This award, sponsored by AutomationDirect.com, celebrates the art of digital animation and its close relationship to STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics).
NEW FOR 2025: There will be separate competitions for both FIRST Robotics Competition & FIRST Tech Challenge teams..
The Digital Animation Award is offered to help encourage students to cultivate skills in design and creation of animation including, but not limited to, storytelling, creativity, use of computer software, and an understanding of different techniques and forms of animation. This award is open to all FIRST Robotics Competition teams and FIRST Tech Challenge teams and is optional.
IDEAS:
- Person dives into water
- Underwater robots
- High dive jump
- As they hit the water, they are standing and then there is a controller and an ftc field.
- Zoom in of our robot with a zoom transition to the workshop with animated people diving into the ftc robot challenge
- Jump into the water
- Comes onto the field
- Zoom into robot (we’re working on it)
- Come out of water
- FTC logo and team number and maybe LOAD logo
- Robotic fish
- Diver, swims around coral reef but all life is robotic
- Coral reef spells LOAD
- Zoom out of water to see aerial view of reef that is shaped like the LOAD letters with robotic pelicans and stuff
- Air force song but changed to be about the ocean
- Load robotics to the tune of baby shark
- Everyone turns into robots like the pirates movie and falls into the water
- Dogs playing poker but they’re robots and underwater
- Robo shark chasing robo ship
- Basketball with robotic aquatic life and the ball are the ftc samples
- The baskets are the sample trays are the field
- Shellsketball with robofish