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VEX IQ Robotics Competition - Cutting it Close - FRIDAY Contest

Elementary and Middle School IQ Teams

Date
10-Jan-2025 Add to Calendar
Event Code
RE-VIQRC-24-7780
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
29-Nov-2024 12:00 EST
Registration Deadline
3-Jan-2025 12:00 EST
Payment Deadline
3-Jan-2025 12:00 EST
Price
$65.00
This event is closed to registration because:
  • 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: 10-Jan-2025

Venue/Location:
Wallace State Community College
801 Main St NW
Hanceville, Alabama 35077
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

VEX IQ Tournament – Cutting It Close

January 10, 2025

8:00am

Doors Open/Pits open

8:15am

Check-In & Robot Inspection (Must be completed by 9:00 am)
Skills Field Opens (3 attempts per team for Driver Skills and 3 attempts per team for Robot (Programming) Skills, See note below)

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)

 

Awards Ceremony

4:20pm (T)

Pit Area closes / Clean up / Arena Breakdown

 

 

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, Thursday, January 9th 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: 

If the event is cancelled by the Event Partner no refunds will be awarded.

If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend:

If the Coach/Mentor completed registration for the event and does not attend or withdraws, no refund will be made. Registration fees can be reallocated to a different team from the same school that is added to the event (a substitution), but only one substitution can be made.

Webcast

This event will NOT be 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.
    • The deadline for digital notebook submission for this event is Monday, January 6th at noon, Central time.

  • Notebooks with a digital submission date/time stamp after this time will NOT be considered for judged awards. No exceptions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Waitlist

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