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

7:30 am Doors open, pits open, inspection open
7:45 am Robot Skills begins for inspected teams
9:20 am Inspection close, Driver meeting, Match schedule released
9:35 am Audience welcome
9:40 am Qualifications, and Judging begin
11:50 pm Lunch
12:30 pm Qualifications, Skills, and Judging resume
2:40 pm Qualifications, Skills, and Judging end
2:50 pm Alliance selection 
3:00 pm Eliminations and Awards 
4:30 pm Event ends

Volunteer

These events are all volunteer run, please aim to lend one volunteer for each team you are registering.  Lots of opportunities big and small. Check out the RECF Volunteer Roles Overview for details. 

The hardest role to fill is typically Judge.  Be assured that technical backgrounds are useful but not required. Being a Judge is a great way to meet some of the students and understand the hard work they put in to produce their robots.

Please use this sign up to volunteer.
 

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

If bad weather was to occur, use your own descretion on attending the event.  If an event is cancelled and we are not able to reschedule the event we will refund your tournament fee minus the $5 which is paid to RECF on registration.

Refund and Payment Policies

If the event is canceled for weather or other reason, teams will be refunded their registration fee minus the $5 collected by RECF at payment.

Refunds will be given for team-initiated cancellations sent to [email protected] prior to the registration deadline listed above. The refund will be the registration fee minus the $5 collected by RECF at payment.

Any fee associated with the method of payment (such as a credit card surcharge) will not be refunded.

Teams that have not paid by the payment deadline listed above will be moved to the waitlist.  Those teams will not be eligible to participate in the tournament.

Health and Safety Policies

The event will follow AISD health and safety guidelines.

Date: 7-Dec-2024

Travel Info

Parking at McCallum is broken into several small lots.  The image below shows the best options for parking as well as the event entrance location.  Although there are a handful of spots on the drop-off loop, parking on the west side of Sunshine (A) is your next best option.  The lot accross the street (B) belongs to McCallum, and the faculty lot (C) to the north is also a good option.

The entrance is accessible, and the venue is the cafeteria (V).

Webcast

The event will be live streamed at the McCallum Robotics YouTube Channel. 

Judging Format

In-Person Judging - The Team Interviews and Engineering Notebooks will be judged in-person the day of the event. Teams must bring a physical copy of their notebook to submit to the judges. Digital notebooks will not be reviewed.

Venue Plan

Waitlist

4 teams are on the waitlist for this event.