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

All times listed are  CST (central standard time)

Agenda (subject to change)

 (7:00-7:30) CST Doors open Teams Check in and inspection

(7:45 CST)  Skills Open 

(8:00-8:45 CST) Inspection, Final registration

(8:45-9:00 CST) Drivers Meeting in Gym, Announcements, Pledge of Allegiance

 (9:00-11:30 CST) Qualification matches

(11:30-12:30 CST ) Lunch Break, Concessions available, Skills closed for lunch

(12:30-2:30 CST) Qualification matches

 (2:45-?CST) Finals Matches (Top 12 teams go to finals)

(3:00 CST) Announce Skills Winners and tournament winners

Volunteer

Volunteers are awlays welcome!  If you would like to volunteers, please reach out to Mr. Lawalin at [email protected].  

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

If the tournament is cancelled due to bad weather, we will refund the registration fee minus the $5.00 for  VEX charges.  You will be notified the night before if we have to cancel.

If the tournament is held and you cannot come for some reason, refunds will not be issued.

Refund and Payment Policies

If the Event Partner cancels the event: 

refunds wil be issued back to each school as soon as possible.  

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

No refunds wil be issued if a team chooses not to participate.  

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.

• All In-Person Judging - The Team Interviews and Engineering Notebooks will be judged in-person the day of the event. Teams should bring a physical copy of their notebook to submit to the judges.
•  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. A submission deadline that may be scheduled ahead of the event date.

Waitlist

2 teams are on the waitlist for this event.