2025 Season Reefscape

"Celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team's school or organization, and community" 

• 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.

"Celebrates the team that demonstrates industrial design principles, striking a balance between form, function, and aesthetics." 

• A team must be able to describe how their robot is elegant, efficient (simple/executable), and practical.
• The entire machine design, or the detailed process used to develop the design, is worthy of this recognition, and not just a single component.
• The robot distinguishes itself from others by its aesthetic and functional design. 

"Celebrates and recognizes a team which has developed sustainable practices to have a positive environmental impact and achieve long-term continuity." 

• The team has a clear concept or approach to building their team and operates as a cohesive unit.
• The team proactively identified and managed risks, acquiring the assets to effectively deal with adversity as well as unexpected events.
• The team is taking steps to reduce their environmental impact and building environmental sustainability into team activities.
• The team understood the goals of the competition and the mission of FIRST.
• The team must be able to explain:
  • What team sustainability practices are in place such as recruiting and training future team members.
  • How the team keeps students, mentors, and sponsors actively engaged by making decisions and dividing their workload
  • How the team celebrate success and document lessons learned to prevent repeating mistakes
  • How the team assesses its environmental impact and what the team does to mitigate or reduce it.
  • How the team is funded and how the team budgets, including potential revenue from sustainability practices like metal recycling

• Selected in the second round for the 5th alliance 
• Competed in event finals with FRC 1325 Inverse Paradox and 7558 ALT-F4