Team 1710 Awards
2009: Atlanta, Georgia (FIRST Championship)
2009: Kansas City, Missouri
Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award: In 2009, Safety Captain Stephani C. and Co-Captain Ally P. put their minds together to develop new creative ideas in an effort to spread safety awareness. We increased our efforts in safety,it paid off with this award! Safety Star of the Day (February 27, 2009): This was awarded to Stephani C. for her strong efforts in safety at the Regional. Her displays of safety, which included Kiewit hard hats and plenty the strategic use of caution tape, certainly did not go unnoticed around the pits.
Woodie Flowers Award: This prestigious award is presented to a mentor who has been an inspiration to a FIRST team. We nominated Mrs. Sue Rippe, who co-founded Team 1710 back in 2005. Her commitment to Team 1710 was exhibited in the many hours she mentors, guides and acts as a role model. Her strong dedication is an inspiration to not only the team, but to fellow coaches and mentors.
Regional Chairman’s Award: The most prestigious award presented at a FIRST Regional Competition, the Chairman’s Award “honors the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the purpose and goals of FIRST.” We Team 1710 took home this illustrious award for our creative outreach to spread the FIRST message, innovative business plan and team structure, and extensive community service, among other high-ranking qualifications.
2008: Denver, Colorado
Chrysler Team Spirit Award: We were awarded our second Team Spirit Award (both in the same year) for our enthusiastic spirit in during the competition. Even in matches we did not perform so well in, we were still on our feet, screaming and yelling cheering on for our drive team as they piloted our robot, Yosefa.
Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award: The team was thrilled to be presented its second Industrial Safety Award at the 2008 Colorado Regional. Safety Captain Stephani Chaffin spent her days in Denver parading the pits with her safety sign, and used lots of caution tape to keep other team safe and sound.
Safety Star of the Day (March 27, 2008): Hayden Maples, the team CEO, received his second Safety Star of the Day award on the Thursday of competition. After using his safety sign to display clever mottos, the safety judges felt Hayden was had exhibited qualities of the the best advocate for safety that day.
2008: Kansas City, Missouri
Chrysler Team Spirit Award: This award recognizes the team with the most spirit and enthusiasm atexhibited during the competition. In the words of the Regional Director, "You’d have to be deaf, dumb, blind, and 600 miles away to not know who this team is." This cleverly sums up how loud and how much spirit we exhibited at the Kansas City Regional.
Website Award: This award is given to the team that has creates the best website at the Regional. The website is judged on many criteria and for the second year in a row Team 1710 has produced an award-winning website.
Autodesk Visualization Award: This award is presented to the team that creates the best animation during build season. Our animation team did a great job and came up with a creative, unique idea.
Safety Star of the Day (March 7, 2008): On the Friday of competition, Stephani C. won this award after walking around the pits with a sign reading "Safety is the Key" and promoting safety to other teams at the Regional.
2007: Chicago, Illinois
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award: This award recognized our team for demonstrating great entrepreneurial skills. In order to compete for this award, a team must have a business plan that describes how it is organized and managed. Due largely in part to our CEO, Hayden M.’s , excellent work on our business plan, we had an outstanding showing of entrepreneurship.
Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award: This award was given to the team that best demonstrates safe working conditions in the pit and on the field. Using our creative minds, our team not only stayed safe during the competition, but also demonstrated this safety in unique and creative ways. We helped spread the safety message by displaying a sign proclaiming our "Safety Motto of the Day.” For example, on our first day, the sign read "Safety starts with me;" the second day it read "Safety is the Key;" and our final motto was "If it can't be done safely,or it can't be done at all." Safety Captain, Sean E., and Co-Captain, Hayden M., were responsible for ensuring safe conditions at all times.
Website Award: This award is presented to the team with the best looking, most informative website. Team 1710’s website is soley student-designed and is intended to contain the best content, yet bebe easy to navigate. Our award-winning site was designed and built by Kyle R. with assistance from James G.
Safety Star of the Day (March 15, 2007): This award was presented to Hayden M. for promoting safety during 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."
Regional Winner: The Regional Award was awarded to the best alliance and regional champions at the Midwest Regional. Out of thirty-six teams, only four took home this award, including the alliance of teams 1710, 111, 904, and 1850 (sub).
2006: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Judges’ Award: This award was awarded to us based upon our business plan, pit design, and organization. The judges also took into consideration our strictly student-run team and the integration of our two 21st Century programs (Aerospace and Engineering and Electronic Communications). This award didn‘t take us to nationals, but it did gave us sense of coming home with pride.Safety Star of the Day (March 17, 2006): Our Safety Captain Nate Michie, through the entire team's effective safety skills, was awarded the Safety Star of the Day. Using several rolls of caution tape and many safety signs, we ensured
