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, the team that wins this award is aggressively seeking engineers and other STEM professionals and exploring the opportunities available in the world of science and technology.
South Central PA Qualifying Tournament
*THINK AWARD WINNER
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
Here is what the judges had to say:
This team impressed the judges with the way they documented every beat of their journey. It was not always in the cards, but they had the formula for success. If you put all the Kardashians together, they couldn’t have done this well. The winner of the Think Award is Kardia Robotics!
*INSPIRE AWARD RUNNER-UP
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
*MOTIVATE AWARD RUNNER-UP
The Motivate Award celebrates the team that exemplifies the essence of the FIRST Tech Challenge competition and embraces the culture of FIRST while making a collective effort to make FIRST known throughout their school, and community and sparks others to embrace the culture of FIRST.
*INNOVATE AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Collins Aerospace Innovate Award 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 with regard to design. 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 notebook showed the design of the component(s) and the team's robot, and clearly explains how the team arrived at their solution.
*FINALIST ALLIANCE PARTNER
Thanks to our strong autonomous programming, we were selected to be an alliance partner by 4th place finisher, Team 6045 Ohm Boys. We won our semifinal match and advanced to the finals. Unfortunately, despite a very competitive match, our alliance came up a bit short in the championship round. Overall, however, our robot performed well and made a positive contribution to our alliance.
*DIVISION SEMI-FINALIST ALLIANCE MEMBER
Lehigh Valley Qualifying Tournament
*WINNING ALLIANCE PARTNER
*INSPIRE AWARD THIRD PLACE WINNER
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
*THINK AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
*CONNECT AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Connect Award is presented to the team that the Judges' feel most connected with their local community, FIRST and the business world. The best team is more than the sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to 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, the team that wins this award is aggressively seeking engineers and other STEM professionals and exploring the opportunities available in the world of science and technology.
South Central PA Qualifying Tournament
*THINK AWARD WINNER
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
Here is what the judges had to say:
This team impressed the judges with the way they documented every beat of their journey. It was not always in the cards, but they had the formula for success. If you put all the Kardashians together, they couldn’t have done this well. The winner of the Think Award is Kardia Robotics!
*INSPIRE AWARD RUNNER-UP
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
*MOTIVATE AWARD RUNNER-UP
The Motivate Award celebrates the team that exemplifies the essence of the FIRST Tech Challenge competition and embraces the culture of FIRST while making a collective effort to make FIRST known throughout their school, and community and sparks others to embrace the culture of FIRST.
*INNOVATE AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Collins Aerospace Innovate Award 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 with regard to design. 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 notebook showed the design of the component(s) and the team's robot, and clearly explains how the team arrived at their solution.
*FINALIST ALLIANCE PARTNER
Thanks to our strong autonomous programming, we were selected to be an alliance partner by 4th place finisher, Team 6045 Ohm Boys. We won our semifinal match and advanced to the finals. Unfortunately, despite a very competitive match, our alliance came up a bit short in the championship round. Overall, however, our robot performed well and made a positive contribution to our alliance.
Hat Tricks Qualifying Tournament
*DESIGN AWARD WINNER
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 in how the design allows us to think of robots in new ways. The design aspect must serve a function - but they should also differentiate the robot in a unique fashion.
Here is what the judges had to say:
This team's well designed robot sent the judges' hearts racing. No surgery was required to help this robot perform. This lean and mean machine obviously does Cardio.
Winner: Team 11208 Kardia Robotics
*INSPIRE AWARD THIRD PLACE (State Qualifier)
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
*CONTROL AWARD RUNNER-UP
The Control Award celebrates a team that uses sensors and software to increase the robot’s functionality on the field. This award is given to the team that demonstrates innovative thinking in the control system to solve game challenges such as autonomous operation, improving mechanical systems with intelligent control, or using sensors to achieve better results on the field. The control component should work consistently on the field. The team’s engineering notebook must contain details about the implementation of the software, sensors, and mechanical control.
*CONNECT AWARD RUNNER-UP
The Connect Award is presented to the team that the Judges' feel most connected with their local community, FIRST and the business world. The best team is more than the sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to 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, the team that wins this award is aggressively seeking engineers and other STEM professionals and exploring the opportunities available in the world of science and technology.
*THINK AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
*DESIGN AWARD WINNER
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 in how the design allows us to think of robots in new ways. The design aspect must serve a function - but they should also differentiate the robot in a unique fashion.
