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VIQRC is a Student-centered program. Adults should not make decisions about the Team’s/Robot’s build, design, coding, documentation, or gameplay, and should not provide an unfair advantage by providing ‘help’ that is beyond the Students’ independent abilities. Students must be prepared to demonstrate an active understanding of their design, Robot construction, programming, notebook, and strategies to judges or event staff. Students should build, design, and code the Robot with minimal Adult involvement. If a Team has an engineering notebook, the format, layout, and contents should be created and maintained by Students with minimal Adult involvement; Adults should not transcribe or type notebook entries or code for Students. Some amount of Adult mentorship, teaching, and/or guidance is an expected and encouraged facet of VEX competitions. No one is born an expert in robotics! However, obstacles should always be viewed as teaching opportunities, not problems for an Adult to solve for the Team.

When building or designing the Robot, it is…
• Okay for an Adult to help a Student consider why something failed, so it can be improved.
• Not okay for an Adult to provide step by step instructions or photos for the Student to copy. When a mechanism falls off, it is…
• Okay for an Adult to help a Student consider why it failed, so it can be improved.
• Not okay for an Adult to investigate or put the Robot back together. When a Team encounters a complex programming concept, it is…
• Okay for an Adult to guide a Student through a flowchart to understand its logic.
• Not okay for an Adult to write a premade command for that Student to copy/paste. During Match play, it is…
• Okay for an Adult to provide cheerful, positive encouragement as a spectator.
• Not okay for an Adult to shout step-by-step commands from the audience.

This rule has additional Violation notes. See Appendix D.

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