ALL judging questions

yay - catagorized by award type

Can you describe your team’s brainstorming process?

Think Award (can sound like innovate, so ask to specify)

How did your team improve your robot throughout the season?

Think Award

Can you tell us an example of a lesson your team learned while working on your robot this season?

Think Award

How did your team track accomplishments or challenges throughout the season?

Think Award

Did your team use a method to measure progress to their goals throughout the season?

Think Award

Did your team employ any analysis in making their design decisions?

Think Award

How does your team define their engineering process?

Think Award

What did your team learn this season?

Think Award

How did your team decide what aspects of their robot needed to be improved?

Think Award

How did your team set your goals and strategies for this season?

Connect Award

Does your team reach out to new STEM professionals?

Connect Award

Have any STEM professionals become a mentor for your team?

Connect Award

Did your team create a learning plan this season?

Connect Award

What skills has your team learned by being a part of the team?

Connect Award

How does your team work with other FIRST teams in your area?

Connect Award

Has your team collaborated with FIRST teams outside of your area online or virtually?

Connect Award

Does your team perform any type of community service or outreach?

Reach Award

Who organizes your team or organization’s outreach or community service activities?

Reach Award

What has resulted from your team’s FIRST outreach activities?

Reach Award

Has your team been able to successfully recruit anyone to participate in FIRST?

Reach Award

Do you consider your team to be an ambassador for FIRST?

Reach Award

How do you market your team?

Reach Award

Has your team received any feedback on your marketing efforts?

Reach Award

How has your team raised the profile of FIRST with your efforts?

Reach Award

Does your team have a sustainability plan?

Sustain Award

How does your team fundraise or raise funds for your activities?

Sustain Award

Does your team have a timeline for this season that aligns with your goals?

Sustain Award

How are responsibilities assigned and tracked over the course of a season?

Sustain Award

Do each of your team members have a specific role or sub-team?

Sustain Award

How do you ensure new or potential team members feel connected and engaged from the start?

Sustain Award

How do you help grow team members into future leaders of the team?

Sustain Award

How does your team balance short-term needs with long-term planning?

Sustain Award

What gets in the way of your team doing its best work, apart from time?

Sustain Award

How does your team plan their season’s efforts?

Sustain Award

Does your team have a plan for maintaining or sustaining finances without relying on a single or few large sources of income?

Sustain Award

How does your team brainstorm ideas?

Innovate Award (can sound like think, so ask to specify)

Walk us through the process your team used to come up with your design.

Innovate Award (can sound like design, so ask to specify)

What were your team’s overall goals and/or strategies for this season?

Innovate Award

Is there an aspect of your robot that you consider unique or creative?

Innovate Award

How did your team evaluate your design to ensure that it met your goals?

Innovate Award (can sound like design, so ask to specify)

What criteria or process did your team use to determine the success of the design?

Innovate Award

Which of your team’s game objectives does your robot achieve?

Innovate Award

How did your team capture what worked and what did not work with the robot?

Innovate Award

Did your team take any risks or unique approaches when building the robot?

Innovate Award

Can you tell us what evolution or iteration your robot went through this season?

Innovate Award

(Pit interviews only) Can you share CAD drawings, sketches, or photos highlighting your design evolution?

Innovate Award

What risks did your team identify with your design?

Innovate Award (can sound like design, so ask to specify)

What sensors and hardware did your team use on your robot?

Control Award

Can you talk about the code used on the robot?

Control Award

How did your team capture their learnings?

Control Award

What criteria did your team use to determine if a component is working?

Control Award

How does your robot know where it is on a field?

Control Award

How does your robot control scoring element acquisition?

Control Award

What enhancements did your team program to assist drivers during Teleop?

Control Award

What were your team’s design goals for the Auto period?

Control Award

What specific game tasks were you trying to improve with your control system?

Control Award

Describe the engineering process used to develop your most complex autonomous routine or control feature.

Control Award

How did your team come up with the overall design of your robot?

Design Award

How did your team balance competing factors in your design?

Design Award

What game or design strategies did your team outline at the beginning of the season?

Design Award

How does your team measure effectiveness in meeting robot performance goals?

Design Award

What tools did your team use to brainstorm or evaluate design elements?

Design Award

What process did your team use to determine if a design element helped meet goals?

Design Award

How did your team document your goals?

Design Award

Did your team look at how components work together when designing your robot?

Design Award

Did you have to make any compromises on your design?

Design Award

How does your team balance functionality, simplicity, and reliability?

Design Award

What specific problem influenced your robot’s current design?

Design Award

What did your team choose to optimize if you could not do everything?

Design Award

Did your solution originate from an existing design or was it novel?

Design Award

How did your team successfully overcome challenges this season?

Judges’ Choice Award

How would your team describe your season and why?

Judges’ Choice Award

Tell us your story—how is your team making a difference through FIRST?

Judges’ Choice Award (can sound like reach)

What has it meant to you to be on a FIRST team?

Judges’ Choice Award

In what ways is your team unique?

Judges’ Choice Award

Judges’ Choice Award

What is one thing we did not ask that you want the judges to know?

Judges’ Choice Award

What single achievement best represents your team’s unique identity?

Judges’ Choice Award

Tell us about a significant non-robotics challenge your team faced this season.

Judges’ Choice Award

Are there individuals or subgroups who have a large impact but nontraditional roles?

Judges’ Choice Award

Describe a major failure or setback and how it led to a positive outcome.

Judges’ Choice Award

How did knowledge transfer enable a new member to own a subsystem?

Judges’ Choice Award

How does your team ensure unseen essential tasks are valued and documented?

Judges’ Choice Award

How did your team come together?

Judges’ Choice Award