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Championship Details

Global Innovation Award

At this year's FLL Championship event we will be selecting two of the best Innovative Solutions presented as part of the team's project. This is not the entire project just the Innovative Solution. These winners will to be nominated to submit their Innovative Solutions to possibly being selected to attend the Global Innovation Award Conference in Orlando Florida in Jun, 2020. The selection process will follow the GIA Standard Selection Rules set up by FIRST.

Below will describe our process...
(Note: The details may change as we get closer to the Championship Event. Any changes will be updated here.)

• After the morning judging sessions, the Project Judges will come together to consider the top Innovative Solutions. Remember this is not the entire Project just the Innovative Solution portion of the Project.
  • The Project judges will immediately have a deliberation of how all the proposed Innovative Solutions will rank. These rankings will be used later when deciding the awards.
  • Up to the top 8 of these will then be selected to be re-interviewed by Global Innovation Awards judges. Note: If the Project Judges, after their deliberations, feel that only the top six are worthy to be re-interviewed then only the top six will be re-interviewed.
• These GIA judges will re-interview each of the top eight (8) teams for 10 minutes to help determine the two (2) that will be nominated by the PA-Southeast Region for the 2019-2020 FLL season.
  • These interviews will happen during the competition phase so teams will be contacted in their pits when to go to the GIA judges’ room. This is a different room than all the other judging was done in. It will be closer to the competition gym to allow for less travel time. Teams will bring only the Innovative Solution part and any supporting materials.
  • The discussion will focus only on the Solution not the entire Project. Teams should be able to describe and answer questions about the Solution only.
  • As with all judging, only the students will be allowed in the GIA Judging room.
• The two (2) selected Innovative Solutions teams will be announced at the beginning of the Awards Ceremony with each team getting an invitation to submit their Innovative Solution to FIRST.
  • The GIA Judges’ will have no knowledge of what awards any of the nominees will be getting as this nomination only considers the best Innovative Solution at the event.
  • The is NOT considered as a Judged award. It is a recognition and nomination to an additional event.
  • Because no team is allowed to win more than one (1) judged award it MUST be understood that the GIA winner may, but does not have to be, one of the champions, or the programming winner or the robot design winner or the Gracious Professionalism winner or any of the other judged awards.
  • It may also be that the actual winner of the Innovative Solution Award trophy may not be selected as one of the GIA invitees because others, winning other awards, were judged to have better Innovative Solution and they won other awards.
• After the event, the GIA nominated teams will then have some time to prepare and submit an entry to FIRST describing only their Innovative Solution.
• If a team is selected by the FIRST GIA review committee, they will invited to travel to Orlando in June to attend the GIA Conference.

You can see all the Global Innovation Award details on the FIRST website.