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

8:30 am Doors Open/ Team Check-In
8:30 am to 9:30 am Robot Inspection
8:30 am to 9:30 am Judge Interviews at Tables (only for top 30% teams from the initial online interviews)
8:30 am to 9:30 am Practice Field Open (2 teams on field for 10 mins- first come first serve)
9:30 am  Meeting & Opening Ceremony
10:00 am Qualifying Matches Begin
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Qualifying Matches Resume
3:00 pm Qualifying Matches End
3:15 pm Finals Matches Begin
3:45 pm Closing Ceremonies and Awards
4:30 pm Event Ends
4:30 pm to 5:00pm Clean Up

Volunteer

If you would like to volunteer during the competition, please email to [email protected].  It would be helpful if you would include in your email some volunteering activities that you would like to do. If you know of any engineers or STEM professionals, please have them contact us if they would like to help out in any way!

Help is always needed to quickly clean up at the end of a session so that EVERYONE can leave as early as possible.

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

Only in extreme circumstances will this event be canceled due to weather. In this circumstance, refunds will be made available minus any potential costs charged by the RobotEvents.com website. 

Refund and Payment Policies

Refunds will be issued up to 14 days prior to this event if a replacement team is available to fill the vacated spot. Refunds will not be issued after that except in the case of very extenuating circumstances at the event partners discretion. Please be aware that event partners have fixed costs and rely on team registrations to meet these obligations.

Failure to pay the registration fee before the payment deadline will result in the cancellation of registration.  The related team will be moved to the waitlist.

Date: 8-Dec-2024

Travel Info

Parking Instruction:

There are plenty of private parking spots behind the building.  Please make sure park your car there.  Thank you.

Judging Format

• The Initial Team Interviews will be conducted remotely, and Engineering Notebooks will be submitted to judges digitally via a link found within the "My Account" panel of the team contact on RobotEvents.  Notebook submission deadlines will be 6PM PST on Nov 15th, 2024. Initial Interviews will be on Dec 4-Dec 6, 2024. Sign-up links for the initial interview will be sent via email around Dec 1, 2024.
• Top 30% teams selected from the initial online interviews will have the follow up interview by judges in person on the event date.  

Waitlist

10 teams are on the waitlist for this event.