1996:

-FIRST National Competition Orlando, Florida

Rookie All-Stars Award

Inaugural WPI Scholarship Award ($68,000) Worchester, Massachusetts

-FIRST DEKA New England Competition Manchester, New Hampshire

Rookie All-Start Award

-Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Detroit, Michigan

Outstanding Engineer of the Year Award: (Dr. Joseph Johnson, Design Engineer, Delphi Interior and Lighting

-North Oakland County NAACP Pontiac, Michigan

Distinguished Leadership Award: (Dr. Willie B. Aldridge, Principal, Pontiac Central High School)

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1997:

-FIRST National Competition Orlando, FL

Chairman's Award (Grand Award)

Silver Medal Finalist Award

Inaugural Daniel Webster Scholarship Award Boston, Massachusetts

$30,000

Johnson & Johnson "Buzz Team Award"

-FIRST DEKA New England Competition Manchester, New Hampshire

Judges Award

- FIRST Johnson & Johnson Mid-Atlantic Competition New Brunswick, New Jersey

Top Seed Award

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1998:

-FIRST Great Lakes Regional Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan

First Place: Gold Medal Award:

Pontiac Northern Power train Most Helpful Team Award

International Academy Appreciation Award

-FIRST New England Competition Gold Medal Award: Manchester, New Hampshire

FIRST DEKA New England Competition Top Seed Award

-FIRST Southwest Competition Gold Medal Award: Houston, TX

FIRST Southwest Competition Top Seed Award

FIRST Southwest Competition Design Engineering Award

-Oakland County Urban League Leadership Awards:

(Dr. Barbara Sanders, Director of Engineering-Advanced Development, Delphi-I; Dr. Willie B. Aldridge, Principal, Pontiac Central High School; Dr. Joseph Johnson, Design Engineer, Delphi-I and Pontiac Central High School FIRST Coaches: Birta L. Allen, Academic Liaison; Michael Martus, Vocational Education Department Chair; Michael McIntyre, Physics Instructor; Lorene Phillips, English Department Chair; Robert Rich, Mathematics Instructor; and Arthur Williams, Student Advocate) Pontiac, MI

-National School Boards Association (NSBA) Award: New Orleans, Louisiana

-Michigan Net Day Selection AWARD, Lansing, Michigan

-Design News Chicago, Illinois

National Innovation in Engineering Award

-National Education Association/Michigan Education Association (NEA/MEA)

Saluting Public Schools Award: (Commercial aired in US and Canada) Lansing, Michigan

-MEA Lansing, Michigan

Business & Industry Award

-Chrysler Corporation Auburn Hills, Michigan

Outstanding Educator Award: (Michael Martus)

-Pontiac PTSA Council Pontiac, Michigan

Secondary Teacher of the Year Award:

(1^st time to a group FIRST Coaches: Birta L Allen, Michael Martus, Michael McIntyre, Lorene Phillips, Jamie Schutt, Arthur Williams) Pontiac, Michigan

-Wal-Mart Corporation National Teacher of the Year Award:

(1^st time to a group FIRST Coaches Birta L. Allen, Michael Martus, Michael McIntyre, Lorene Phillips, Arthur Williams) Bentonville, Arkansas

-General Motors Corporation Detroit, Michigan

International Founders Award

-Boston Edison Rumble at the Rock Tournament: Boston, Massachusetts

Judges Award

-State visit by Secretary of Education Richard Riley to honor out team

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1999:

-FIRST Philadelphia Alliance Regional Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Motorola Quality Award

-FIRST Great Lakes Regional Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan

Outstanding Defensive Play

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2000:

-FIRST Epcot National Competition Orlando, Florida

Chairman's Award Finalist Trophy

9^th Seed of 270 Teams

15^th Place out of 270 Team

-FIRST Great Lakes Regional Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan

First Place: Gold Medal

-FIRST Mid-Atlantic Regional Rutgers University Rutgers New Brunswick, New Jersey

Honeywell Leadership in Controls Award

Third Place: Bronze Medal

Number One Seed Trophy

-FIRST Mid-Atlantic Regional Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois

First Place: Gold Medal

-Indiana Invitational Tournament Kokomo, Indiana

Second Place: Silver Trophy

Best Offensive Robot Trophy

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2001:

-National Indiana Robotics Invitational Tournament Kokomo, Indiana

Second Place: Silver Medal

-Delphi Automotive Systems Golden Gear Award, J.T. Battenberg, President

-FIRST Nationals, Orlando, Florida

Chairman's Award Finalist Trophy (Second Consecutive Year)

Fifth Place: Silver Medal

-FIRST Great Lakes Regional, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Johnson & Johnson Leadership in Controls Award

Fourth Place

-FIRST New York Regional, New York, New York

First Place: Gold Medal Winner

Johnson & Johnson Leadership in Controls Award

Daimler Chrysler Spirit Award

-FIRST United Technologies Regional Hartford, Connecticut

Judges Award (Top award of the competition)

Fourth Place

-National Medal of Technology Student Conference Award Washington, DC

-Personal Invitation by National Medal of Technology Winner, Dean Kamen

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2002:

-FIRST National Hall of Fame Induction, Orlando, Florida

-FIRST Grand Rapids Regional, Grand Rapids, MI

First Place: Gold Medal

General Motors Industrial Design Award

Incredible Play Award

Top Score of the 2002 Regional Tournaments (156 Points)

-FIRST Great Lakes Regional, Ypsilanti, MI

Special Judges' Award ("The Team That Has Everything!")

-FIRST Buckeye Regional, Cleveland, Ohio

Delphi Engineering Quality Award

Third Place

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2003:

-Kettering Kick-Off, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan

Spirit of the Competition Award

-FIRST Buckeye Regional, Cleveland, Ohio

Entrepreneurial Award

-FIRST National Competition, Houston, Texas

Archimedes Division

Silver Medal

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2004:

-Detroit Regional

Spirit Award

First Place

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2005:

-FIRST Championship ( The name changed from Finals to Championship) Atlanta, Georgia

Spirit of the Competition Award Hall of Fame Recognition (Three Good Stars)

-FIRST Wayne State University Regional, Detroit, Michigan

Regional Woodie Flowers Award (Michael Martus)

-FIRST Western Michigan Regional, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Spirit of the Competition Award

-Kettering Kick Off, Flint, Michigan

Spirit of the Competition

Medal - 1st Place

High Score of the Tournament

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2006:

-SAFETY Runner Up Wayne State

-Website Excellence Award

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2007:

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