Award |
Award Criteria |
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Champion's Award
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Based on strong performance BALANCED across all three areas AND
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| Robot Design - Mechanical Design Award | This award recognizes a team that designs and develops a mechanically sound robot that is durable, efficient and highly capable of performing challenge missions. |
| Robot Design - Programming Award | This award recognizes a team that utilizes outstanding programming principles, including clear, concise and reusable code that allows their robot to perform challenge missions autonomously and consistently. |
| Robot Design - Strategy & Innovation Award | This award recognizes a team that uses solid engineering practices and a well-developed strategy to design and build an innovative, high performing robot |
| Project - Research Award | This award recognizes a team that utilizes diverse resources to formulate an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the problem they have identified. |
| Project - Innovative Solution Award | This award recognizes a team’s solution that is exceptionally well-considered and creative, with good potential to solve the problem researched. |
| Project - Presentation Award | This award recognizes a team that effectively communicates the problem they have identified and their proposed solution to both the judges and other potential supporters. |
| Core Values - Inspiration Award | This award celebrates a team that is empowered by their FLL experience and displays extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit. |
| Core Values - Teamwork Award | This award recognizes a team that is able to accomplish more together than they could as individuals through shared goals, strong communication, effective problem solving and excellent time management. |
| Core Values - Gracious Professionalism Award | This award recognizes a team whose members show each other and other teams respect at all times. They recognize that both friendly competition and mutual gain are possible, on and off the playing field |
| Judges' Award | Allows the judges the freedom to recognize remarkable teams that stand out for reasons other than the Core Award categories |
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Robot Performance Award
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This award recognizes the teams with the highest table scores of all 4 table runs. |
| Rookie Team Award | Strongest performance of a rookie team based upon Champion’s Award criteria. |
| Team Spirit Award | This award recognizes the team displaying the greatest spirit and enthusiasm at the event. The Award winning team is selected by all teams attending the state tournament. |
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Ambassador Awards
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The Ambassador Award goes to the team that exhibits and understands FLL core values and the FLL program as well as the team’s ability to be a positive and enthusiastic representative for FLL in Illinois. |
