General Info

Welcome to the Critical Ops Aerial Drone Competition in Northeast Ohio! We are located in Westlake, Ohio - just west of Cleveland. We hope that you will join us for a fun day of competition. The tournament will occur at the Cuyahoga Community College - Advanced Technology Training Center (ATTC). Here are a few logistical notes:

• The address is 3409 Woodland Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115. 
• Safety Glasses are required.
• Digital Competition Logbooks or scanned copies of physical logbooks need to be uploaded on Robot Events by March 1st by 5pm. 
• We will try to get some food trucks and concessions on-site.  

If you have further questions, please reach out to Scott Ross via [email protected].  We will contact you with further information as we get closer to the event. Happy flying!

North Central Region

• This event is located in the North Central Region which includes:

  USA: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin 

  Canada: Manitoba, Ontario, Nunavut

  Please note: Only teams that are a part of the North Central Region are eligible to earn invitations to Regional Championships from this event. If your team is from outside this region, you may attend the event and will be eligible to earn awards and post scores to the global skills rankings, but will not be eligible to qualify for a Regional Championship from this event.

• Teams who are from the North Central Region and earn a qualifying award at this event will be invited to the North Central Regional Championship. To read more about the qualifying criteria, visit the REC Library: Qualifying Criteria.

Please note: If you are a team from outside this region, you may attend the event and will be eligible to earn awards and post scores to the global skills rankings, but you are not eligible to earn invitations to regional championships from this event.

Grade Level: All

Skills Challenge Offered: Yes

Judging Format: All In-Person Judging