Hauser Hoedown

Agenda

Date

Saturday,  December 12, 2026

Location 

L.J. Hauser Junior High School

65 Woodside Rd. Riverside, IL 60546

Schedule

7:00 am  --  Doors Open

7:15 am - 8:00 am  --  Inspection

8:00 am  --  Driver's Meeting

8:15 am - 11:30 am  --  Qualifying Matches

11:30am  - 12:00pm  --  Event Conclusion and Clean-up

Note that this is a live event and actual times may vary slightly.

Event Details

1. All Team Compete

2. No Spectators

3. Parking in the back (enter off of Akenside Rd. east of the school). 

4. Enter in Door "L". Students report to the cafeteria for check in and build. Snacks/doughnuts allowed.

5. Pit area will be in the cafeteria and the fields will be upstairs in the gym as usual. 

6. Please have your families drop off students in the back of Hauser (off of Akenside Rd).  

7. Students and coaches should only enter through door L. Do NOT attempt to enter through door K (the cafeteria). Thank you!

8. To help speed up inspection, please cover inspection expectations with your team this week. 

9. For the first competition, inspection always takes forever because students are not prepared. 

10. Please prepare them so we can get started with the day. 

11. When kids are not ready for inspection, it delays the whole competition. 

12. No Concessions, Bring snacks, donuts, water or other drinks

13. Wifi can be challenging. We recommend students use hot spots if they have them. 

14. We will be running two fields to speed up the competitions this year. Please prepare your students for this change. 

15. We will make announcements for students to contact home as we get towards the conclusion of the event.

Volunteer

If you'd like to help out, please reach out to Anna Kinnaman @ [email protected]

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

In the event of bad weather, the event will be cancelled.  Due to the nature of the season, it will not be made up.

Refund and Payment Policies

If the Event Partner cancels the event: 

Does not apply, this is a free event. 

If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend:

Does not apply, this is a free event. 

Judging Format

Please review the following Judging Format options and keep the ones that apply to your event, and delete the others that do not apply.

• No Judging

• 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.

•  All Remote Judging - The Initial Team Interviews will be conducted remotely, and Engineering Notebooks will be submitted to judges digitally via a link found within the "My Account" panel of the team contact.  Initial Interviews and Notebook submission deadlines may be scheduled ahead of the event date.

• Remote Initial Team Interviews / In-Person Engineering Notebooks: Initial Team Interviews will be conducted remotely, possibly before the date of the event. Engineering Notebooks will still be submitted in person the day of the event to be evaluated by judges.

•  Digital Engineering Notebook Submissions / In-Person Team Interviews: Team interviews will be conducted in-person at the event. Engineering notebooks will be submitted digitally for evaluation via a link found within the "My Account" panel of the team contact. A submission deadline that may be scheduled ahead of the event date.

Waitlist

0 teams are on the waitlist for this event.