Agenda

Friday, January 22, 2027

7:30 am Doors Open, Team Check-in
7:45 - 8:30 Team Inspections
8:45 - 9:00 Opening Remarks
9:15 - 9:30 Drivers Meeting
9:30 - 12:00 Qualifying Matches
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch
12:45 - 3:00 Interviews and Skills

Saturday, January 23, 2027

7:30 am Doors open, Team check-in
8:00 - 9:30 Complete Qualification Matches & Skills
9:30 - 10:00 Alliance Practice
10:00 - 10:45 Finals Matches
11:00 - 11:30 Lunch
11:45 - 12:15 Skills open
12:30 - 1:00 Presentations
1:00 - 2:00 Awards

Skills include:

Up to 3 attempts at Driving Skills

Up to 3 attempts with Autonomous 

Cultural Display and Sharing:

We desire for Native American teams to learn more about each other's culture.  Teams are encouraged to wear traditional attire and display the following to feature their community's culture.

Team introductions: Please send a one powerpoint slide with the following for for your team introduction

• Team picture
• Team name
• Team number
• School
• Town/City/State
• Tribe

Cultural Poster: Each team will complete a poster that will be hung in the back of the team pit area. The poster should be 3 feet by 4 feet (you can use standard butcher paper or poster board) and include the following: 

• VEX Team Number: 
• School Name and Location:  A picture would be great.
• Tribal Seal: Depiction or explanation of the tribal seal(s).
• Traditional Language: How to say “Hello” or “Welcome”  in your tribal language.
• Traditional Food: Tell about a food that is traditional for your culture.
• Historical Fact: At least one interesting historical fact about your tribe(s).
• Cultural Artifact: Depiction or picture of a material item associated with your tribe(s).

Traditional Dress: Teams are encouraged to wear traditional dress to the social gathering and throughout the competition, Friday and Saturday. 

Freiwilliger

If you'd like to help, please contact:

Trish Miller, [email protected], 928-867-8269
Catalina Carrillo, [email protected], 928-933-2957

Notfall-/Schlechtwetterrichtlinie

The event will continue unless an emergency occurs.  If an emergency disallows the event to proceed on the scheduled date, other dates may be considered; however, likely it would be cancelled.  With it being indoors and limited travel required, there should not be an issue with weather.

Rückerstattungs- und Zahlungsrichtlinien

If the Event Partner cancels the event: Refunds will be issued in the case of an event cancellation.

If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend: Please only register robot teams that intend to attend. Due to the limited space for events, we will not issue a refund for any other reason.

Datum: 22-Jan-2027 - 23-Jan-2027

Reiseinformationen

The tournament will take place on Friday, January 22nd, and on Saturday, January 23rd, and will be hosted at the Chief Alchesay Activity Center in Whiteriver, AZ. 

Whiteriver is 25 miles south of Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona.  Show Low is immediately North of Pinetop-Lakeside.  Whiteriver is at 5164 ft elevation and Pinetop at 6, 804.  It is a very scenic drive between the two.

If you have any questions concerning travel or lodging, please contact Trish Miller, [email protected], 928-867-8269.

Bewertungsformat

• 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.

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