VEX IQ MS State Championship

Agenda

GM VEX IQ MS Michigan State Championship

Optional MS Robot Inspection Saturday 5pm - 6pm Robots may be inspected the evening before competiton

Agenda 2/26/2017

7:30 Building Opens for Volunteers

8:15 - 8:45 Teams Arrive - Turn in Notebook to Registration Desk, Registration delivers notebooks to Judge Deliberation Room.

8:15 - 9:45 Building Opens to teams, registration, set-up pits, inspection, practice fields, skills fields, STEM Appointments

8:30=9:45 Skills Fields Open - Must have passed inspection prior to participating in Skills. Returning referees use this time to train new referees.

8:30 Judges Meeting

8:45 - 9:45 STEM Appointments (4 rooms, 2 judges each, 15 minute time slots)   Queuers will time the STEM appointments and keep them to 8 minutes.  Allow 1 coach per team, they are not to talk / only to observe.

9:00 - 9:45 Design Judges Interview Teams in the pit area that do not have notebooks (2 judge teams, 15 minute appointments (10 minutes w/ students + deliberation time), 1 judge team = 3 appointments)1 Volunteer  Queuer Assigned to this team of judges.

9:00 - 9:45 Design Judges review notebooks in Judge deliberation room, use rubric to score the notebook 

9:50 Drivers Meeting: Including Introduction of Judges: each judge introduces themselves and where they are from / position

10:00 - 12:30 Teamwork Challenge Matches

10 - 10:30 Design judges get lists of teams they will interview, STEM judges deliberate on first 16 presentations.

10:30 - 12:30 STEM Appointments and Design Judging

12:30 - 1:00  Lunch

1:00 - 2:45 Teamwork Challenge Matches

1:00 - 2:30   Remaining Judging followed by Judge deliberations

2:45 - 2:55 Posting of top teamwork challenge alliances

3:00 - 3:45 Teamwork Finals

3:45 - 4:15 Awards

4:15 - 4:45  Clean Up

Volunteer

This year we will be welcoming volunteers from GM as well as Kettering University for our Design and STEM Awards. We will be utilizing an online system to recruit volunteers and welcome all interested parties. Thanks for your interest in volunteering in this years state championship. Please understand that our aim is to present a high quality event utilizing impartial, non-team affiliated adjudicators wherever possible. We will make every effort to place you in a fun and enjoyable role, but do reserve the right to all final volunteer selections. Here is the link, and thank you for your volunteer commitment.

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090f49a8aa2ba2fd0-gmvexiq1

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

In case of bad weather conditions or possible postponement please visit the event on events.vex.com where I will post updates about the event status as needed. Please feel free to contact me by phone if you are going to be late to the event. Match Lists will be generated as scheduled and cannot be re-run. In the event of severe or dangerous weather, the tournament will be rescheduled for the following Sunday.

Refund and Payment Policies

Refunds will be issued to teams that cancel their registration more than TWO weeks in advance of the event.   Refunds will be processed within one month of the cancellation.

Date: 26-Feb-2017

Travel Info

Charlotte Middle School

1068 Carlisle Highway

Charlotte, MI 48813

Please copy map link into browser for detailed information.
 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Charlotte+Middle+School/@42.5556987,-84.856486,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xfb03180edc4b98ba!8m2!3d42.5556987!4d-84.856486

STEM Registration and Appointments

This year we are asking that all teams sign up early for STEM adjudication. Please click on the link below:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090f49a8aa2ba2fd0-stem1