Sunburst "GirlPowered" Rapid Relay Blended Invitational
Invitational Tournament for GirlPowered Teams
- Date
- 8-Feb-2025 Add to Calendar
- Event Code
- RE-VIQRC-24-7603
- Program
- VEX IQ Robotics Competition
- Event Type
- Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person Invitational
- Field Control System
- N/A
- Capacity
- 30
- Spots Open
- 9
- Event Region
- Utah
- Max Registrations per Organization
- 4
- Standard Registration Opens
- 8-Oct-2024 20:00 EDT
- Registration Deadline
- 31-Jan-2025 12:00 EST
- Payment Deadline
- 3-Feb-2025 09:00 EST
- Price
- $50.00
- It is past the registration deadline.
General Info
Bring on the GirlPower!
Sunburst Elementary is excited to host a GirlPowered Invitational tournament for VIQRC GirlPowered teams!
We’d like to welcome 30 GirlPowered* teams to our school to compete in our GirlPowered Invitational. This will be a qualifier for the Utah State Championship!** If you would like to have your teams join us, please add them to the Waitlist and we will contact you to confirm!
Please note that we will NOT be accepting physical Engineering Notebooks for judging at this event. All notebook submissions should be submitted digitally no later than 3:00pm on Friday, January 31, 2025. No engineering notebooks will be judged on the day of the event.
*Girls must make up at least 50% of the team to be considered a GirlPowered team.
**Qualifying criteria must be met. Excellence Award will be awarded to one Elementary team and also one Middle School team, provided enough teams register.
Concessions will be available to purchase at the event. All proceeds from the concessions will go to our VEX Robotics program to support and grow our program. Cash, Venmo, and card are currently being accepted.
Grade Level: ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL
Skills Challenge Offered: Yes
Judging: In-Person Team Interviews / Remote Judging Engineering Notebooks
Morning Event:
- 8:00 am -8:30 am Tournament Set-up
- 8:00 am-8:50 am Team Set-up, Check-in, & Inspection
- 9:00 am-9:15 am Drivers Meeting
- 9:15 am-11:15am Teamwork Challenges
- 11:30 am -11:45 Finals Matches
- 11:45am-12:00 pm Awards
- 9:15 am-11:15 am Skills Challenges*/Judging**
*Each team will be allowed 3 skills runs for both Driver Skills and Autonomous Skills.
**Judging will include judging for the Excellence, Design, and Innovate Awards. Teams wanting to be eligible for these awards, must submit a link to their digital engineering notebook no later than 3:00pm on Friday, January 31, 2025.
If we have all teams checked in and inspected prior to 8:50, we will move the driver meeting up and begin the tournament and open Skills fields for competition.
Grade Level: All
Skills Challenge Offered: Yes
Judging Format: Remote Engineering Notebooks
Event Dates & Locations
Date: 8-Feb-2025
Venue/Location:2504 West Sunburst Drive
Layton, Utah 84041
United States
Contact the Event Partner
You must login to contact this Event PartnerCode 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
Morning Event:
- 8:00 am -8:30 am Tournament Set-up
- 8:00 am-8:50 am Team Set-up, Check-in, & Inspection
- 9:00 am-9:15 am Drivers Meeting
- 9:15 am-11:15am Teamwork Challenges
- 11:30 am -11:45 Finals Matches
- 11:45am-12:00 pm Awards
- 9:15 am-11:15 am Skills Challenges*/Judging**
*Each team will be allowed 3 skills runs for both Driver Skills and Autonomous Skills.
**Judging will include judging for the Excellence, Design, and Innovate Awards. Teams wanting to be eligible for these awards, must submit a link to their digital engineering notebook no later than 3:00pm on Friday, November 10, 2023.
If we have all teams checked in and inspected prior to 8:50, we will move the driver meeting up and begin the tournament and open Skills fields for competition.
Volunteer
Interested in volunteering for our event or know someone who is?
We LOVE our volunteers and could not host a tournament without them. We'd love to have all our volunteers at this tournament be wormen who are involved in STEM, teachers, and have a passion for seeing the number of girls in STEM growing! Please consider volunteering or invite someone you know to volunteer!
Please contact: Lisa Bodily at [email protected] and put VEXIQ Volunteer in the subject line.
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy
If weather makes traveling dangerous for teams, please stay home. If we must cancel the tournament due to dangerous weather situations, we will re-schedule if possible. As much notice due to inclement weather will be given as possible.
Refund and Payment Policies
If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend:
-Refunds are given on a case-by-case basis, minus the $5.00 non-refundable RobotEvents fee.
If the Event Partner cancels the event:
-Due to weather we will work to reschedule the event or transfer your registration to another event.
-Due to insufficient team registrations, we will transfer your registration to another event.
Judging Format
Digital Engineering Notebook Submissions / In Person Team Interviews:
Team interviews will be conducted in-person at the event.
Engineering notebooks will be submitted digitally for evaluation via a link found within the "My Account" panel of the team contact on RobotEvents. All submissions must be made by 3:00pm on Friday, January 31, 2025.