2023 St. Louis Regional (St. Louis, MO)

Team Sustainability Award

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


2023 Wisconsin Regional (Milwaukee, WI)

Volunteer of the Year (Brian Farrell)

Pre­sented to an in­di­vid­ual, busi­ness, or or­ga­ni­za­tion that con­sis­tently ex­cels in their ef­forts, with proven re­sults in the ar­eas of im­pact, lead­er­ship, per­sonal com­mit­ment, com­mu­nity, and his­tor­i­cal con­tri­bu­tions.​


2023 Seven Rivers Regional (La Crosse, WI)

FIRST Dean’s List Finalist Award (Grant Nicholson)

Cel­e­brates out­stand­ing stu­dent lead­ers whose pas­sion for and ef­fec­tive­ness at at­tain­ing FIRST ideals is ex­em­plary.

Innovation in Control Award

Spon­sored by Rock­well Au­toma­tion, this award cel­e­brates an in­no­v­a­tive con­trol sys­tem or ap­pli­ca­tion of con­trol com­po­nents – elec­tri­cal, me­chan­i­cal, or soft­ware – to pro­vide unique ma­chine func­tions.


2022 Midwest Regional (Chicago, IL)

Woodie Flowers Finalist Award (Brian Farrell)

This award rec­og­nizes an in­di­vid­ual who has done an out­stand­ing job of mo­ti­va­tion through com­mu­ni­ca­tion while also chal­leng­ing the stu­dents to be clear and suc­cinct in their com­mu­ni­ca­tions


2022 Wisconsin Regional (Milwaukee, WI)

Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen

This award cel­e­brates at­trac­tive­ness in en­gi­neer­ing and out­stand­ing vi­sual aes­thetic in­te­gra­tion of ma­chine and team ap­pear­ance.


2019 Midwest Regional (Chicago, IL)

Regional Chairman’s Award

The FIRST Im­pact Award (for­merly the Chair­man’s Award) is the most pres­ti­gious award at FIRST. It hon­ors the team that best rep­re­sents a model for other teams to em­u­late and best em­bod­ies the mis­sion of FIRST. It was cre­ated to keep the cen­tral fo­cus of FIRST Ro­bot­ics Com­pe­ti­tion on the ul­ti­mate goal of trans­form­ing the cul­ture in ways that will in­spire greater lev­els of re­spect and honor for sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy, as well as en­cour­ag­ing more of to­day’s youth to be­come sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy lead­ers.

Regional Finalists

Cel­e­brates the Al­liance that makes it to the fi­nal match of the com­pe­ti­tion.


2018 Seven Rivers Regional (La Crosse, WI)

Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories

Spon­sored by Un­der­writ­ers Lab­o­ra­to­ries, this award cel­e­brates the team’s in­no­va­tions in safety pro­ce­dures.


2017 Seven Rivers Regional (La Crosse, WI)

Innovation in Control
Spon­sored by Rock­well Au­toma­tion, this award cel­e­brates an in­no­v­a­tive con­trol sys­tem or ap­pli­ca­tion of con­trol com­po­nents – elec­tri­cal, me­chan­i­cal, or soft­ware – to pro­vide unique ma­chine func­tions.
Regional Winner
This award cel­e­brates the team or al­liance that wins the com­pe­ti­tion.


2017 Wisconsin Regional (Milwaukee, WI)

Innovation in Control
Spon­sored by Rock­well Au­toma­tion, this award cel­e­brates an in­no­v­a­tive con­trol sys­tem or ap­pli­ca­tion of con­trol com­po­nents – elec­tri­cal, me­chan­i­cal, or soft­ware – to pro­vide unique ma­chine func­tions.


2016 Midwest Regional (Chicago, IL)

Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories
Spon­sored by Un­der­writ­ers Lab­o­ra­to­ries, this award cel­e­brates the team’s in­no­va­tions in safety pro­ce­dures.


2016 Wisconsin Regional (Milwaukee, WI)

Judge’s Award
Dur­ing the course of the com­pe­ti­tion, the judg­ing panel may de­cide a team’s unique ef­forts, per­for­mance, or dy­nam­ics merit recog­ni­tion.


2015 FIRST Championship (St. Louis, MO)

Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories
Cel­e­brates the team that pro­gresses be­yond safety fun­da­men­tals by us­ing in­no­v­a­tive ways to elim­i­nate or pro­tect against haz­ards.


2015 Midwest Regional (Chicago, IL)

Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories
Spon­sored by Un­der­writ­ers Lab­o­ra­to­ries, this award cel­e­brates the team’s in­no­va­tions in safety pro­ce­dures.
Innovation in Control
Spon­sored by Rock­well Au­toma­tion, this award cel­e­brates an in­no­v­a­tive con­trol sys­tem or ap­pli­ca­tion of con­trol com­po­nents – elec­tri­cal, me­chan­i­cal, or soft­ware – to pro­vide unique ma­chine func­tions.
Regional Winner
This award cel­e­brates the team or al­liance that wins the com­pe­ti­tion.


2015 Wisconsin Regional (Milwaukee, WI)

Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories
Spon­sored by Un­der­writ­ers Lab­o­ra­to­ries, this award cel­e­brates the team’s in­no­va­tions in safety pro­ce­dures.
Regional Winner
This award cel­e­brates the team or al­liance that wins the com­pe­ti­tion.


2014 Midwest Regional (Chicago, IL)

Judge’s Award
Dur­ing the course of the com­pe­ti­tion, the judg­ing panel may de­cide a team’s unique ef­forts, per­for­mance, or dy­nam­ics merit recog­ni­tion.


