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Pennsylvania FTC Championship
Saturday February 29, 2020 and Sunday March 1, 2020
iCal - Saturday
iCal - Sunday
Red Lion Area Senior High School
200 Horace Mann Ave
Red Lion, PA 17356
Registration is by invitation only
Saturday: Snack items available for purchase.
Sunday: Light breakfast, lunch, and snack items available for purchase.
11:00 AM Volunteer Check-in
1:00 PM Teams Arrive and Check-in
1:00 PM Pits Open
2:00 PM Judging Interviews Begin (see schedule)
2:00 PM Robot and Field Inspections Begin (see schedule)
5:30 PM Judging and Inspection End
6:00 PM Pits Close
7:00 AM Volunteer Check-in
7:30 AM Pits Open
8:15 AM Drivers Meeting On Competition Field
8:30 AM Opening Ceremonies
9:00 AM Qualification Matches Begin
1:00 PM Alliance Selection
1:30 PM Division Semi-Finals
2:30 PM Division Finals
3:30 PM Event Finals
4:30 PM Awards
5:30 PM Event Complete
Allegheny Division
Count # Team Name School / Organization Location
Pocono Division
Championship Winning Alliance
1st selected:
2nd selected:
Finalist Alliance
Match Results Details for Finals Matches
Allegheny Winning Alliance
Allegheny Finalist Alliance
Team Rankings from the Qualifying Matches
Match Results Details for Allegheny Matches
Pocono Winning Alliance
Pocono Finalist Alliance
Match Results Details for Pocono Matches
Judged Awards
Judges Award
The Judges Award is given at the discretion of the Judges to a Team they have encountered whose unique efforts, performance or dynamics merit recognition, yet the Team does not fit into any of the existing Award categories.
Here is what the judges had to say:
Winner: Team
Compass Award
The Compass Award recognizes an adult coach or mentor who provided outstanding guidance and support for a FIRST Tech Challenge team throughout the year. The winner of the Compass Award is determined from candidates nominated by student team members, via a 40-60 second video, highlighting how their mentor has helped them become an outstanding team and has truly demonstrated what it means to be a Gracious Professional.
Promote Award
The Promote Award is given to the Team that is most successful in creating a compelling video message for the public designed to change our culture and celebrate science, technology, engineering and math.The video submission was evaluated by the Judges to determine the winner of this award. Teams must present a thoughtful and high-quality video which appeals to the general public and best exhibits this year's topic.
2nd Place: Team 3rd Place: Team
Control Award
The Control Award is given to the team that demonstrates innovative thinking in the control system to solve Game challenges such as Autonomous Operation, enhancing mechanical systems with intelligent control, or using sensors to achieve better results on the field.
Motivate Award
This award celebrates the team that exemplifies the essence of the FIRST Tech Challenge competition and embraces the culture of FIRST while making a collective effort to make FIRST known throughout their school, and community and sparks others to embrace the culture of FIRST.
The Design Award expands on this year's challenge, inspiring teams to incorporate industrial design into their robots. These elements can be shown in the simplicity of the design as it applies to the tasks, the look and feel of the robot in how the design allows us to think of robots in new ways. The design aspect must serve a function - but they should also differentiate the robot in a unique fashion.
Collins Aerospace Innovate Award
The Collins Aerospace Innovate Award celebrates a team that has the ingenuity and inventiveness to make their designs come to life. This award is given to the team that the Judges feel has the most innovative and creative robot design solution to the FIRST Tech Challenge game. Elements of this award include elegant design, robustness and 'out of the box' thinking with regard to design. This award may address the design of the whole robot or some sub-assembly component of the robot. The creative component needs to work consistently, but a robot does not have to work all of the time during matches to be considered for this award. The team's engineering notebook showed the design of the component(s) and the team's robot, and clearly explains how the team arrived at their solution.
Connect Award
The Connect Award is presented to the team that the Judges' feel most connected with their local community, FIRST and the business world. The best team is more than the sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to their success. The recipient of this award is recognized for helping the community understand FIRST, the FIRST Tech Challenge, and the team itself. In addition, the team that wins this award is aggressively seeking engineers and other STEM professionals and exploring the opportunities available in the world of science and technology.
Think Award
The Think Award is given to the team that the Judges feel best reflects the journey of the engineering design process. The engineering notebook is the key reference for Judges to help them identify the most deserving team. This team's engineering notebook focused on the design and build stages of the team's robot and exemplified their journey as a team and engineers.
Inspire Award
The Inspire Award is given to the Team that the Judges felt truly embodied the 'challenge' of the FIRST Tech Challenge program. The Team that receives this award is a strong ambassador for FIRST programs and works to promote FIRST and make it loud in their community. The Team that receives this Award has performed well in all Judging categories and was chosen by the Judges as a model FIRST Tech Challenge team both on and off the playing field. The Judges used Match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, the team's engineering notebook, and performance on the playing field in determining the winner.
Advancing to the FIRST Championship Tournament
The following teams earned their way to the FIRST Championship in Detroit, Michigan:
Rank Team # Team Name Award
Dean's List Award
In an effort to recognize the leadership and dedication of the most outstanding FIRST Tech Challenge students, the Kamen family sponsors an Award for selected top students known as the FIRST Dean's List. Since its introduction in 2010, the FIRST Dean's List Award has attracted the attention of prestigious colleges and universities who desire to recruit FIRST Dean's List students.
Criteria for selection of the FIRST Dean's List shall include, but not be limited to a student's:
Demonstrated leadership and commitment to the ideals of FIRST;
Interest in and passion for a long term commitment to FIRST and its ideals;
Overall individual contribution to their team;
Technical expertise and passion;
Entrepreneurship and creativity;
Ability to motivate and lead fellow team members; and
Ability to effectively increase awareness of FIRST in their school and community.
Congratulations to the Pennsylvania Dean's List Finalists
Student Team # Team Name Location