The Team Sustainability Award, previously known as the Entrepreneurship Award, celebrates and recognizes a team which has developed sustainable practices to have a positive environmental impact and achieve long-term continuity.
Award Guidelines
- The team has a clear concept or approach to building their team and operates as a cohesive unit.
- The team proactively identified and managed risks, acquiring the assets to effectively deal with adversity as well as unexpected events.
- The team understands that operating in harmony with the environment is important for long-term team viability.
- The team is taking steps to reduce their environmental impact and building environmental sustainability into team activities.
- The team understood the goals of the competition and the mission of FIRST.
- The team must be able to explain:
- What team sustainability practices are in place such as recruiting and training future team members.
- How the team keeps students, mentors, and sponsors actively engaged by making decisions and dividing their workload
- How the team celebrate success and document lessons learned to prevent repeating mistakes
- How the team assesses its environmental impact and what the team does to mitigate or reduce it.
- How the team’s environmental sustainability strategy impacts their team longevity.
- How the team is funded and how the team budgets, including potential revenue from sustainability practices like metal recycling
Team Approach
The team maintains productive relationships with many of our sponsors, preforms risk analysis, and has plans to continue to be viable long into the future. These are all documented in our business plan.