WFA Annual Meeting 2016
Below is a list of men and women, educators and technical experts who have been awarded the Woodie Flowers Award at the FIRST Championships. Each winner actively serves on the WFA judging committee, electing the WFFA winners from the student-nominated essays. All of these FIRST mentors have been involved with the program for many years, averaging over 15 years per person in volunteer years served. All of these mentors have created huge impacts on the FIRST community, and each has a web page describing their efforts, impact, and current activities.
- 1996: Dr. Woodie Flowers
- 1997: Elizabeth Calef, FRC team 88
- 1998: Michael Bastoni, FRC team 23
- 1999: Ken Patton, FRC teams 51, 65
- 2000: Kyle Hughes, FRC team 27
- 2001: Bill Beatty, FRC team 71
- 2002: Dave Verbrugge, FRC team 67
- 2003: Andy Baker, FRC teams 3940, 45
- 2004: Dave Kelso, FRC team 131
- 2005: Paul Copioli, FRC team 3310, 217
- 2006: Rob Mainieri, FRC teams 2735, 812, 64
- 2007: Dan Green, FRC team 111
- 2008: Mark Breadner, FRC team 188
- 2009: John Novak, FRC team 16
- 2010: Chris Fultz, FRC team 234
- 2011: John Larock, FRC team 365
- 2012: Dr. Earl Scime, FRC team 2614
- 2013: Fredi Lajvardi, FRC team 842
- 2014: Lane Matheson, FRC team 932
- 2015: Mark Lawrence, FRC team 1816
- 2016: Eric Stokely, FRC team 360