Here is what the judges had to say:
This team's well designed robot sent the judges' hearts racing. No surgery was required to help this robot perform. This lean and mean machine obviously does Cardio.
Winner: Team 11208 Kardia Robotics
*INSPIRE AWARD THIRD PLACE (State Qualifier)
The Inspire Award is given 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. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
*CONTROL AWARD RUNNER-UP
The Control Award celebrates a team that uses sensors and software to increase the robot’s functionality on the field. This award is given to the team that demonstrates innovative thinking in the control system to solve game challenges such as autonomous operation, improving mechanical systems with intelligent control, or using sensors to achieve better results on the field. The control component should work consistently on the field. The team’s engineering notebook must contain details about the implementation of the software, sensors, and mechanical control.
*CONNECT AWARD RUNNER-UP
The Connect Award is presented to the team that the Judges' feel most connected with their local community, FIRST and the business world. The best team is more than the sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to 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, the team that wins this award is aggressively seeking engineers and other STEM professionals and exploring the opportunities available in the world of science and technology.
*THINK AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
Oxford Open Scrimmage
*FIRST PLACE OVERALL
*FIRST PLACE OVERALL
2017-2018
Pennsylvania State Championship Tournament
*THINK AWARD THIRD PLACE
This judged award is given to the Team that best reflects the journey the Team took as they experienced the engineering design process during the build season. The Engineering Notebook is the key reference for judges to help identify the most deserving Team. This Team's Engineering Notebook focused on the design and build stages of the Team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
*DEAN'S LIST FINALIST (Emily Schaeffer)
In an effort to recognize the leadership and dedication of FIRST’s most outstanding FIRST Tech Challenge students, the Kamen family sponsors an award for selected top students known as the FIRST Dean’s List.
*THINK AWARD THIRD PLACE
This judged award is given to the Team that best reflects the journey the Team took as they experienced the engineering design process during the build season. The Engineering Notebook is the key reference for judges to help identify the most deserving Team. This Team's Engineering Notebook focused on the design and build stages of the Team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
*DEAN'S LIST FINALIST (Emily Schaeffer)
In an effort to recognize the leadership and dedication of FIRST’s most outstanding FIRST Tech Challenge students, the Kamen family sponsors an award for selected top students known as the FIRST Dean’s List.
Lehigh Valley Qualifying Tournament
*THINK AWARD WINNER
This judged award is given to the Team that best reflects the journey the Team took as they experienced the engineering design process during the build season. The Engineering Notebook is the key reference for judges to help identify the most deserving Team. This Team's Engineering Notebook focused on the design and build stages of the Team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
Here is what the judges had to say:
This team's notebook documents their journey in robot prototyping, construction, and testing. It is clear that they are wired to pay attention to the details. Keeping up with them is a cardio workout! The winner of the Think Award is Kardia Robotics!
*INSPIRE AWARD RUNNER-UP
The Inspire Award is given 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 on and off the playing field. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the Team's Engineering Notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
*CONTROL AWARD RUNNER-UP
The Control Award is given to 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.
*CONNECT AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Connect Award is presented to the Team that the Judges' feel most connected with their local community, FIRST and the business world. The best Team is more than the sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to 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, the Team that wins this Award is aggressively seeking engineers and exploring the opportunities available in the world of engineering, science and technology.
*SEMI-FINAL ALLIANCE CAPTAIN
Winning four of our five matches propelled our team to 3rd place after the regulation matches. As a result, we had the opportunity to serve as an Alliance Captain. Have scouted throughout the day, it was decided that we would rely on our FTC friends, (In)Formal Logic and Smokin' Motors to help our alliance during the semi-final matches. Unfortunately, we did not perform as soundly as previous rounds and ultimately lost the best of 3 semi-final match, 2-1.
*THINK AWARD WINNER
This judged award is given to the Team that best reflects the journey the Team took as they experienced the engineering design process during the build season. The Engineering Notebook is the key reference for judges to help identify the most deserving Team. This Team's Engineering Notebook focused on the design and build stages of the Team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
Here is what the judges had to say:
This team's notebook documents their journey in robot prototyping, construction, and testing. It is clear that they are wired to pay attention to the details. Keeping up with them is a cardio workout! The winner of the Think Award is Kardia Robotics!
*INSPIRE AWARD RUNNER-UP
The Inspire Award is given 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 on and off the playing field. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the Team's Engineering Notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
*CONTROL AWARD RUNNER-UP
The Control Award is given to 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.
