Lake Washington High School’s Washington FIRST Robotics Team 5827 “Code Purple” received the Rookie All Star Award during the first weekend of March at the Auburn Mountain View District Competition.

The Rookie All Star Award celebrates a rookie team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school, as well as in their community.

Guidelines for the team award include that it could be chosen for “Chairman’s Award team in the making” the Highest Award in FIRST Robotics; represents the true partnership between school or organization and sponsors; team members understand what FIRST is really trying to accomplish – realizes that technical stuff is fun, challenging, and offers a future; and has built a robot appropriate to the game’s challenges.

The team also won the Rookie Inspiration Award and Highest Rookie seed award this past weekend at Glacier Peak District Event. Luke Mathews was selected as a dean’s list finalist and will compete in Portland at the PNW District Championship for that award.