Kettering Kickoff

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Ketting Kickoff is an off-season competition held at Kettering University in Michigan. KICKOFF stands for (Kettering) Intelligent Competition for Kids and Opportunity For Fun.

Contents 1 Years 2 Awards 2.1 Spirit of FIRST Award 2.2 Kickoff Finalist 2.3 Kettering Kickoff "Top Dog" Award 2.4 Top Score 2.5 #1 Seed 2.6 Robot Design Excellence Award 3 External links

Years

• Kettering Kickoff (2004)
• Kettering Kickoff (2005)
• Kettering Kickoff (2006)

Off-Season Events

Northeast Battlecry@WPI Beantown Blitz Capital Clash (DC area) Duel on the Delaware Brunswick Eruption Finger Lakes Invitational New Jersey FIRST Invitational Pennsylvania Robot Challenge (PARC) RiverRage Robot Rumble Rumble at the Rock Ramp Riot Rah Cha Cha Ruckus Mayhem in Merrimack Southeast Bash at the Beach Tempest 'n' Tampa (TNT) Midwest Ann Arbor Spring Repeat Indiana Robotics Invitational (IRI) Kettering Kickoff Michigan Advanced Robotics Competition (MARC) Ralley in the Valley Summer Frenzy Sweet Repeat Fall Fury West California Robot Games Duel in the Desert Robot Rodeo San Diego Scrimmage SCRRF Fall Classic International Monty Madness Paramount Canada's Wonderland Other FIRST related competitions ChiefDelphi Invitational (CDI) FANATIC (animation competition) NRG RoboCoder OCCRA (fall competition w/ new robots) Savage Soccer (fall VEX competition)

Awards

This section is copied from Kettering's website

Spirit of FIRST Award

(Sponsored by Carman-Ainsworth Team 314) (Voted by all the participating teams)

• Team spirit - Create unity, identity, excitement and motivation for the team
• Student/Engineer collaboration - Working hand in hand in strategy, design, maintenance
• Gracious Professionalism - Competing yet cooperating, good sportsmanship
• Teamwork - All facets of team are organized and working in unison
• Ambassadors of FIRST - Explaining FIRST

Kickoff Finalist

(Sponsored by The F.I.R.E. Team 322) Second Place Alliance

Kettering Kickoff "Top Dog" Award

(Sponsored By Kettering University) Winner of final round of play

Top Score

(Sponsored by Goodrich Martians Team 494) Top Game Scored by an Alliance in Qualifying

#1 Seed

(Sponsored by Fenton High School Team 471) Highest Quality Points in Seeding Matches

Robot Design Excellence Award

(Sponsored by Baker University Engineering Dept.)

• Aesthetics - Finished outer skin, form follows function
• Performance - Accomplishes what it was designed to do
• Reliability - Works well with a minimum of maintenance and breakdown
• Simplicity/Efficiency - Task accomplished with clean, simple mechanisms
• Innovation - New ideas for accomplishing tasks

External links

• Official 2004 story

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