62
How many Agents are currently on our team?
To inspire students to be STEM leaders through mentoring and innovation.
What is the mission of the FEDS?
Celebrates the team that has demonstrated consistent, reliable, high-performance robot operation during autonomously managed actions. (5 RPs)
What is the Autonomous Award?
This award recognizes the team who has a comprehensive business plan and is able to discuss the business plan content in a clear and concise way, highlighting team sustainability in the future. (5 RPs)
What is the Entrepreneurship Award?
These must be followed by all team members throughout competition in order for our team to be considered for ANY awards.
What are FIRST safety rules?
100%
What percentage of FEDS graduate high school and go on to higher education?
A way of operating that values high quality work, sensitivity to others, kindness, empathy, and competitiveness.
What is gracious professionalism?
This award recognizes creativity that enhances strategy of play and was intentionally designed and not discovered. A team must be able to competently describe the creative/unique feature(s) and can trace its conception and design. (5 RPs)
What is the Creativity Award?
Celebrates outstanding demonstration of mutual respect, kindness, and working together both on and off the playing field. Teams are able to speak to collaboration with other FRC teams during the pre-season, highlighting mutual benefits to doing so. (5 RPs)
What is the Gracious Professionalism Award?
Wearing shorts and hoodie with strings, without safety glasses or a mask over mouth/nose to an FRC competition.
What are FRC safety violations?
19
How many of our current mentor roster are alumni of the team?
This quality is at the root of innovation and involves displaying unqualified kindness and respect in the face of fierce competition.
What is coopertition?
This award celebrates the team that demonstrates a professional approach to the design process and is able to describe the engineering process they went through and can trace elements of the designs from conception. (5 RPs)
What is the Excellence in Engineering Award?
Celebrates extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit through exceptional partnership and teamwork furthering the objectives of FIRST. Spirit is consistent both throughout the team and also throughout the contest in attitude, appearance, originality, and depth. The team is unified, supportive, and cheers on other teams. (5 RPs)
What is the Team Spirit Award?
100%
What percentage of our Agents are First Aid certified and have read the FRC Safety Manual?
15
How many girls were engaged in the STEM CAD-ettes in its first year?
How has our team culture been described by students in the past?
This award celebrates the team that demonstrates industrial design principles, striking a balance between form, function, and aesthetics. (5 RPs)
What is the Industrial Design Award?
Celebrates machine robustness in concept and fabrication. Team must be able to describe their quality plan i.e. how their design ensures robustness throughout the entire competition. Building the machine contributes to the team’s success. (5 RPs)
What is the Quality Award?
First Aid kit, AED equipment, and a fire extinguisher.
What is safety equipment kept in our pit at competitions?
77
How many total teams did the FEDS start since 2019?
Efforts to level the playing field through FIRST, reflecting an understanding the broader societal & historical factors affecting disproportionate access to STEM education.
What is DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)?
Celebrates an innovative control system or application of control components to provide unique machine functions that the team can effectively describe from design to deployment. (5 RPs)
This award is considered by some as "Chairman's-Light". It recognizes a team that demonstrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s school or organization and community. (8 RPs)
What is the Engineering Inspiration Award?
Walking at all times, using the buddy system, wearing required PPE in the pit/field areas, careful handling of batteries in accordance with training, and limiting the number of FEDS in our pit.
What are examples of following the FRC safety guidelines?