Safety Star of the Day (March 27, 2010)

We were very proud to win the safety star of the day. Safety Captain Ali P. did an amazing job overseeing our safety in the pits, judges were very impressed and said we narrowly missed the winning the Safety Award. We worked at building on the strong safety program we developed previous years by distributing safety quizzes in the pits, handing out buttons and being vigilant in our every day practices.

Autodesk Visualization Award: (March 26,2010)

This award is given to the team with the best animation. We won this award in 2008 at the KC Regional and were very proud to repeat this at the Oklahoma Regional. Our animation was called R.A.W.R an acronym for Remote Autonomous Waste Retriever. Our challenge was to make an animation about changing our world. Space Debris has been a growing issue so we designed an autonomous machine to clean up space.

Chrysler Team Spirit Award: (March 27,2010)

This was the third time we won the Chrysler Team Spirit Award, the first two times were in 2008 at both the KC Regional and then again at the Denver Regional. This award is given to the team who 'celebrates with enthusiasm and spirit through exceptional partnership in teamwork'. Both on and off the playing field our team exudes a lot of spirit. Starting off the day with our speaker box and dancing before the competition to our exuberant cheering during the matches.

Imagery Award (in honor of Jack Kamen):

The Imagery Award is awarded to teams who demonstrate a 'visual aesthetic integration of attractiveness in machine and team appearance.' In 2010 we revamped out teams image to mirror Top Gun with Navy Blue flight suits, caps, and mirrored sunglasses. We redesigned our team logo to match the Top Gun wings. We wove this theme throughout everything out team did including our chairman's submission.

Safety Star of the Day (April 17, 2009):

As we headed to Championship in Atlanta, we decided that as strong as our safety plan was at Kansas City, we would need to step it up even more for the International Competition, where teams from around the world would be showing off their safety strategies. We created a special "Safety Handbook" and "Safety Sacks," which we distributed to our fellow teams. We had over 100 safety tokens by the end of the weekend, and our Safety Captain, Stefani C. walked away with a Safety Star!

Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award:

In 2009, Safety Captain Stephani C. and Co-Captain Ally P. put their minds together to develop new creative ideas in an effort to spread safety awareness. We increased our efforts in safety; it paid off with this award! Safety Star of the Day (February 27, 2009): This was awarded to Stephani C. for her strong efforts in safety at the Regional. Her displays of safety, which included Kiewit hard hats and plenty the strategic use of caution tape, certainly did not go unnoticed around the pits.

Woodie Flowers Award:

This prestigious award is presented to a mentor who has been an inspiration to a FIRST team. We nominated Mrs. Sue Rippe, who co-founded Team 1710 back in 2005. Her commitment to Team 1710 was exhibited in the many hours she mentors, guides and acts as a role model. Her strong dedication is an inspiration to not only the team, but to fellow coaches and mentors.

Regional Chairman's Award:

The most coveted award that is presented at FIRST Regional Competitions, the Chairman's Award "honors the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the purpose and goals of FIRST." Team 1710 took home this illustrious award for our creative outreach to spread the FIRST message, innovative business plan and team structure, and extensive community service, among other high-ranking qualifications. 2008: Denver, Colorado

Chrysler Team Spirit Award:

We were awarded our second Team Spirit Award (both in the same year) for our enthusiastic spirit in during the competition. Even in matches we did not perform so well in, we were still on our feet, screaming and yelling cheering on for our drive team as they piloted our robot, Yosefa.

Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award:

FIRST Team 1710 was thrilled to be presented with its second Industrial Safety Award at the 2008 Colorado Regional. Safety Captain Stephani Chaffin spent her days in Denver parading the pits with her safety sign, and used lots of caution tape to keep other team safe and sound.

Safety Star of the Day (March 27, 2008):

Hayden Maples, the team CEO, received his second Safety Star of the Day award on the Thursday of competition. After using his safety sign to display clever mottos, the safety judge's felt Hayden was had exhibited qualities of the best advocate for safety that day.

Chrysler Team Spirit Award:

This award recognizes the team with the most spirit and enthusiasm at exhibited during the competition. In the words of the Regional Director, "You'd have to be deaf, dumb, blind, and 600 miles away to not know who this team is." This cleverly sums up how loud and how much spirit we exhibited at the Kansas City Regional.

Website Award:

This award is given to the team that has creates the best website at the Regional. The website is judged on many criteria and for the second year in a row Team 1710 has produced an award-winning website.

Autodesk Visualization Award:

This award is presented to the team that creates the best animation during build season. Our animation team did a great job and came up with a creative, unique idea.

Safety Star of the Day (March 7, 2008):

On the Friday of competition, Stephani C. won this award after walking around the pits with a sign reading "Safety is the Key" and promoting safety to other teams at the Regional.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award:

This award recognized our team for demonstrating great entrepreneurial skills. In order to compete for this award, a team must have a business plan that describes how it is organized and managed. Due largely in part to our CEO, Hayden M.'s excellent work on our business plan, we had an outstanding showing of entrepreneurship.

Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award:

This award was given to the team that best demonstrates safe working conditions in the pit and on the field. Using our creative minds, our team not only stayed safe during the competition, but also demonstrated this safety in unique and creative ways. We helped spread the safety message by displaying a sign proclaiming our "Safety Motto of the Day." For example, on our first day, the sign read "Safety starts with me;" the second day it read "Safety is the Key;" and our final motto was "If it can't be done safely, it can't be done at all." Safety Captain, Sean E., and Co-Captain, Hayden M., were responsible for ensuring safe conditions at all times.

Website Award:

This award is presented to the team with the best looking, most informative website. Team 1710's website is solely student-designed and is intended to contain the best content, yet be easy to navigate. Our award-winning site was designed and built by Kyle R. with assistance from James G.

Safety Star of the Day (March 15, 2007):

This award was presented to Hayden M. for promoting safety during the Midwest Regional. Hayden demonstrated outstanding safety all day by "dressing" himself with caution tape and carrying a sign that read "Safety starts with me."