TALON 540 Godwin Robotics - Team 540 (History)

Team 540 - TALON 540 Godwin Robotics

From Henrico, Virginia, USA
aka ShowBest Fixture Inc./Boeing/DuPont Spruance/Onshape by PTC/NASA&Mills Godwin High School
Rookie Year: 2001
Details on firstinspires.org

Competition List:

Year	Event	Awards
2026	Hopper Division
2026	FIRST Chesapeake District Championship presented by C-CAM, VSU, Go Tec, and NASA	FIRST Leadership Award Finalist (Anandi S)
2026	FCH District Blacksburg VA Event presented by Ball	District Championship FIRST Leadership Award Semi-Finalist (Kristine E) District Championship FIRST Leadership Award Semi-Finalist (Anandi S) District Event Finalist Quality Award
2026	FCH District Glen Allen VA Event presented by Porvair Filtration	District FIRST Impact Award
2025	Rumble #10
2025	Hopper Division
2025	FIRST Chesapeake District Championship presented by Qualcomm	District Championship Engineering Inspiration Award Woodie Flowers Finalist Award (Earl Hurlburt)
2025	CHS District Blacksburg VA Event presented by Volvo	Gracious Professionalism Award
2025	CHS District Glen Allen VA Event presented by Herndon Foundation	District Engineering Inspiration Award
2024	CHS District Glen Allen VA Event	District Championship Dean's List Semi-Finalist (Aarushi R) Team Sustainability Award sponsored by Dow
2024	CHS District Ashland VA Event	Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen
2023	FIRST Chesapeake District Championship	FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award (Aryan Mhaskar)
2023	CHS District Glen Allen VA Event	District Engineering Inspiration Award District Championship Dean's List Semi-Finalist (Aryan Mhaskar)
2023	CHS District Blacksburg VA Event	Gracious Professionalism Award
2022	CHSy Champs
2022	CHS District Greater Richmond Event #2 Day 2
2022	CHS District Greater Richmond Event #1 Day 1	Entrepreneurship Award
2021	FIRST Chesapeake District Awards Event	FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award (Jusman Shokar)
2021	Chromium Group - Game Design Challenge	Engineering Design Award
2021	Game Design Challenge Event
2021	Neon Group - FIRST Innovation Challenge
2021	FIRST Innovation Challenge Event presented by Qualcomm
2021	Season Participation for CHS District Teams
2020	* CHS District Blacksburg VA Event (Cancelled)
2020	CHS District Richmond VA Event sponsored by Dominion Energy	District Engineering Inspiration Award
2019	Rumble in the Roads
2019	IROC (ILITE Robotics Offseason Challenge)
2019	FIRST Chesapeake District Championship
2019	CHS District Blacksburg VA Event	Team Spirit Award sponsored by FCA Foundation
2019	CHS District Richmond VA Event sponsored by Dominion Energy	Industrial Design Award sponsored by General Motors
2018	Rumble in the Roads
2018	IROC
2018	FIRST Chesapeake District Championship
2018	CHS District Southwest Virginia Event sponsored by Anton Paar	District Engineering Inspiration Award
2018	CHS District Central Virginia Event sponsored by Dominion Energy	Entrepreneurship Award sponsored by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers
2017	Rumble in the Roads
2017	FIRST Chesapeake District Championship sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton	FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award (Ojas Amberkar)
2017	CHS District - Central Virginia Event	District Engineering Inspiration Award
2017	CHS District - Southwest Virginia Event	District Event Winner Creativity Award sponsored by Xerox
2016	Rumble in the Roads
2016	Tesla Division	Entrepreneurship Award sponsored by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers
2016	FIRST Chesapeake District Championship sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton	Regional Engineering Inspiration Award FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award (Andrew Miller)
2016	CHS District - Central Virginia Event	Innovation in Control Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation
2016	CHS District - Southwest Virginia Event	District Engineering Inspiration Award
2015	Rumble in the Roads
2015	Newton Division
2015	Virginia Regional	FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award (Uday Patil) Regional Finalists Innovation in Control Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation
2014	Rumble in the Roads
2014	Curie Division
2014	Virginia Regional	Engineering Inspiration Creativity Award sponsored by Xerox
2013	Curie Division
2013	Virginia Regional	Engineering Inspiration Award Innovation in Control Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation
2012	Virginia Regional
2011	Virginia Regional	Finalist
2010	Archimedes Division
2010	Virginia Regional	Website Award
2009	NASA VCU Regional
2008	NASA / VCU Regional	Woodie Flowers Award (Mr James Lehman, Team 540)
2007	Galileo Division
2007	NASA / VCU Regional	Regional Winner
2006	Curie Division
2006	NASA / VCU Regional
2005	NASA / VCU Regional
2004	NASA / VCU Regional
2003	NASA / VCU Regional
2002	Newton Division
2002	NASA Langley / VCU Regional
2001	NASA Langley Regional