Robotics Education & Competition Foundation
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Bowness Robotics VRC Over Under Tournament HS In Person Judging and skills

Date
9-Dec-2023 Add to Calendar
Event Code
RE-VRC-23-1751
Program
VEX V5 Robotics Competition
Event Type
Tournament
Event Format
In-Person
Field Control System
VEXNet Field Control
Capacity
16
Spots Open
0
Event Region
Alberta/Saskatchewan
Standard Registration Opens
1-Oct-2023 11:00 EDT
Registration Deadline
2-Dec-2023 18:00 EST
Payment Deadline
1-Dec-2023 14:07 EST
Price
CA$70.00
This event is closed to registration because:
  • This event currently has no spaces available.
  • It is past the registration deadline.

General Info

The Bowness Robotics Tournament event will be held in the main gym at Bowness High School, in Calgary.

There is room for 16 teams and will have a competition field, skills field and practice field. 

The bleachers will be available for spectators to view the fields and pit areas will be set up within the gym.

All teams are scheduled to have at least 6 qualification matches.  Elimination rounds will consist of 8 alliances of 2 teams.  Each team is guaranteed 3 programming & 3 driver robot skills challenge attempts.


Grade Level: High School

Skills Challenge Offered: Yes

Judging Format: All In-Person Judging

Event Dates & Locations

Date: 9-Dec-2023

Venue/Location:
Bowness High School | Calgary Board of Education
4627 77 Street Northwest
Calgary, Alberta T3B 2N6
Canada

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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

A rough schedule follows, a detailed one will be released in September.

8:00am - Doors open, registration open, pits open
8:15am - Inspection starts
9:00am - Opening ceremonies and driver meeting
9:30am - 12:00 pm - Qualifications, skills challenges and judging begins
12:00pm - 12:45 pm - Lunch
12:45pm - 2:15 pm - Qualifications, skills challenges and judging continue
2:30pm - Alliance selection
2:45pm - Eliminations
4:00pm - Awards
4:30pm - Cleanup

Volunteer

If interested in judging, inspecting, refereeing, or scoring, please contact Breege at [email protected]

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

We will run this event in almost any weather as long as Bowness High School is open and even if many teams are unable to attend.

Refund and Payment Policies

If the Event Partner cancels the event: 

Full refunds will be provided to teams.

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

Bowness High School is unable to refund money to teams that are unable to attend.  We will arrange a credit toward the next tournament at Bowness High School if we are given two weeks notice.

Date: 9-Dec-2023
Bowness High School | Calgary Board of Education
4627 77 Street Northwest
Calgary, Alberta T3B 2N6
Canada

Travel Info

Closest hotels:

Four Points by Sheraton Hotel & Suites Calgary West

8220 Bowridge Crescent NW, Calgary, AB T3B 2V1

Sandman Hotel & Suites Calgary West

125 Bowridge Dr NW, Calgary, AB T3B 3R6

Tournament Location

Bowness High School

4627 77 St NW

Calgary, AB

T3B 2N6

1) Parking available in the south lot

2) Enter through the doors by the gym from the parking lot or the main doors (by the yellow pillars)

3) Proceed straight to the main gym for check in, following signs.

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.