APPENDIX
GUIDE TO JUDGING AND AWARDS
Overall Champion and Finalist Awards The Overall Champion and Finalist Awards celebrate excellence in a team’s Engineering Notebook, Interview, and Workcell performance. These honors recognize a team’s ability to approach the Engineering Design Process, project management, and team organization in a structured and professional manner. Demonstrating the Engineering Design Process is central to the educational value of REC Foundation programs, and these awards highlight a team’s ability to effectively document and explain their process through both the Engineering Notebook and Team Interview. The Overall Champion Award, in particular, acknowledges a well-crafted Workcell built with meticulous attention to detail, capable of efficiently completing the various phases of the competition. It also honors the most innovative and consistent use of coding techniques and programming design solutions to address the challenge. The Overall Champion and Finalist Awards will be determined based on the following criteria. The Overall Champion will be selected from the Finalists. A panel of judges will decide the award winners, and if necessary, an additional interview may be arranged with the Finalists. Key criteria of the Overall Champion Award are: • Be at or near the top of all Engineering Notebook Rubric rankings with a Fully Developed Notebook. The absolute minimum for a notebook to be considered Fully Developed is scores of two or higher for the first six criteria of the rubric. • Both the Team Interview and Engineering Notebook demonstrate independent inquiry from the beginning stages of their design process through execution. The team demonstrates how their inquiry guided their Workcell design and programming. Independent inquiry can take many forms, including speaking with engineers, touring factories virtually or in-person, and industry research. • Team embodies the student-centered ethos. • At the conclusion of the season, be in the top 30% of the global leaderboard . • Teams must be in the top 30% of the overall Engineering Notebook scores . • Teams must be in the top 30% of the overall Team Interview scores . • The Engineering Notebook is consistent with the qualities demonstrated in the team interview and Workcell design. • Team Interview demonstrates their ability to explain their workcell design and strategy. • Programs are cleanly written, well commented, and easy to follow. Team also clearly explains their management process/version control. • Students understand and explain how they worked together to develop their Workcell code.
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