2013 Lake Superior Regional (Duluth, MN)

Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories                                                                  Spon­sored by Un­der­writ­ers Lab­o­ra­to­ries, this award cel­e­brates the team’s in­no­va­tions in safety pro­ce­dures.
Regional Winner
This award cel­e­brates the team or al­liance that wins the com­pe­ti­tion.


2013 Wisconsin Regional (Milwaukee, WI)

FIRST Dean’s List Finalist (Haley Bates-Tarasewicz)                                                                                            Cel­e­brates out­stand­ing stu­dent lead­ers whose pas­sion for and ef­fec­tive­ness at at­tain­ing FIRST ideals is ex­em­plary.
Judge’s Award
Dur­ing the course of the com­pe­ti­tion, the judg­ing panel may de­cide a team’s unique ef­forts, per­for­mance, or dy­nam­ics merit recog­ni­tion.


2012 FIRST Championship (St. Louis, MO)

Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories
Spon­sored by Un­der­writ­ers Lab­o­ra­to­ries, this award cel­e­brates the team’s in­no­va­tions in safety pro­ce­dures.


2012 Lake Superior Regional (Duluth, MN)

Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories
Spon­sored by Un­der­writ­ers Lab­o­ra­to­ries, this award cel­e­brates the team’s in­no­va­tions in safety pro­ce­dures.


2012 Wisconsin Regional (Milwaukee, WI)

Gracious Professionalism™ Award sponsored by Johnson & Johnson
The Gra­cious Pro­fes­sion­al­ism™ Award cel­e­brates out­stand­ing sports­man­ship and con­tin­u­ous gra­cious pro­fes­sion­al­ism in the heat of com­pe­ti­tion, both on and off the play­ing field.


2011 10,000 Lakes Regional (Minneapolis, MN)

Innovation in Control sponsored by Rockwell Automation
Spon­sored by Rock­well Au­toma­tion, this award cel­e­brates the team with the most in­no­v­a­tive con­trol sys­tem.
Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories
Spon­sored by Un­der­writ­ers Lab­o­ra­to­ries, this award cel­e­brates the team’s in­no­va­tions in safety pro­ce­dures.


2011 Wisconsin Regional (Milwaukee, WI)

Website Award
This award cel­e­brates the team with the best web­site. We are hon­ored to re­ceive this award out of the 50 teams that were reg­is­tered for the Wis­con­sin Re­gional. Win­ning the Best Web­site Award for the Re­gional qual­i­fies us to com­pete for the Cham­pi­onship Best Web­site award at St. Louis.


2010 10,000 Lakes Regional (Minneapolis, MN)

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award
Cel­e­brates the en­tre­pre­neur­ial spirit by rec­og­niz­ing a team that, since in­cep­tion, has de­vel­oped the frame­work for a com­pre­hen­sive busi­ness plan to scope, man­age, and achieve team ob­jec­tives.
Regional Winner
This award cel­e­brates the team or al­liance that wins the com­pe­ti­tion.


2010 Wisconsin Regional (Milwaukee, WI)

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award
Cel­e­brates the en­tre­pre­neur­ial spirit by rec­og­niz­ing a team that, since in­cep­tion, has de­vel­oped the frame­work for a com­pre­hen­sive busi­ness plan to scope, man­age, and achieve team ob­jec­tives.
Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award
Cel­e­brates the team that pro­gresses be­yond safety fun­da­men­tals by us­ing in­no­v­a­tive ways to elim­i­nate or pro­tect against haz­ards.


2009 10,000 Lakes Regional (Minneapolis, MN)

Autodesk Visualization Award
This award rec­og­nizes ex­cel­lence in stu­dent an­i­ma­tion.
Motorola Quality Award
Cel­e­brates ma­chine ro­bust­ness in con­cept and fab­ri­ca­tion.
Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award
Cel­e­brates the team that pro­gresses be­yond safety fun­da­men­tals by us­ing in­no­v­a­tive ways to elim­i­nate or pro­tect against haz­ards.


2009 Wisconsin Regional (Milwaukee, WI)

Motorola Quality Award
Cel­e­brates ma­chine ro­bust­ness in con­cept and fab­ri­ca­tion.
Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award
Cel­e­brates the team that pro­gresses be­yond safety fun­da­men­tals by us­ing in­no­v­a­tive ways to elim­i­nate or pro­tect against haz­ards.


2008 Championship (Atlanta, GA)

Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award
Cel­e­brates the team that pro­gresses be­yond safety fun­da­men­tals by us­ing in­no­v­a­tive ways to elim­i­nate or pro­tect against haz­ards.


2008 Wisconsin Regional (Milwaukee, WI)

Wisconsin Regional Champions
This award cel­e­brates the team or al­liance that wins the com­pe­ti­tion.

Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award
Cel­e­brates the team that pro­gresses be­yond safety fun­da­men­tals by us­ing in­no­v­a­tive ways to elim­i­nate or pro­tect against haz­ards.


2008 St. Louis Regional (St. Louis, MO)

Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award
Cel­e­brates the team that pro­gresses be­yond safety fun­da­men­tals by us­ing in­no­v­a­tive ways to elim­i­nate or pro­tect against haz­ards.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award
Cel­e­brates the en­tre­pre­neur­ial spirit by rec­og­niz­ing a team that, since in­cep­tion, has de­vel­oped the frame­work for a com­pre­hen­sive busi­ness plan to scope, man­age, and achieve team ob­jec­tives.
Website Award
The Web­site Award rec­og­nizes ex­cel­lence in stu­dent-de­signed, built, and man­aged FIRST team web­sites.


2007 Wisconsin Regional (Milwaukee,WI)

Rookie All-Star Award
This award cel­e­brates the rookie team ex­em­pli­fy­ing a young but strong part­ner­ship ef­fort, as well as im­ple­ment­ing the mis­sion of FIRST to in­spire stu­dents to learn more about sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy.

Website Excellence Award