Create Award

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What’s a Create Award?

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So Google of vex VEXIQ judges guide create award got me to this link:

and 2/3 down the page is this:

CREATE AWARD

The Create Award recognizes a creative engineering design solution to one or more of the challenges of the competition.

Key criteria of the Create Award are:

  • Team demonstrates a creative approach to accomplish game objectives.
  • Team has committed to ambitious and creative approaches to solving the game challenge.
  • Team explains how they worked together to develop their robot design and game strategy.
  • Team Interview demonstrates effective communication skills, teamwork, professionalism, and a student-centered ethos.
  • The Engineering Notebook is consistent with the qualities demonstrated in the team interview and robot design.

Hope both the tutorial on how to find things and the exact verbiage is a help.

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Interesting. Thanks. So this year these 3 similar awards, design, innovate and create, are more important than skills or team work runners up.

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Yes, got to remember that it’s Robot Education first in the list, so lots of awards that reward design, innovation, creativity, building, etc. Anyone can push two joysticks around for 30 seconds.

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I’m actually a big fan of awards such as these. They focus on the reason we’re all here; to educate kids on the value of the engineering design process, problem solving, effective documentation, teamwork and creativity.

I hope it helps promote creatively designed robots and not a bunch of clone bots. It does seem as though this year there are multiple effective designs as opposed to prior seasons (last year being my first as a coach…so it’s my strongest pint of reference) where there is a singularly dominant design at competitions.

In the 3 tournaments we’ve been to, the winning robots in teamwork challenge have been quite varied…which is awesome!

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That sounds reasonable. I would also suggest that the judge take into account teams that are all-female or predominantly made up of minorities with limited resources when considering some of these qualifying awards.

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Why do these matter in robotics?

This makes mpre sense because teams had to engineer a solution for their problem of lack of parts.

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There are many reasons. Some of them are explained here: The Gender Gap in STEM | MIT Professional Education
example, Many individuals still associate STEM fields with masculine qualities, leading to stereotypes that can discourage girls and women from pursuing STEM education and careers.

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Because racism and misogyny still exist in the world.
Women are underrepresented in STEM, and that’s what things like the girl-powered initiative aim to combat

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