Impact Award (formerly Chairman's Award): The most prestigious award at FIRST which honors the team that  best represents a model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the mission of FIRST.

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Engineering Inspiration Award: Celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team's school or organization and community.

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Team Spirit Award: Celebrates extraordinary enthusiasm and teamwork furthering the objective of FIRST.

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Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen: This award celebrates attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration of machine and team appearance. 

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Autonomous Award sponsored by Ford: Celebrates the team that has demonstrated consistent, reliable, high-performance robot operation during autonomously managed actions. 

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Creativity Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation: Celebrates creativity that enhances strategy of play and was intentionally designed and not discovered. 

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Innovation in Control Award: Celebrates an innovative control system or application of control components - electrical, mechanical or software - to provide unique machine functions.