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Content Type: FIRST Robotics Competition

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What is the FIRST Dean’s List Award?

In an effort to recognize the leadership and dedication of FIRST’s most outstanding secondary school students, the Kamen family sponsors awards for selected 10th or 11th grade* students known as the FIRST Robotics Competition® and the FIRST Tech Challenge FIRST Dean’s List Award. Since its introduction in 2010, the FIRST Dean’s List Award has attracted the attention of prestigious colleges and universities who desire to recruit FIRST Dean’s List students.

Similar to the very prestigious National Merit Scholarship Award, there are three (3) levels of FIRST Dean’s List Award students.

FIRST Dean’s List Semi-finalists – comprised of the two (2) students in their 10th or 11th school year* nominated by each team.
FIRST Dean’s List Finalists - comprised of the two (2) students selected at each FIRST Robotics Competition Regional or FIRST Robotics Competition District Championship (the Qualifying Events).
- Note: At FIRST Robotics Competition District Championships, more than two (2) students may be selected, depending on the size of the district.
FIRST Dean’s List Winners - comprised of the ten (10) FIRST Robotics Competition and ten (10) FIRST Tech Challenge students selected from the applicable FIRST Dean’s List Finalists at the FIRST Championship.

Each team is invited to select up to two (2) students who are in the 10^th or 11^th grade (sophomores or juniors) as FIRST Dean's List Semi-Finalists. The students who earn FIRST Dean’s List Award status as a Semi-Finalists, Finalist or Winner, are great examples of student leaders who have led their Teams and communities to increased awareness for FIRST and its mission. These students have also achieved personal technical expertise and accomplishment. It is the intention of FIRST that these individuals will continue on, post-Award, as great leaders, student alumni, and advocates of FIRST.

FIRST hopes that each Team will take advantage of the opportunity to nominate the most qualified students as FIRST Dean’s List Nominees!

Students are nominated by their team mentors. Celebrate your Team's top 1 or 2 student leaders by nomination them for the FIRST Dean's List Award. Details available on the Awards page. Additional resources can be found here.

2025 Winners

Team	Name	Location
9029	Yiğit Efe Erdoğmuş	Ankara, Türkiye
3009	Maeli McNary	Nevada, USA
2557	Owen Gillick	Washington, USA
3616	Rudra Karadkhelkar	Louisiana, USA
6421	Keira Peterson	Wisconsin, USA
2531	Mahendran Madhan Kumar	Minnesota, USA
71	Melina Mata	Indiana, USA
469	Marcus Wong	Michigan, USA
3314	Kristia Nahas	New Jersey, USA
1155	Marlon Wald	New York, USA

2024 Winners

Team	Name	Location
4131	Akash Krishna	Washington, USA
4414	Alisha Ali	California, USA
9642	Darius De Biagi	New York, USA
4931	Edna Conness	Illinois, USA
6413	Elizabeth Seaton	Arizona, USA
7531	Ella Meyer	Iowa, USA
9134	Kamila Ortega Sandoval	Chihuahua, Mexico
4421	Max Du	Alberta, Canada
2202	Noah Ren	Wisconsin, USA
1188	Sarah Milligan	Michigan, USA

2023 Winners

Team	Name	Location
687	Brianna Adewinmbi	California, USA
2465	Joveline Alice F. Alvarez	Hawaii, USA
176	Ana-Lois Davis	Connecticut, USA
3926	Ian Frankel	Minnesota, USA
401	Abigail Lafon	Virginia, USA
2638	Shaan Merchant	New York, USA
1772	Bruno Ósio Jerônimo	Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
6473	Elise Rina	Florida, USA
1296	Audrey Smith	Texas, USA
503	Sanjith Udupa	N=Michigan, USA

2022 Winners

Absent from photo: Ethan Brown and Arvind Seshan

Team	Name	Location
5338	Ethan Brown	Virginia, USA
2905	Nazlı Eren	Istanbul, Turkey
2834	Thomas Gormley	Michigan, USA
3928	Leslie Kim	Iowa, USA
2129	Nate King	Minnesota, USA
5188	Trevor Langley	Indiana, USA
871	Christopher Palazzo	New York, USA
2383	Alicia Ramirez	Florida, USA
8027	Arvind Seshan	Pennsylvania, USA
1967	Joyce Yang	California, USA

2021 Winners

Team	Name	Location
931	Obike Anwisye	Missouri, USA
3932	Megan Enriquez	Florida, USA
7717	Ignacio Fernandez	Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
503	Arseniy Ilinich	Michigan, USA
6035	Mim Macdonell	New South Wales, Australia
8603	Kathleen O'Sullivan	New York, USA
3006	Fikir Teklemedhin	Utah, USA
604	Claudius Tewari	California, USA
118	Tatiana Vassiliev	Texas, USA
7461	Eric Zhou	Redmond, Washington, USA

2020 Winners

Team	Name	Location
7435	Anastasia Cook	MO, USA
6821	Ashley Farrell	CA, USA
7799	Tim Gubski	AB, Canada
7539	Shiv Kampani	Maharashtra, India
624	Kyna McGill	TX, USA
1622	Madalyn Nguyen	CA, USA
1086	Jack O'Leary	VA, USA
2383	Jose Ramirez	FL, USA
1540	Tiffany Toh	OR, USA
3061	Jasmine Zhang	IL, USA

