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

7:30AM - Team Check-In, Inspection, Pit Setup

9:00AM - Event Meeting/Opening Ceremonies

9:15AM-12:00PM - Qualification Matches, Robot Skills Challenge Matches, Judging

12:00PM-12:45PM - Lunch Break

12:45PM-3:30PM - Qualification Matches, Robot Skills Challenge Matches, Judging

3:30-4:00PM - Alliance Selection (V5RC)

4:00PM - 5:00PM - Eliminations, Finals, Awards

Volunteer

Volunteers needed

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

In certain areas this may be due to snow, hurricane, severe storms or other acts of nature. The Event Partner should always consider the health and safety of teams when deciding to hold an event when bad weather may become an issue. Be sure to include information on how you will contact teams if an event must be postponed.

Refund and Payment Policies

If the Event Partner cancels the event: Teams will be refunded minus 5.00 robot event fee.

If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event and then chooses to withdraw or not attend: There will be no refund 

Webcast

This tournament will be live streamed on YouTube

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.

• No Judging

• 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.

•  All Remote Judging - The Initial Team Interviews will be conducted remotely, and Engineering Notebooks will be submitted to judges digitally via a link found within the "My Account" panel of the team contact on RobotEvents.  Initial Interviews and Notebook submission deadlines may be scheduled ahead of the event date.

• Remote Initial Team Interviews / In-Person Engineering Notebooks: Initial Team Interviews will be conducted remotely, possibly before the date of the event. Engineering Notebooks will still be submitted in person the day of the event to be evaluated by 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.