Excellence Award
Excellence Award
The Excellence Award recognizes overall excellence in both the Judged Award and the Performance Award categories. The Excellence Award incorporates all the criteria of the Design Award, plus the added component of a team’s on-field performance at the event. The Excellence Award is a required award if judging occurs at an event.
Key criteria of the Excellence Award are:
Be at or near the top of all Engineering Notebook Rubric rankings with a Fully Developed Notebook.
Both the Team Interview and Engineering Notebook demonstrate independent inquiry from the beginning stages of their design process through execution.
Be a candidate in consideration for other Judged Awards.
Demonstrate a student-centered ethos.
Exhibit positive team conduct, good sportsmanship, and professionalism.
The Engineering Notebook is consistent with the qualities demonstrated in the team interview and robot design.
At the conclusion of Qualification Matches, be ranked in the top 40% of teams* at the event in Qualification Match rankings.
At the conclusion of the Robot Skills Challenge matches, be ranked in the top 40% of teams* at the event.
At the conclusion of the Autonomous Coding Skills Challenge matches, be ranked in the top 40% of teams* at the event with a score above zero.
*For events with a single Excellence Award, percentages are based on the number of teams at the event. For blended grade level events with two grade specific Excellence Awards, percentages are based on the teams in each grade level for each award.
Notes:
Under certain conditions, at “blended” events which combine both grade levels (middle school and high school for V5RC, elementary school and middle school for VIQRC, and high school and university for VAIRC), one Excellence Award per grade level may be awarded. This is determined by the Qualifying Criteria. In the instance of two grade level specific Excellence Awards being given out at an event, teams are only compared to teams of the same grade level. This includes quantitative event data, such as rankings. When only one Excellence Award is given out for an event with multiple grade levels, all teams are considered together without regard for their grade level.
For example, in a 24-team blended event with a single Excellence Award, 40% of 24 teams would be 9.6, which rounds up to 10 teams. To be eligible for Excellence, a team would need to be ranked in the top 10 in the event for the above performance metrics to be eligible for the Excellence Award. If the event had 12 teams of each grade level, thus meeting the requirements for two grade level specific Excellence Awards, then 40% of 12 teams comes out to 4.8, which rounds up to 5. In this instance, teams would need to be ranked 5th place or higher within their grade level in the above performance metrics to be eligible for the grade level specific Excellence Award.For events qualifying teams directly to a VEX Robotics World Championship event with fewer than 16 teams present, Regional Support Managers may authorize that the 40% ranking requirements for Tournament ranking, overall Skills ranking, and Autonomous Coding Skills ranking be waived. Teams are still required to have an Autonomous Coding Skills score above zero to be eligible. Judges should still consider a team’s performance rankings in their deliberations for the award.