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

Tentative Schedule

7:30 am Doors open, pits open, inspection open
8:00 am Robot Skills begins for inspected teams
9:00 am Inspection close, Driver meeting, Match schedule released
9:15 am Audience welcome
9:30 am Qualifications, Skills, and Judging begin
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Qualifications, Skills, and Judging Resume
2:30 pm Qualifications, Skills, and Judging end
2:45 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. 

Thanks to all our volunteers!

Volunteer sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4BACAC22A6F5C16-53893883-high

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 by the Event Planner and cannot be rescheduled:

• teams will be refunded their registration fee minus the $5 collected by RECF at payment

If the coach/sponsor cancels:

• 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.

Date: 14-Dec-2024

Travel Info

Lake Belton High School

9809 Farm To Market 2483

Temple, TX 76502

Specific Parking and travel information will be send out in early December.

Here is a map to help you find the correct entrance, as well as where you can park and/or drop off your students and robots.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tqpoVOMD_ITk3mktzkfOXp1-0LQnckMx/view

Webcast

https://youtube.com/live/xY9ZGRiZikY?feature=share

Judging Format

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.