This team embraces the culture of FIRST and clearly shows what it means to be a team. This judged award celebrates the team that represents the essence of the FIRST Tech Challenge competition through Gracious Professionalism® and general enthusiasm for the overall philosophy of FIRST and what it means to be a FIRST Tech Challenge team. This is a team who makes a collective effort to make FIRST known throughout their school and community, and sparks others to embrace the culture of FIRST.

Required Criteria for the Motivate Award:

• Team must show respect and Gracious Professionalism® to everyone they meet at a FIRST Tech Challenge event.
• Team must submit an engineering portfolio. The engineering portfolio must include a Team Organization Plan, which could describe their future goals and the steps they will take to reach those goals.
  • Examples of what the plan could include are:
    • Team identity
    • Fund-raising goals
    • Sustainability goals
    • Timelines
    • Outreach
    • Finances
    • Community service goals.
• The team must be an ambassador for FIRST programs.
• Team must be able to explain the individual contributions of each team member, and how these apply to the overall success of the team.

Strongly Suggested Criteria for the Motivate Award:

• Team takes part in their presentation, and actively engages with the judges.
• Team shows a creative approach to materials that market their team and FIRST.
• Team can clearly show the successful recruitment of people who were not already active within the STEM community.
• Team could also summarize experiences and lessons learned from outreach.
• The team should refer to the Award Definitions for judging outlined in Appendix F of Game Manual Part 1 for outreach and be able to provide supporting documentation to the judges, where applicable