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

Whether we finish qualifiation rounds before or after lunch will largely depend on how many teams sign up. This is subject to change. 

7:00 AM Doors open

7:30 AM Inspection begins

8:30 AM Inspections Close

8:45 AM Drivers Meeting

9:00 AM Competition and Judged Awards begins

12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch Break 

1:00 PM Alliance selection

1:30 PM Elimination rounds begin.

2:30 PM Tournament Concludes and Awards Ceremony begins.

3:00 PM Conclusion of Tournament

Volunteer

 If you are interested in helping at a robotics event or helping mentor a team please contact me. Some of the roles at an event are: set up, tear down, concessions, referees, judges, running tournament software and MC. If you would like to help at this event or future events contact the event partner. Some of these roles do require training before the event.

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

If the weather gets bad enough that the minimum number of teams won't be able to make it then we will cancel the event. If your team has decided not to attend due to weather please contact Zack Helgesen on the phone number listed for day of event immediately.

Refund and Payment Policies

If the Event Partner cancels the event: A refund will be given. 

If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend: Refunds may be requested up to 7 days prior to the event. The event partner reserves the right to issue refunds on a case by case basis to teams requesting them under 7 days prior to the event based on extenuating circumstances, but this is not guaranteed. 

$5 will be subtracted from all refunds to cover the RECF's per team fee. 

Health and Safety Policies

Use common sense in deciding if you are too sick to attend. If, in your judgement, you are "too sick to go to school" then you are probably too sick to go to a robotics tournament. 

Webcast

We will try to run sound for the webcast, but sometimes youtube shuts it down due to copyrighted material. 

https://www.youtube.com/@maizerobotics/streams

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.