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 TEAMS must check in with the event partner / scoring table by-9:30AM so that we can accurately print the tournament match schedule.  Please plan on arriving early to get through the inspection process and be prepared to begin on-time.  Coaches-- If you are delayed arriving the morning of the tournament, please call and let us know.  

8:00 Doors open, registration open, pits open, inspection starts
8:45 Practice matches
9:30 All teams must be checked in followed by 9:45 event meeting!
10:00 Qualifications, skills challenges and judging
12:00 Lunch (*)
1:00 Qualifications, skills challenges, and judging
3:00 Qualifications end, skills challenges end
3:15 Alliance selection
3:45 Eliminations
5:00 Awards

* depending on how "on-time" we start, match cycle times, etc., we may optionally run through lunch.  Please be flexible and able to break for lunch or run through it, as conditions outside of our control often dictate one vs the other.

Volunteer

We would love to have volunteers help with our event, even if you have no experience with VEX Robotics Competitions.  We can train you if you are interested.  We need judges to score matches, interview teams, score engineering notebooks, an MC to announce the competitions, and others to help manage the match.  If interested in volunteering, please contact Mr. Call at [email protected]. Thank you.

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

If your team is delayed or cannot attend the event due to an emergency, please contact Ron Call. In the event there is inclement weather, please check the event General Information for updates or email Ron Call at [email protected].

Refund and Payment Policies

If the Event Partner cancels the event: 

Checks for refunds will be issued to registered teams.

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

No refunds of registration fees will be issued.

Judging Format

In-Person Judging with Remote Engineering Notebooks- The Team Interviews will be judged in-person the day of 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 by December 7th.

Waitlist

1 teams are on the waitlist for this event.