Lion's Pride VEX IQ Robotics Competition
Elementary and Middle School Teams
- Date
- 7-Dec-2024 Add to Calendar
- Event Code
- RE-VIQRC-24-7772
- Program
- VEX IQ Robotics Competition
- Event Type
- Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control System
- N/A
- Capacity
- 40
- Spots Open
- 0
- Event Region
- Alabama
- Max Registrations per Organization
- 8
- Early-Bird Registration Opens
- 17-Sep-2024 12:00 EDT
- Standard Registration Opens
- 26-Oct-2024 12:00 EDT
- Registration Deadline
- 1-Dec-2024 12:00 EST
- Payment Deadline
- 2-Dec-2024 12:00 EST
- Price
- $65.00
- This event currently has no spaces available.
General Info
A coaches/advisors hospitality room will be available, but WILL NOT include a meal at lunch. Snacks, drinks and bottled water will be made available for coaches and advisors. Please help us keep student competitors in the contest/pit area. The hospitality room is for coaches, advisors and volunteers only.
Concessions will be available starting at 9:00 am.
Digital notebooks will be submitted utilizing the instructions in the "Judging Format" link on the left side of this page. Please note the deadline to submit the digital notebook is Tuesday, December 3d at noon Central time. Notebooks with a submission date/time stamp after the deadline specified will NOT be considered for judged awards and will not be reviewed. No exceptions.
We look forward to seeing you at this in-person event. We hope you are looking forward to a high intensity, fun-filled event.
Grade Level: All
Skills Challenge Offered: Yes
Judging Format: Remote Engineering Notebooks
Event Dates & Locations
Date: 7-Dec-2024
Venue/Location:801 Main St NE
Hanceville, Alabama 35077
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
VEX IQ Tournament – Lion's Pride Fall Tournament
December 7, 2024
8:00am |
Doors Open/Pits open |
8:15am |
Check-In & Robot Inspection (Must be completed by 9:00 am) Team Interviews begin at 8:30, after passing inspection |
9:00am |
Driver/Coaches Meeting |
9:15am |
Qualifying Matches Begin |
11:30am |
Lunch Break (Skills field will close for lunch) |
12:30pm |
Qualifying Matches Resume (Skills field reopens and will close at 2:30 pm or conclusion of qualifying matches) |
3:00pm (T) |
Finals Matches begin |
4:00pm (T)
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Awards Ceremony |
4:20pm (T) |
Pit Area closes / Clean up / Arena Breakdown
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This agenda is subject to change
The Robot Skills field(s) will be used only for Programming and Driver skills events and will open at 8:30 am.
Teams CANNOT conduct robot skills runs until AFTER passing inspection.
Do not use the skills fields for practice at any time (even during lunch).
Volunteer
Vex tournaments rely heavily on volunteers to make the events as cost-effective as possible and help keep the costs of hosting, and thus the cost of registration down for participating teams. If you would like to volunteer for positions for this event, please reach out to Mr. Terry Ayers at [email protected] or Mr. Jeremy Wilt at [email protected] no later than one week prior to the event so we will have time to assign you to a spot on the volunteer rotation.
Thank you for your willingness to make this event even better by volunteering to assist with the execution of this event.
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy
In the event of inclement weather this event will be cancelled. A final call on the cancellation will be made no later than noon, Friday December 6th and email will be sent to all registered teams at that time. No phone calls will be made. Please ensure that you have a primary and secondary point of contact for each team you represent in the event this plan must be initiated.
Please see the refund policy in the event of cancellation by the event partner.
Refund and Payment Policies
If the Event Partner cancels the event:
Refunds will not be awarded due to cancellation by the event partner.
If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend: No refunds will be awarded for this situation.
The coach/Mentor can request the funds be reallocated to another team from the same school as a substitution, but can only request one substitution per school.
Webcast
This event will NOT be webcasted (live-streamed).
Judging Format
Please review the following Judging Format options and keep the ones that apply to your event, and delete the others that do not apply. Please see the Remote Judging section of the Guide to Judging for more information.
- 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.
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Digital Engineering Notebook Submission deadline for this event is:
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Tuesday, December 3rd at noon, Central Time.
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Notebooks with a submission date/time stamp after this date WILL NOT be eligible for judged awards. No exceptions.
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Waitlist
30 teams are on the waitlist for this event.