2019 Winners

Absent from photo: Jacob Rodriguez

Team	Name	Location
931	Chibale Anwisye	MO, USA
1718	Paige Drob	MI, USA
5740	Thomas Franco	PA, USA
1073	Cameron Hallett	NH, USA
5016	Abigail Holmes	NY, USA
6579	Nicola Pang	New South Wales, Australia
4322	Jacob Rodriguez	CA, USA
115	Divya Satrawada	CA, USA
4946	Param Upadhyay	Ontario, Canada
3574	Lauren Vitellaro	WA, USA

2018 Winners

Absent from photo: Grace Lam

Team	Name	Location
2468	Joseph Asfouri	TX, USA
118	Reed Blanchard	TX, USA
1418	Erik Boesen	VA, USA
135	McKenna Hillsdon-Smith	IN, USA
1868	Grace Lam	CA, USA
1261	Natalie Luong	GA, USA
6024	Aarushi Majumder	Maharashtra, India
1506	Gabrielle Malson	MI, USA
4384	Sanket Nayak	MI, USA
1660	Malachi Patrick	NY, USA

2017 Winners

2017 Dean's List Winners FIRST Robotics Competition

Team	Name	Location
5627	Xavier Balladarez	CA, USA
1325	Tanreet Dhaliwal	ON, Canada
5811	Jared Dunn	OH, USA
5511	Sreekar Mantena	NC, USA
8	Simran Pujji	CA, USA
1165	Zachary Rolfness	AZ, USA
226	Dikshant Sharma	MI, USA
2723	Maddie Smith	OK, USA
5806	Benjamin Spector	NY, USA
4087	Rebekah Travis	LA, USA

2016 Winners

2016 Dean's List Winners

Team	Name	Location
846	Shikhar Jagadeesh	CA, USA
3284	Brenden Babour	MO, USA
3250	Autumn Luna	CA, USA
180	Shantanu Jakhete	FL, USA
3061	Brandon John	IL, USA
1241	Shaqeeb Momen	Ontario, Canada
5830	Chenelle Foster	MD, USA
3494	Zarya deSouza	IN, USA
503	Mitchel Huang	MI, USA
118	Jessa Westheimer	TX, USA

See also: Recording of the Dean's List Award Presentation

2015 Winners

2015 FRC Dean's List Winners

Team	Name	Location
3990	Emilie Dufour	Quebec, Canada
830	David Earle	MI, USA
4964	Cynthia Erenas	CA, USA
1684	Alyssa Garcia	MI, USA
125	Camilo Gonzalez	MA, USA
4118	Logan Hickox	FL, USA
1629	Alexandra Miller	MD, USA
4013	Sebastian Orellana	FL, USA
1912	Ben Rowley	LA, USA
2980	Michael Uttmark	WA, USA

2014 Winners


FRC Team #	Name	Location
2486	Kinney Anderson	AZ, USA
1671	Callie Carbajal	CA, USA
2471	Bryce Croucher	WA, USA
1923	Michael Foley	NJ, USA
1311	Alec Kumpf	GA, USA
1912	Alexander Lew	LA, USA
2177	Madeleine Logeais	MN, USA
3504	Simran Parwani	PA, USA
27	Camron Razdar	MI, USA
4201	Anthony Stuart	CA, USA
2013 Winners
FRC Team #	Name	Location
4476	Kaley Bibic	ON, Canada
1533	Ephraim Bililign	NC, USA
359	William Blaser	HI, USA
3504	Naoka Gunawardena	PA, USA
4159	Orfi Harlev	CA, USA
3547	Kathryn Hite	MI, USA
2093	Kristina Landen	OR, USA
2834	Kristen Law	MI, USA
589	Isabel Martos-Repath	CA, USA
704	Joshua Thomas	TX, USA
2012 Winners
FRC Team #	Name	Location
3059	Ikechukwu Chima	NY, USA
1540	Marina Dimitrov	WA, USA
128	Chase Douglass	OH, USA
1058	Tristan Evarts	NH, USA
3138	Danielle Gehron	OH, USA
3196	David Gomez	NC, USA
1912	Rachel Holladay	LA, USA
2996	Jasmine Kemble	CO, USA
842	John Rangel	AZ, USA
704	Matthew Ricks	TX, USA
2011 Winners
FRC Team #	Name	Location
1334	Nicholas Bandiera	Ontario, Canada
1985	Luther Banner	MO, USA
228	Tina Dutra	CT, USA
2543	Santiago Garza	CA, USA
1983	Lydia Johnston	WA, USA
2534	JB Ring	MD, USA
135	Michael Schrager	IN, USA
78	Michael Violet	RI, USA
987	Cody Wall	NV, USA
1868	Christina Wettersten	CA, USA
2010 Winners
FRC Team #	Name	Location
548	Beth Hadley	MI, USA
2437	Caitlin Mori	HI, USA
1480	Carlos Pineda	TX, USA
1712	Delia Votsch	PA, USA
1535	Ian Graham	ON, Canada
3368	Ingrid Fiedler	Mostar, Bosnia & Hertzegovina
1002	Kyle Fender	GA, USA
2614	Luke Scime	WV, USA
3132	Sarah Heimlich	NSW, Australia
694	Seth Berg	NY, USA