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Arcadia 2024 Rapid Relay Kickoff Tournament Blended VIQRC ES/MS

CANCELLED

(Canceled)
Date
20-Oct-2024 Add to Calendar
Event Code
RE-VIQRC-24-6161
Program
VEX IQ Robotics Competition
Event Type
Tournament
Event Format
In-Person
Field Control System
N/A
Capacity
24
Spots Open
24
Event Region
California - South
Max Registrations per Organization
8
Standard Registration Opens
5-Aug-2024 20:00 EDT
Registration Deadline
30-Sep-2024 12:00 EDT
Payment Deadline
26-Sep-2024 12:00 EDT
Price
$100.00
This event is closed to registration because:
  • This event has been canceled.
  • It is past the registration deadline.

General Info

This event is put on by ROBOSTARS.  More details will be sent in your registration email and closer to the day of the event.

This event will have skills tournament and live judging.  We hope to have some practice fields for teams but if you need a field, please bring your own and we will do our best to fit as many as practice fields we can. EVERY team player who participates in the competition will receive a certificate of participation. 

Free lunch and snacks will be provided to ALL students, coaches, judges, and volunteers.  Free breakfast and refreshments are ONLY for judges and volunteers.

We hope you enjoy our event and are looking forward to hosting Southern California VEX teams. Good luck to every team this season.


Grade Level: All

Skills Challenge Offered: Yes

Judging Format: Remote Engineering Notebooks

Event Dates & Locations

Date: 20-Oct-2024

Venue/Location:
STAR INTERNATIONAL CENTER
ARCADIA, California 91007
United States

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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: 20-Oct-2024
STAR INTERNATIONAL CENTER
ARCADIA, California 91007
United States

Travel Info

Parking Instruction:

There are plenty of 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 October 15th, 2024. Initial Interviews will be on October 22nd-Oct 24th, 2024. Sign-up links for the initial interview will be sent via email around Oct 18th, 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

11 teams are on the waitlist for this event.

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