Caston Cobweb Classic VEX IQ Robotics Competition
Level Up Competition Elementary and Middle School Teams
- Encontro
- 17-Oct-2026 Adicionar ao calendário
- Código do Evento
- VE-IQ-26-65598
- Programa
- VEX IQ Robotics Competition™
- Tipo de Evento
- Open Tournament
- Formato do Evento
- In-Person
- Sistema de Controle
- N/A
- Capacidade
- 40
- Lugares abertos
- 50%+
- Região do Evento
- Indiana
- Registros máximos por organização
- 10
- Abertura das Inscrições Prioritárias
- 2-Sep-2026 12:00 EDT
- O período de inscrição padrão está aberto.
- 16-Sep-2026 12:00 EDT
- Prazo de inscrição
- 14-Oct-2026 12:00 EDT
- Prazo de pagamento
- October 3, 2026
- Quantidade
- US$60.00
Informações Gerais
Dust Off the Cobwebs — It's Time to Level Up!
Get your season started at one of the first competitions in the state! Join us at Caston for an exciting day of robotics and a chance to see how your robot performs early in the season.
This is a Blended VEX IQ competition, and we'll also be hosting a Blended VEX V5 competition in the same gym at the same time! If your organization has both IQ and V5 teams, bring them all and make a day of it!
Location
Caston is located between Rochester and Logansport, Indiana, on State Road 25, approximately 3 miles south of Fulton on the Cass/Fulton County line.
Please plan ahead for meals. There are no restaurants immediately near the school; Rochester and Logansport are both approximately 12 miles away. The town of Fulton has a mini-mart/gas station and Dollar General.
Food & Concessions
A concession stand will be available throughout the competition, but lunch options will be limited. Please see the Image Gallery for the concession stand menu.
This year, we are also offering pizza by preorder for $15. Pizza will ONLY be available by preorder, so teams wishing to order pizza for lunch must complete the form in advance.
We are working on additional lunch options and will share that information with registered coaches once plans are finalized.
Preorder Lunch Form:
https://forms.gle/UBFWf4aRwHFXMXQk8
Halloween Fun!
Since the Cobweb Classic is just before Halloween, coaches and teams are encouraged to come in costume!
Have some fun with it—individual costumes, matching team costumes, or a full-team theme are all welcome.
An award will be presented to the team with the best costume!
Costumes should still allow team members to safely compete, work on robots, and move throughout the venue.
Nível de Avaliação: TODOS
Desafio de Habilidades Oferecidas: sim
Formato de Julgamento: Todos os Julgamentos em Pessoa
Datas dos Eventos & Locais
Encontro: 17-Oct-2026
Vencimento/Localização:9815 Indiana 25
Rochester, Indiana 46975
United States
Contate o Parceiro do Evento
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Our schedule for the day is approximately as follows:
8:00am - Doors Open
8:00-9:00am - Team Check In
8:00-9:15am - Inspection (Drop off Engineering Notebooks at Inspection. No Digital Notebooks or Thumbdrives will be accepted) / All fields open for teams to practice if they have passed inspection.
9:20am - Coaches Meeting
9:40am - Opening Ceremonies (Please note. We will do the Drivers Meeting for V5 first starting at 9:30, please seat your teams during this, then the National Anthem, dismiss V5, and then Drivers Meeting for IQ)
9:55am - Qualification Schedules Distributed - Skills Fields open / Practice
10:00am - 12:30pm - Morning Qualification Matches / Skills Open
12:30pm-1:00pm - Skills Fields Closed / Lunch Break
1-3:00pm - Skills open / Afternoon Qualification Matches
3:00 approximately - Skills Closed (after last qualifying match)
3:15pm - Finals matches and Awards
4:00pm - Pack up and Depart. Have a safe trip home!
**All times are EASTERN and are subject to change based upon how many teams we have competing**
Voluntário
Volunteers are welcome and needed!!
Please contact Jamie Taylor at [email protected] or 574-653-1782 for more information.
Política de Emergência/Condições Climáticas Adversas
Inclement Weather Policy
We are not planning to have bad weather on competition day. Unfortunately, Indiana weather was not consulted when we made the schedule and has been known to do whatever it wants!
Our goal will always be to hold the competition on the scheduled date whenever it is safe to do so. If morning travel conditions are poor, we may institute a two-hour delay to give road crews, the fog, and Mother Nature a little extra time to get themselves together. We realize this may mean a later start and a later end to the day, but we'd much rather have a long day of robotics than no robotics at all!
If conditions make it unsafe or impossible to hold the tournament as scheduled, we will make every reasonable effort to reschedule the competition for another date before canceling the event entirely.
If the tournament ultimately cannot be held due to inclement weather and a replacement date is not possible, registration fees will be refunded, minus $5.00 for administrative fees and postage.
Please watch for communication from the event organizers if questionable weather is in the forecast. Until then, we'll be hoping Indiana saves the snow, ice, freezing rain, thunderstorms, fog, 60-degree temperature swings, and whatever else it has planned for another day!
Políticas de reembolso e pagamento
Payment Deadline is October 3, 2026.
UNPAID TEAMS WILL BE MOVED TO THE WAITLIST ON THIS DATE AND TEAMS ON THE WAITLIST WILL BE MOVED INTO THE COMPETITION. IF THIS IS AN ISSUE FOR YOUR TEAM CONTACT US BEFORE THIS DATE TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS.
Registration fees will not be refunded if teams do not cancel by 10/07/2026.
All teams need to be present and checked in prior to the start of the competition (no later than 9:00am). Refunds will not be issued to teams who arrive after competition rounds have begun.
If the Event Partner cancels the event:
In the event that this tournament cannot take place and is forced to be canceled teams will receive a full refund minus $5 fee.
If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend:
If prior to 10/03/2026 full refund will be givien minus $5 fee. If after 10/07/2026 no refunds will be given.
Encontro: 17-Oct-2026
Caston High School9815 Indiana 25
Rochester, Indiana 46975
United States
Informações de viagem
Traveling from a distance? There is a Home2 Suites by Hilton and a Holiday Inn located in Logansport. Both will be about a 25 minute drive to Caston. There are also a few Airbnb's in the area too.
Webcast
We will make every effort to broadcast the event on our Caston Robotics YouTube page. Link will be provided at a later date.
Formato de Julgamento
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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