updated 11/8/2022

Description

Celebrates and recognizes a team which has developed a sustainable program in order to define, manage, and achieve the team’s ongoing objectives.

Guidelines

• The team has a clear concept or approach to building their team and operates as a cohesive system.
• They proactively identified and managed risks, acquiring the assets to effectively deal with adversity as well as unexpected events.
• They understood the goals of the competition and the mission of FIRST.
• The team must be able to explain:
  • How the team makes decisions and divides their workload
  • How the team keeps students, mentors, and sponsors actively engaged
  • What team sustainability practices are in place
  • How they recruit and train future team members
  • How they celebrate success and document lessons learned to prevent repeating mistakes
  • How the team is funded and how the team budgets

Eligibility

Teams are eligible to win the Team Sustainability Award at any event in which they participate.

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