updated 11/8/2022

Description

Celebrates a rookie team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school, as well as in their community.

As announced in this FIRST Robotics Competition Blog, both 2021 and 2022 Rookies are eligible for Rookie Awards in 2022.

As there are often far fewer rookie teams than veteran teams present at events, Judges have the option of not presenting this award if they feel no rookie team competing meets the criteria.

Guidelines

• Effectiveness and inventiveness of the team’s efforts to recruit students to engineering.
• Extent and effectiveness of the team’s community outreach efforts.
• A commitment to science and technology education among the team.
• Ability to communicate understanding of the FIRST mission at the competition and away from it.

Events Where It Is Awarded

• District Events
• Regional Competitions
• District Championship Divisions (for those Districts with multiple Divisions at their District Championships)
• District Championships (for those Districts with single Divisions at their District Championships)
• FIRST Championship Divisions