Regional Award-
Team 1710 used this award to gain entrance to the Atlanta National for the 07 season. The Regional Award was awarded to the best alliance and regional champions in Chicago. Out of 36 teams 4 teams took home this award including team 1710,1850(sub),111,904.

Underwriters Laboratory Industrial Safety Award
This award is given to the team that best demonstrates safe working conditions in the pit and on the field. Using our creative minds, our team demonstrated safety in unique and creative ways as well as keeping our own team safe. Our team help spread the word by having a sign that had our “Safety motto of the Day” on it. On our first day, the sign read, “Safety starts with me,” the second day, “Safety is the Key,” and our final motto was “If it can’t be done safely, it can’t be done at all.” Sean Estes is our safety captain and was the one responsible for our safe actions. Sean had the help of Hayden as Co-Captain.

Website Design Award-
This award is given to the team with the best looking, most informative website. Our website is completely student designed and built from scratch with the best content and easy navigation. Our award winning website was designed and built by Kyle Rickert with help from James Graff.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award-
This award recognized our team for being a team that demonstrated great entrepreneurial skills. In order for a team to compete for this award, they must create a business plan that demonstrates how a team will be organized and managed. Our team organization and management skills were outstanding. Thanks go to Hayden Maples once again for writing our outstanding business plan.

Safety Star of the Day for March 15, 2007
This award was presented to Hayden Maples for promoting safety at the Midwest Regional. Hayden demonstrated outstanding safety all day by dressing himself with caution tape and carrying a sign that read, “Safety starts with me.”










Judges Award-
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin team 1710 walked away with the Judge’s award. This award was given to use based on our business plan, pit design, integration of our two 21st Century programs (Aerospace and Engineering and Electronic Communications), organization, and for having a strictly student run team. Though it wasn’t going to take us to nationals it gave us the excitement of coming home with a little more pride.


Safety Award-
On day 2 of the Milwaukee Regional our Safety Capitan received the Safety Star of the day. This was achieved by the entire team’s effective safety skills. Through a lot of caution tape and safety signs we made sure everyone in the pit was being safe. This was also a contributing factor in our Judges Award win.