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Award Winners and Scholarship Recipients Announced at FIRST Robotics Competition Championship in Florida
ORLANDO, Fla., April 29,2002 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 20,000
high school students, teachers, parents and fans converged on
Epcot(R) this weekend for the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition
of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition Championship.
Each of the 291 teams from the United States, Canada, Brazil
and Puerto Rico traveled to Florida with their original robots
to compete in "Zone Zeal," this year's competition
game.
The Championship culminated Saturday, which Florida's House of
Representatives recently designated as "FIRST Day"
to congratulate all participants, mentors and sponsors in the
FIRST community. At the awards ceremony, teams were honored for
design excellence, competitive play, sportsmanship and high-impact
partnerships between schools, businesses and communities. In
addition, FIRST awarded $2 million in scholarships from leading
universities, colleges and companies to individual FIRST students.
FIRST was created to instill an appreciation of science and technology
in young people, their schools and their communities. High school
students and technical mentors work as a team to design and build
a robot that solves a problem using a "kit of parts"
and a standard set of rules. This year, teams competed with their
robots in "Zone Zeal," where robots collected soccer
balls, put them into goals, then moved the goals into specified
zones in order to earn points -- all in less than two minutes.
This year was the largest FIRST Championship in the organization's
history. The following honors were awarded on Saturday evening:
* The Championship Chairman's Award, FIRST's most prestigious
award, recognized the team that built significant and lasting
partnerships through active mentoring by students, professional
team members and sponsors
- #175 Buzz Robotics from Enrico Fermi High School, Windsor Locks,
Conn.
* The Founder's Award is presented each year by FIRST Founder
Dean Kamen to one organization or individual for exceptional
service in advancing the ideals and mission of FIRST
- John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
* The Woodie Flowers Award is presented by SMALL PARTS, Inc.
to an outstanding engineer or teacher participating in the robotics
competition who best demonstrates excellence in teaching science,
math and creative design
- David Verbrugge, Engineer with team #67 The HOT Team from Huron
Valley Schools, Milford, Mich.
* The Championship Winning Alliance is made up of one seeded
team who selected two other teams to compete with
- #173 R.A.G.E. from East Hartford High School, Rockville High
School and Coventry High School, East Hartford, Conn.
- #71 Team Hammond from School City of Hammond, Hammond, Ind.
- #66 The Penguins from Willow Run High School, Ypsilanti, Mich.
* Championship Finalists
- #311 Red Jammers from East Islip High School, Islip Terrace,
N.Y.
- #308 The "Monsters" from Walled Lake High Schools,
Farmington Hills, Mich.
- #180 S.P.A.M. from South Fork High School, Stuart, Fla.
* General Motors Industrial Design Award -- #60 Bionic Bulldogs
from Kingman High School, Kingman, Ariz.
* Motorola Quality Award -- #121 Islanders from Middletown High
School, Middletown, R.I.
* Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology -- #357 Royal Assault
from Upper Darby High School, Drexel Hill, Pa.
* Judges Award -- #822 Stags from Mackenzie High School and Henry
Ford High School, Detroit, Mich.
* Judges Award -- #190 Gompei and the H.E.R.D. from Massachusetts
Academy of Math and Science, Worcester, Mass.
* Rookie All Star -- #818 Genesis '02 from Warren Consolidated
Schools, Warren, Mich.
* Rookie All Star -- #832 Team Chiver from Roswell High School,
Roswell, Ga.
* Daimler Chrysler Team Spirit -- #365 Miracle Workerz from MOE
Robotics Group, Wilmington, Del.
* Engineering Inspiration -- #120 Scarabian Knights from East
Technical High School, Cleveland, Ohio
* Imagery -- #203 One TUFF Team from Camden County Technical
School, Sicklerville, N.J.
* Leadership -- #233 The Space Coast Team from Rockledge High
School and Cocoa Beach High School, Rockledge/Cocoa Beach, Fla.
* Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship -- #118 Robonauts from
Clear Brook, Clear Creek and Clear Lake High Schools, League
City, Texas
* Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship -- #288
The ROBODawgs from Grandville High School, Grandville, Mich.
* Xerox Creativity -- #176 Aces High from Windsor Locks High
School and Suffield High School, Windsor Locks, Conn.
* Grand Prize Winner of the Autodesk Inventor Award 2002 -- #111
Wildstangs, Rolling Meadows High School and Wheeling High School,
Schaumburg, Ill.
* AutoDesk Inventor Award Honorable Mention
- #610 The Coyotes from Crescent School, Toronto
- #488 Team XBOT from Franklin High School, Redmond, Wash.
* Grand Prize Winner of the Autodesk Award for Visualization
2002 -- #114
Eagle Strike from Los Altos High School, Los Altos, Calif.
* Autodesk Rising Star Rookie Team -- #849 The Wolf Pack from
Unionville High School in Markham, Ontario
* Autodesk Honorable Mention Award for Compelling Creativity
-- #64 The Gila Monsters from Highland High School, Gilbert,
Ariz.
* Autodesk Honorable Mention Award for Content Communication
-- #166 Blueprints from Merrimack High School, Merrimack, N.H.
* Autodesk Honorable Mention Award for Technical Excellence --
#45 TechnoKats from Kokomo High School, Kokomo, Ind.
For a complete listing of match results and scholarship winners,
please visit the FIRST website at http://www.usfirst.org.
ABOUT FIRST
Accomplished inventor Dean Kamen founded FIRST (For Inspiration
and Recognition of Science and Technology) in 1989 to inspire
an appreciation of science and technology in young people, their
schools and their communities. Based in Manchester, N.H., FIRST
designs accessible, innovative programs to build self-confidence,
knowledge and life skills while motivating young people to pursue
opportunities in science, technology and engineering. With the
support of many of the world's most well-known companies, the
non-profit organization hosts the FIRST Robotics Competition
for high school students and the FIRST LEGO(TM) League for children
9-14 years old.
SOURCE: FIRST
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