Code of Conduct

The REC Foundation considers the positive, respectful, and ethical conduct of teams to be an essential component of the competition. Participants are expected to behave in a respectful and professional manner, and to operate as student-centered teams with limited adult assistance. This includes all students, teachers, coaches, mentors, parents, and spectators associated with a team.

For more details, please refer to the REC Foundation Code of Conduct and Student-Centered Policy. If you have concerns about compliance with the Code of Conduct, please speak to the Event Partner during the event.

Agenda

Middle School Event 84 teams 

Thursday 2-6-2025

• Doors open 7:00 AM

• Inspection 7:15 AM - 9:30 AM

• Skills 8:00 AM - End of quals day two

  • Rotate skills refs for lunch starting at 11:30 - 1:30 ~ run two refs instead of 4 during this time

  • Judging will begin @ 8:30 AM and continue throughout the day

• Opening Ceremony 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

• Drivers Meeting 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

• Quals 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM

• Lunch 12:30PM - 1:30 PM 

  • Judges eat from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

• Quals 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  • Skills line closes at 6:00 PM

Friday 02-07-2025

• Doors open 7:30 AM

• Quals 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

  • Finish any last  judging from previous day

• Skills 8:00 AM until last match scored

• Alliance Selection 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

• Lunch 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

• Finals 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

• Awards 2:00 PM - 3:00PM

Voluntario

Volunteers are needed to host this signature event. If you are interested in filling a role please sign up using this link:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C44A4A628A3F94-49611106-bots

Order Volunteer Shirts using this link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDs9EbHyFI44gAGRQBZ6B06IFYTJpEzztmM59G4-HKI27-yA/viewform

Política de emergencia/mal tiempo

In the event of bad weather, updates will be made by email.

Refund and Payment Policies

If the Event Partner cancels the event: 

Refunds will only be made if the event is cancelled by the Event Partner (Margaret Trent). Refunds will not include the $5 processing fee assessed by Robot Events for processing.

If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend:

Registrations will not be refunded for teams that register but choose not to come.  Registrations will not be refunded once the event closes on Robot Events.

Webcast

Day One:

https://youtube.com/live/pw_ov-ctAWk?feature=share

Day Two:

https://youtube.com/live/5QfDTC5sJPo?feature=share

Judging Format

All In-Person Judging - The Team Interviews and Engineering Notebooks will be judged in-person the day of the event. Teams should bring a physical copy of their notebook to submit to the judges.

Payment

Teams who have not paid by the payment deadline of February 2, 2025 will be moved to the waitlist.

No refunds will be provided to payments already processed.

Signature Event Early Bird Policy

• All Signature Events will have a specific Early Bird Registration that is independent of all local/regional Early Bird systems
  • Each team starts the season with three (3) opportunities to register during the Signature Event Early-Bird period
    • An opportunity is taken away each time the team registers for a Signature Event, whether during the Signature Event Early-Bird period or Standard period
    • A Signature Event Early-Bird opportunity is not taken away if a team registers for a tournament hosted by their school or organization (where the team’s coach is the Event Partner)
  • Early Bird Registration will open 16 weeks before the event at 12:00PM EST
    • Note: Modifications to this may be made for events in August and September
  • Standard Registration will open 14 weeks before the event at 12:00PM EST
  • An Event Partner may register their own teams to their Signature Event during Signature Event Early Bird Registration no matter how many other Signature Events they are already registered for  
    • The Event Partner must be the Primary Contact for the teams they are registering