*CONNECT AWARD THIRD PLACE
The Connect Award is presented to the Team that the Judges' feel most connected with their local community, FIRST and the business world. The best Team is more than the sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to 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, the Team that wins this Award is aggressively seeking engineers and exploring the opportunities available in the world of engineering, science and technology.
*SEMI-FINAL ALLIANCE CAPTAIN
Winning four of our five matches propelled our team to 3rd place after the regulation matches. As a result, we had the opportunity to serve as an Alliance Captain. Have scouted throughout the day, it was decided that we would rely on our FTC friends, (In)Formal Logic and Smokin' Motors to help our alliance during the semi-final matches. Unfortunately, we did not perform as soundly as previous rounds and ultimately lost the best of 3 semi-final match, 2-1.
Southeastern PA Qualifying Tournament
*SEMI-FINAL ALLIANCE PARTNER
Our robot performed well at the Southeastern PA event held in Oxford. We experienced no major technical glitches throughout the day and ended up winning three of our five matches. We were extremely pleased with the consistency of our autonomous program. Throughout the day, our opponents were quite formidable, causing us to finish with an RP of 616, the fifth highest of the tournament. However, due to our consistently strong performances, we were selected to be alliance partners with Team 7423, Flaming Phoenix & Team 7182, Mechanical Paradox Cubed during the semi-finals. Unfortunately, despite a really strong semi-final performance, our alliance was unable to advanced to the championship round.
*SEMI-FINAL ALLIANCE PARTNER
Our robot performed well at the Southeastern PA event held in Oxford. We experienced no major technical glitches throughout the day and ended up winning three of our five matches. We were extremely pleased with the consistency of our autonomous program. Throughout the day, our opponents were quite formidable, causing us to finish with an RP of 616, the fifth highest of the tournament. However, due to our consistently strong performances, we were selected to be alliance partners with Team 7423, Flaming Phoenix & Team 7182, Mechanical Paradox Cubed during the semi-finals. Unfortunately, despite a really strong semi-final performance, our alliance was unable to advanced to the championship round.
Hat Tricks Qualifying Tournament
*THINK AWARD WINNER
This judged award is given to the Team that best reflects the journey the Team took as they experienced the engineering design process during the build season. The Engineering Notebook is the key reference for judges to help identify the most deserving Team. This Team's Engineering Notebook focused on the design and build stages of the Team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
Here is what the judges had to say:
No matter where this team goes to do their learning, they are always thinking. The documentation in their notebook is detailed from design to prototyping and construction. This team's process gives their brains a cardio workout. The winner of the Think Award is Kardia Robotics!
*INSPIRED AWARD RUNNER-UP (State Qualifier)
The Inspire Award is given 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 on and off the playing field. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the Team's Engineering Notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
*THINK AWARD WINNER
This judged award is given to the Team that best reflects the journey the Team took as they experienced the engineering design process during the build season. The Engineering Notebook is the key reference for judges to help identify the most deserving Team. This Team's Engineering Notebook focused on the design and build stages of the Team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
Here is what the judges had to say:
No matter where this team goes to do their learning, they are always thinking. The documentation in their notebook is detailed from design to prototyping and construction. This team's process gives their brains a cardio workout. The winner of the Think Award is Kardia Robotics!
*INSPIRED AWARD RUNNER-UP (State Qualifier)
The Inspire Award is given 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 on and off the playing field. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the Team's Engineering Notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
2016-2017
South Central Pennsylvania Qualifying Tournament
*JUDGES AWARD WINNER
The Judges Award is given at the discretion of the Judges to a Team they have encountered whose unique efforts, performance or dynamics merit recognition, yet the Team does not fit into any of the existing Award categories.
Here is what the judges had to say:
This rookie team showed they could compete with the best. A successful autonomous program kept them at the top of the pack. We 4 C (foresee) great things in the future for this team. The Rising Star Award goes to team 11208, KARDIA Robotics!
*SEMI-FINAL ALLIANCE CAPTAIN
*JUDGES AWARD WINNER
The Judges Award is given at the discretion of the Judges to a Team they have encountered whose unique efforts, performance or dynamics merit recognition, yet the Team does not fit into any of the existing Award categories.
Here is what the judges had to say:
This rookie team showed they could compete with the best. A successful autonomous program kept them at the top of the pack. We 4 C (foresee) great things in the future for this team. The Rising Star Award goes to team 11208, KARDIA Robotics!
*SEMI-FINAL ALLIANCE CAPTAIN
Hat Tricks Qualifying Tournament
*WINNING ALLIANCE PARTNER
