The Rising All-Star Award , previously called the Rookie Inspiration Award, celebrates the team that has persisted through challenges, despite the difficulties of being young. This could be the result of being a new team, or a team with recent turnover in membership.
Award Guidelines
- This team understands the power of the FIRST mission and demonstrates through their actions both at home and at the competition the ethos of Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition.
- This team is a role model for other young teams
- This team stands out as a team with a sustainable and promising future with FIRST.
- The purpose of this award is to recognize new teams or teams that have new beginnings
- Teams do not have to be in their first year. For example, the award could recognize a team in their second or third year who has undergone significant growth or succeeded despite challenges.