NUKEtown 2025 (HS/MS)
VEX V5 Robotics Competition High Stakes
- Date
- 25-Jan-2025 Add to Calendar
- Event Code
- RE-V5RC-24-6007
- Program
- VEX V5 Robotics Competition
- Event Type
- Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control System
- VEXNet Field Control
- Capacity
- 40
- Spots Open
- -
- Event Region
- Kentucky
- Max Registrations per Organization
- 10
- Early-Bird Registration Opens
- 4-Nov-2024 12:00 EST
- Standard Registration Opens
- 14-Dec-2024 12:00 EST
- Registration Deadline
- 11-Jan-2025 12:00 EST
- Payment Deadline
- 13-Jan-2025 17:00 EST
- Price
- $75.00
- Registration opens at a future date.
General Info
Welcome to NUKEtown 2025 VEX V5 Robotics Competition!
Hello Teams,
Thank you for signing up for our event. Please complete your payment before the event date.
Participant Release Form:
Participant Releases are Electronic must be submitted by January 17th. The link is the Document Tab
Notebooks:
If your team is submitting a notebook please have a digital version submitted on RobotEvents by January 14th.
Inspections:
Coaches, Please help speed up our inspection time in the morning of by checking your students robots prior to the day of the event and update the Firmware to the brain. Also, make sure students robots will only have one visible color for the license plate showing at a time. Inspection must include poly sheet diagram for the inspectors to ensure within limits. If anything is in question of legality please be able to prove that it is.
Team Meeting:
Our Head Referees and scorekeepers will be affiliated with the NUKE and WLDCT VEXU Robotics teams. Rest assured that they are well versed in the rules and highly passionate about the game. We encourage your teams to bring all your questions to the meeting and we will do our best to offer clarity.
Skills Field:
As soon as you have passed inspection your team may enter the skills field line. We will have the GPS CODE wrapped around the perimeter. Skills field will close promptly at the start of Elimination matches. Those running skills will be brought over the elimination matches to help referee.
Qualification Matches:
Our Goal is start matches at 9:00 AM. Each team will have at least 6 qualification matches.
Lunch:
We currently have a Lunch break scheduled for our awesome volunteers at 12-1pm, this is subject to change
Pizza Order TBD
Alliance Selection:
Our Goal is start this process around 3:00 PM.
Awards:
We will be awarding 4 Judged honors (Excellence, Design, Innovate and Judges) along with Tourney Champs, Tourney Finalists, and Skills Champion after the Finals. If we have enough Middle school teams sign up we will do a High School and Middle School Excellence award.
Thank you to all the teams for coming to this event and to all our amazing volunteers!
Thank you for attending and helping to support our team!
Any questions or comments: [email protected]
Grade Level: All
Skills Challenge Offered: Yes
Judging Format: Remote Engineering Notebooks
Event Dates & Locations
Date: 25-Jan-2025
Venue/Location:20 Kenton Drive
Highland Heights, Kentucky 41076
United States
Contact Information
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
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8:00 am |
Doors open and Inspection begins |
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8:10 am |
Skills runs can be done after inspection |
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8:45 am |
Opening Ceremony & Drivers meeting |
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9:00 am |
Qualifications begin |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
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1:00 pm |
Resume Qualification matches |
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3:00 pm |
Qualification matches/Robot skills runs end |
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3:15 pm |
Alliance Selection |
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4:30 pm |
Award ceremony |
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5:00 pm |
Event ends |
Volunteer
Volunteer Coordinator: Nathan Reed, [email protected]
Experience Level: No Previous experience is needed for most volunteer positions.
Time Commitment: You can register for an entire day, or just a portion of the day as your schedule permits for most positions.
Signup Sheet: Posted at a later date
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy
The event may be rescheduled in case of emergency/bad weather. Coaches will be contacted if issues arise.
Refund and Payment Policies
If the Event Partner cancels the event:
- All but 5.00 dollars will be returned to teams
If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend:
- Refunds will not be given to teams cancelling less than two weeks before the competition. Refunds will be sent out from the event to teams who cancel in due time. If teams registered and paid through robotevents we must receive the funds from robotevents first, this sometimes takes 3-6 months. Refund from robotevents will deduct 10%.
Date: 25-Jan-2025
NKU Student Union20 Kenton Drive
Highland Heights, Kentucky 41076
United States
Travel Info
Lodging Info:
Off of Exit 77(1.5 miles from campus)
- Hampton Inn & Suites Wilder
- Holiday Inn Express & Suites Cincinnati South - Wilder, an IHG Hotel
- Comfort Inn & Suites(Wilder)
Traveling from Louisville/Lexington:
Take I-71 North for Louisville or take I-75 North for Lexington
Merge I-71/75 North
Take Exit 185 onto I-275 East
Follow directions for traveling East on I-275
Traveling East on I-275 from Greater Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky Airport:
Take Exit 76 (Three Mile Road/Northern Kentucky University)
Turn right off of the exit on University Drive
Turn right at the the first stop light onto Kenton Drive.
Continue straight through campus.
Turn right into the Kenton Drive Parking Garage (Located directly across from the Student Union).
Traveling West on I-275:
Take Exit 74A (US Highway 27 - Alexandria)
Continue straight on US 27 South
Continue straight through the first light and turn right at the next traffic light onto Nunn Drive.
Enter the roundabout and veer right onto University Drive (First right turn off of the roundabout).
Turn left at the the first stop light onto Kenton Drive.
Continue straight through campus.
Turn right into the Kenton Drive Parking Garage (Located directly across from the Student Union).
For Unloading and Student drop off:
Drive past the first entrance for the parking garage when following above steps.
Once you pass under the pedestrian bridge from the parking garage take the first left.
This is a loop right outside the venue for unloading.
Webcast
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. A submission deadline that may be scheduled ahead of the event date.