New Year Bonanza--Winfield VEX IQ-ELEMENTARY (In-Person)

General Info

Winfield City Schools has commited to maintaining a high-quality tournament and enjoyable experience.  In order to accomplish this commitment, we have take the time to develop a COVID event plan of action.  We have worked with the RECF regional support manager, local health officials, and school system administrators to develop our plan of action.  Everyone's safety is our first goal. We will be running two events on Saturday, January 23rd.  We will host an elementary school event in the morning followed by a middle school in the afternoon.  We will be offering the Excellence Award, Teamwork Championship, Robot Skills, and Design Award for this event.  Enginering notebooks will be accepted virtually only.  Team interviews will be conducted remotely on-site the day of the event via webcam interview with our judges.  Robot Skills will be submitted virtually before the event.  In order to qualify for the Excellence Award, teams must submit the Engineering Notebook and Robot skills virtually before the event.  Teams that fail to meet the event requirements for the Excellence Award will not be considered for the award.

Below you will find some of the guidelines for the event which will be enforced on the day of the event:

Event Restrictions

• Tournaments are limited to no more than 16 teams.
• Teams are allowed only 4 participants per team.
• Teams are allowed two sponsosr per team.
• Teams are allowed 2 adults per team member to watch the event.
  • Siblings under 18 years of age will be granted access to the event.
• Pits are limited to only team sponsors.
• Mask/Face shields must be worn at all times while inside the facility. 
  • Exemptions will be given to those with special needs identified before the event.
  • Exemptions will be given to some event staff such as the announcer and other key positions.
  • Individuals that are exempted will be given wristbands or some other form of identification.
• There will be a temperature check for everyone that enters the facility at all times.  NO EXCLUSIONS APPLY.
  • Parents/guardians or team members who have a temperature of 100.3 or above, will be denied entry or the ability to compete in the event. 
  • If you leave the facility, you will have your temperature checked.
  • If a person has a fever of 100.3 or above at any time entering the facility entry will be denied.
• Fields will be reset by event staff only.
• All teams are required to bring a 100 ft extension cord so they can charge batteries at their stations.
• Teams will be provided two tables at their station this year.
• Teams will be allowed either 1 or 2 drivers during matches. 
• Each team will always need to stand in the designated driving zone for each field.
• Each team member will be required to fill out the COVID Questionnaire before the event.
• All participant release forms must be submitted online prior to the event.  No physical release form will not be allowed.
• NO REFUNDS FOR THE EVENT.
• Teams are prohibited from handshakes, high-fives or physical contact between attendees/ 
  • Teams will receive verbal reminders.

For a full list of event guidelines for the event, please look in the document upload for the COVID EVENT GUIDELINE

Engineering Notebook Submission

Attendee Questionaire

Grade Level: All

Skills Challenge Offered: Yes

Judging Format: All In-Person Judging