A New Way To Look At Impact
Welcome to Impact Perspectives: a 5985 mentoring program for any FRC team wanting to get better at the Impact Award – from a first time submitter to those with many Impact banners on their walls. We want to help your team answer the important questions about who they are, why they’re doing this, and what they might be missing.
Just to be clear, we’re not saying we’re better at Impact than your team – just that we see things differently! We offer insight beyond blind-spots or bias, and the international perspective a Hall Of Fame team from outside the USA.
The Impact Award is the most prestigious honour in the FIRST program. Teams are made stronger just by attempting it.
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The Program:The goal of “Impact Perspectives” is to conduct one or more review sessions where a team’s Impact submission is analysed by 5985. You can focus on a particular area or look at the complete package of Executive Summary, Essay, Presentation, Documentation, and Video. We will offer opinions on your approach and compare against FIA Guidelines.
YPP Note: All communication from 5985 will come through a shared email address monitored by several mentors. Both 5985 and the reviewed team should have a mentor present during meetings.
Our Perspective:5985 Project Bucephalus is a community FRC team from Wollongong, a regional city in Australia. At the 2025 FIRST Championships, Project Bucephalus won the Impact Award and entered the Hall of Fame. In their submission, the team described itself as: “From Wollongong, Project Bucephalus builds STEM into the heart of a Steel city – and reaches across the world. We fill classrooms with those that normally miss out. Why? Because that’s who we are. We are the under-represented and remote. The Refugees, Immigrants, and Aboriginal. The disabled and the dismissed. We are the misfits, the isolated, and the bullied. This opportunity changed our lives.” The 5985 perspective is built from the passionate work of students that comprise wildly diverse cultures, religions, academic backgrounds, genders and just about any human characteristic possible. Over 70% have a disability and 30% come from low-income backgrounds.
Our History:Driven by a vision of “Create Opportunity, Transform the Community”, Project Bucephalus has a powerful understanding of and history with the Impact Award:
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