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The Design Award recipient demonstrates a clear and professional approach towards their design process. They clearly demonstrate time management and organization throughout the project. The team's Engineering Notebook and their interview with the judges show that they can create a high-quality robot by themselves. Only teams that submit Engineering Notebooks are elgible for the Design Award. Only teams that submit an Engineering Notebook can qualify for this award.

The key criteria for the Design Award are:

• The Engineering Notebook is clear, complete, and organized. It records the robot design process.
• The team demonstrates an effective use of time, talent, and resources.
• The team interview demonstrates that they can explain how they designed the robot and their overall game strategy.
• The team interview demonstrates their effective communication skills, professionalism, and teamwork.

The rubric for the Design Award is located on the bottom of the Notebook Tips page.

The Excellence Award is the highest award presented. This award is given to the team that is overall exemplary in all aspects, and is a strong contender in many award categories.

The key criteria for the Excellence Award are:

• Ranking for Design Award
• Ranking for Qualification Matches
• Ranking for Robot Skills
• Ranking for other Judged Awards
• Team Interview with Judges
• High-quality robotics program
• Team conduct

The Judges Award is given to the team that the Judges believe should be specially recognized. The criteria for this award is very broad. Judges may look at team displays of certain attributes, excellent effort and perseverance, or other accomplishments outside of the competition.

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