Regional Chairman's Award
FIRST's most prestigious award, it honors the team judged to have created the best partnership effort among team participants, and to have best exemplified the true meaning of FIRST. The award helps keep the central focus of the FIRST Robotics Competition on the goal of inspiring greater levels of respect and honor for science and technology.

Engineering Inspiration Award
Celebrates outstanding success in advanced respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers within a team's school and community. This is the second-highest award a team can garner.

Woodie Flowers Finalist Award
Presented by Small Parts, Inc. to an outstanding engineer or teacher participating in the competition who best demonstrates teaching excellence in teaching science, math, and creative design.

Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award
Recognizes one individual who has actively supported FIRST programs through leadership and personal committment over an extended period of time, resulting in a sustained impact on the FIRST Regional event.

Regional Champion
Celebrates the team or alliance that wins the Regional competition.

Regional Finalist
Celebrates the team or finalist that makes it to the final match of the Regional competition.

Autodesk Visualization Award
Presented by Autodesk, Inc. and recognizes excellence in student animation that clearly and creatively illustrates the spirit of the FIRST Robotics Competition.

DaimlerChrysler Team Spirit Award
Celebrates Extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit through exceptional partnership and teamwork.

Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award
Celebrates an elegant and advantageous machine feature.

General Motors Industrial Design Award
Celebrates form and function in an efficiently designed machine that effectively achieves the game challenge.

Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship Award
Celebrates outstanding sprtsmanship and gracious professionalism in the heat of competition, both on and off the playing field.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award
Celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit by recognizing a team that, since its inception, has developed the framework for a comprehensive business plan to scope, manage, and achieve team objectives.

Motorola Quality Award
Celebrates machine robustness in concept and fabrication

RadioShack Innovation in Control Award
Celebrates an innovative control system or application of control components to provide unique machine functions.

XEROX Creativity Award
Celebrates creativity in design, use of component, or strategy of play.

Highest Rookie Seed Award
Celebrates the highest-seeded rookie team at the conclusion of the qualifying rounds.

Imagery Award
Celebrates attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration of machine and team appearance.

Industrial Safety Award
Celebrates the team that progresses beyond safety fundamentals by using innovative ways to eliminate or protect against hazards.

Rookie All-Star Award
Celebrates the rookie team exemplifying a young but strong partnership effort, as well as implementing the mission of FIRST to inspire students to learn more about science and technology.

Rookie Inspiration Award
Celebrates a rookie team for outstanding effort as a FIRST team in community outreach and recruiting students to engineering.

Website Award
Rcognizes excellence in student-designed, built, and managed FIRST team websites.

Judges' Awards
During the course of the competition, the judging panel may decide a team's unique efforts, performance, or dynamics merit recognition.