updated 11/8/2022

Description

Celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s school or organization and community.

Guidelines

• Extent and inventiveness of the team’s efforts to recruit students to engineering with particular emphasis on the most recent year’s efforts. Measurable success of those efforts.
• Extent and effectiveness of the team’s community outreach efforts with particular emphasis on the most recent year’s efforts. Measurable success of those efforts.
• A commitment to science and technology education among the team, school, and community.
• Achievement of the FIRST mission and ability to communicate that at the competition and away from it.
• Efforts are ongoing, not strictly concentrated on the build and competition season.

Eligibility

Teams* are eligible for the Engineering Inspiration Award at each Regional or District event. Teams will be restricted to earning this award once at each level of competition. In other words, once a team has earned Engineering Inspiration Award at a Regional or District event, they may not earn it again that season at a later Regional or District Event. At District Championship, only District teams that have won Engineering Inspiration Award at a District event during the current season are eligible.

• District Teams who participate at Regionals or inter-district events are not eligible for the Engineering Inspiration Award at those events.
• *An interview room may be used for this award at the District Championships. Teams should not prepare a presentation for this interview. The purpose of this interview is to replace the traditional pit interview. Please consult your district leadership with any questions.

Events Where It Is Awarded

• District Events
• Regional Competitions
• District Championships**
• FIRST Championship Divisions