About FTC Awards 

The seven FIRST Tech Challenge judged awards fall into two broad categories:

 

Machine, Creativity, and Innovation (MCI)       |       Team Attributes (TA)

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MCI awards recognize the technical accomplishments of teams in the planning, design, construction, operation, and control of their robots. The Design Award, Innovate Award, and the Control Award are all MCI Awards.

 

TA awards recognize teams who have developed strong partnerships with their community. This includes recruiting members, fund-raising, and the teams’ outreach efforts to spread FIRST’s message about the benefits that can come from the study of math, science, and technology. The Connect Award, and the Motivate Award are both TA awards.

 

The Think Award falls into a special category, as it recognizes teams who provide excellent documentation in the form of their engineering portfolio.

 

The Inspire Award falls into a special category, as it recognizes teams who excel in MCI, TA, and Think Award accomplishments. Teams must be nominated by the judges in all three categories to be considered for the Inspire Award. !!!!

Read more about the awards and advancement.

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