The Green Egg Robotics team received the prestigious Build Award at the 2009 VRC World Championships in Dallas, Texas on May 2nd, 2009 for the team’s robot Fred II. The team consisting of James and Leland Crowther, Josef Ameur and Kieran O’Sullivan were very pleased and honored to have their robot chosen out of the field of 260 robots from around the world participating in the World Championship. In order to qualify for the world championship, teams must win local and /or regional awards or tournaments so the quality of the field was extremely high.
The Build Award is a judges’ award given to the robot which demonstrates the highest level of excellence in “craftsmanship and construction". During the presentation of the award the announcer describe Fred II as a robot that was not ”fragile like an egg” in reference to the team name, Green Egg Robotics.
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