Regional Awards – Friday

Creativity Award

The Xerox Creativity Award went to Walpole High School from Walpole, Mass. The award celebrates creative design, use of a component, or a creative or unique strategy of play. The team used a center pivot design for their frame.

Dr. Woodie Flowers Award

Jeff Reuter a team mentor for Hollis-Brookline High School in Hollis, N.H., received the Dr. Woodie Flowers Award that honors outstanding contributions to the mission of FIRST.

Engineering Excellence Award

Trinity High School from Manchester, N.H., received the award which recognizes an elegant and advantageous machine feature. The team’s hurdling arm was particularly effective in game play.

Entrepreneurship Award

The Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers Entrepreneurship Award went to Shenendehowa High School from Clifton Park, N.Y. The award honors a team that is unique, enthusiastic and well organized, and one whose well-honed business skills will keep them operating successfully for years to come. This rookie team of freshmen and sophomores assembled a team handbook that included a long-term strategy.

Imagery Award

The award went to South Portland High School in Maine, for their attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration from the machine to the team appearance.

Innovation in Control Award

Milford Area Youth Homeschoolers Enriching Minds from Milford, N.H., received the Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award for an innovative control system or application of control components to provide unique machine functions. The award recognized the team’s powered mechanical system to manipulate the ball.

Rookie Inspiration Award

The award went to the Local Supporters and Safford Robotics Group from Hollis, N.H. The award recognizes outstanding effort as a FIRST team in community outreach and recruiting students to engineering.

Website Award

Manchester High School West from Manchester, N.H., received the award, which recognizes excellence in student-designed, built and managed FIRST team site.

2010 Outstanding Volunteer Award

Luan and Mike Heimlich, a New Hampshire couple who moved to Australia in 2009 and began the FIRST program there – bringing the country’s first FIRST team back for the Granite State Regional.