Our Accolades
A Decorated FTC Team
We are a rather decorated FTC team, given how new the team is, having won awards at nearly every Qualifying and Regional event every year for our robot designs or our outreach programs into less fortunate communities.
Inspire Award
The Insprire Award is the most prestigious award that can be received in FIRST events, ranking higher than even the first place team in the competition. This award is only granted to teams who have a well-organized notebook, detailing their design process and everything that happens on the team, a good outreach program, spreading FIRST and robotics into other communities locally or internationally, and being competitive on the playing field.
Regional of 2014 Season
At the UTA Regional event, we were awarded the Inspire Award for our innovative use of omniwheels set up in a holonomic drive train, allowing for omnidirectional movement at any point in our driving, as well as our outreach program to the Grapevine Outreach Center where we demonstrated some simple Lego Mindstorm robots and let the children build and program their own robots.
Qualifier of 2014 Season
At the Central Texas College Qualifying event, we won the Inspire award for our holonomic, omnidirectional wheelbase, extremeley competitive robot on the course, well-kept and detailed engineering notebook, and our first outreach to the Grapevine Outreach Center, giving underprivilidged children a chance to get into robotics.
Game Award
This is the second most presitious award, following only the Inspire Award in rank. This is awarded to the teams who perform the best in the game. This is awarded only to the winning alliance's teams; however, due to how rankings work, teams lower down may move on due to their performance in the game; however, they would not receive this award.
Qualifier of 2016 Season
At the Emerald League Championship event, we placed first overall and were given the opportunity to choose our alliance partner for the first time in our history. We chose the team that filled in our holes the best (while we could climb and score the side climbers, they could score cubes during the regular game) which also happened to be the second place team. Together, we easily beat all of our opponents in the semifinals and finals matches, scoring 234 points in our first match together, even with technical difficulties with our Alliance's robot.
Qualifier of 2014 Season
At the Central Texas College qualifying event, we won the Game Award by placing second overall as a member of the winning alliance, and losing only one of our matches, which was due to a wireless disconnection from interference which was not an uncommon event during this tournament.
Rockwell-Collins Innovate Award
This is the award given to the team who has demonstrated the most innovation in either design or programming. To win this, a team must display innovation with their design or programming and demonstrate the value of the innovation to the judges.
Qualifier of 2016 Season
At the Emerald League Championship event, we were awarded the Innovate Award due to the Configuration App written by Austin Donovan which could configure the autonomous and teleop programs without need to modify the code in the program at all. This is extremely useful in back-to-back matches when time is an issue and the value of this was seen by the judges.
Connect Award
This is the award given to the team who has the best outreach program into their local communinity or beyond. To win this, a team must spread FIRST and robotics to a community, local, international, or anything in-between, successfully.
Regional of 2015 Season
At the UTA Regional event, we won the Connect Award for our outreach program to a Mexican Orphanage and starting an FLL team with contacts for their local league leader, preparing them to start in the 2016 season.
Qualifier of 2015 Season
At the Ben Barber Tech Center qualifying event, we were awarded the Connect Award for our planned outreach program to help set up an FLL team for the following year and introduce them to the world of robotics.