LAUSD Northwest VEX IQ Middle School League at Mulholland Middle School

Date: 1-Nov-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
Event Code: RE-VIQC-19-8869
Program: VEX IQ Robotics Competition™
Event Type: League
Capacity: 32
Spots Open: 1
Event Region: California - South
Standard Registration Opens: 5-Aug-2019 04:00 EDT
Registration Deadline: 12-Nov-2019 20:00 EST
Price: $150.00

This event is closed to registration because:

It is past the registration deadline.

General Info

UPDATE: Final session moved to Friday, January 31, 2020

The first scheduled event on October 11 has been cancelled due to unsafe air quality from the Saddleback Fire . NOW November 1st is the 1st event and a NEW date of Thursday Nov 14th has been added as the 2nd event. (The other 2 dates, in December and January, remain unchanged.)

This league is primarily for teams from Middle schools in LAUSD Local District Northwest. This league will be meeting in the Multi-Purpose Room.

When you register for this league, please choose Pay Later as your Payment Method and bring a league fee check for $150 per team payable to Mulholland Robotics to the first league session

Each session begins with Team Check-in and Robot Inspection. Teams need to check in by 4:30 PM and robots need to pass inspection by 4:45 PM to be included in the Teamwork Challenge match schedule.

At Team Check for the first session, teams turn in release forms and league fee checks and sign up to provide one volunteer for at least one league session.

At the three Qualifying Sessions, each team will be scheduled in four Teamwork Challenge Qualifying Matches.

STEM Research Project videos are due by Friday, December 20, 2019, the last school day before the winter break. Submit a link to your YouTube or SchoolTube video at: https://forms.gle/47S8pdGuwXvCAASp7

At Team Check-in for the final Championship session in January, teams turn in Engineering Notebooks. Robot Skills Challenge Matches are not scheduled. Teams may participate in up to three Driving Skills Matches and up to three Programming Skills matches while Judges are reviewing Engineering Notebooks and interviewing teams. The Championship session concludes with Teamwork Challenge Finals Matches and Awards.

Teams need to provide at least one volunteer for at least one session. If we do not have enough volunteers, we may not be able to complete all scheduled matches. See the Volunteer tab for details.

We will have three competition fields and three practice fields at each session.

Food and beverages will be available for purchase

Grade Level: Middle School

Skills Challenge Offered: Yes

Event Dates & Locations

Date: 1-Nov-2019

Venue/Location:

Mulholland Middle School
17120 Vanowen Street
Los Angeles, California 91406
United States

Date: 14-Nov-2019

Venue/Location:

Mulholland Middle School
17120 Vanowen Street
Los Angeles, California 91406
United States

Date: 6-Dec-2019

Venue/Location:

Mulholland Middle School
17120 Vanowen Street
Los Angeles, California 91406
United States

Date: 31-Jan-2020

Venue/Location:

Mulholland Middle School
17120 Vanowen Street
Los Angeles, California 91406
United States

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Agenda

Agenda for the first three league sessions, the Qualifying Sessions:

3:00-4:00 PM Doors open. Set up
3:45-4:00 PM Volunteers check in
4:00-4:30 PM Teams check in
4:00-4:45 PM Robot Inspection
4:45-5:00 PM Opening Ceremony/Announcements
5:00-7:00 PM Teamwork Qualifying Matches
7:00-7:30 PM Teams depart. Tear down. Doors close

Agenda for the last league session, the Championship Session:

3:00-4:00 PM Doors open. Set up
3:45-4:00 PM Volunteers check in
4:00-4:30 PM Teams check in and turn in Engineering Notebooks
4:00-4:45 PM Robot Inspection
4:45-5:00 PM Opening Ceremony/Announcements
5:00-7:00 PM Judging and Robot Skills Matches
7:00-7:45 PM Teamwork Finals Matches and Awards
7:45-8:15 PM Teams depart. Tear down. Doors close

Volunteer

Teams will sign up to provide one adult volunteer for one of the first three sessions and for the final session. These volunteers will be scheduled at the first session.

Other volunteers are welcome. Please contact the Event Partner (Joel Domine, [email protected]).

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

Teams will sign up to provide one adult volunteer for one of the first three sessions and for the final session. These volunteers will be scheduled at the first session.

Other volunteers are welcome. Please contact the Event Partner (Joel Domine, [email protected]).

Refund and Payment Policies

Full refunds minus the $5.00 processing fee will be available until one week before the first session. After that, refunds based on special circumstances may be made at the discretion of the event partner.

STEM Research

This season the STEM Research Project is presented as a 4-minute video plus 15 seconds of credits that the team records and uploads to SchoolTube, YouTube, or a similar online video platform. A link to the video must be submitted by Friday, December 20, 2019, the last school day before the winter break. Follow these steps:

Please refer to the **STEM Research Project and Presentation** document from the REC Foundation. The document can be found in the VEX IQ Challenge Team Resources area at https://www.roboticseducation.org
Record the STEM Presentation as a video following the instructions in the STEM Research Project and Presentation document.
Upload the video to one of the online video resources following the instructions in the STEM Research Project and Presentation document.
Have the coach or another adult submit a link to your YouTube or SchoolTube video at:
https://forms.gle/47S8pdGuwXvCAASp7
Teams WILL NOT be interviewed by judges at the event, unless the event qualifies teams directly to VEX Worlds. Please refer to the STEM Research Project and Presentation document for details.
Only ONE submission allowed per team. If two or more video links are sent to the Event Partner, only the first link received will be considered.
The winner of the STEM Research Project Award will be announced with the other judged awards at the event.

If you have questions about this process, please contact [email protected].

REC Foundation Design Award Rubric

Participant Release Form Spanish

REC Foundation Code of Conduct

Criteria for registered VEX IQ Challenge teams (Elementary and Middle School) to qualify for participation in championship events.

VIQC Qualifying Criteria

A description of this year's STEM Research Project

STEM Research Project Topic (2019-2020)

A description of this year's STEM Research Project Rubric.

STEM Research Project Topic Rubric (2019-2020)

VIQC Sqaured Away One Page Description.

VIQC Sqaured Away One Page Description

VIQC Robot Inspection Checklist.

VIQC Robot Inspection Checklist

Participant Release Form English

Participant Release Form