Skyrise VEX Robotics State Championship
LOCAL STUDENTS BATTLE THEIR BOTS FOR STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS AND BERTHS IN THE VEX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
WHAT: Middle and high school students from Greenville, Dallas Area, Austin, Cumby, Palestine, Winnsboro and Tyler will descend upon Greenville High School on Saturday, February 21, 2015 for the North Texas VEX Skyrise High School/Middle School Regional Championship. Sixty-one teams will come together for a non-stop, action-packed day of competition where they will battle against each other with robots created from the VEX Robotics Design System. Participants will square off in the game Skyrise developed by VEX Robotics, Inc. and the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation, leaders in educational and competitive robotics.
The North Texas VEX Skyrise Regional Championship is one of two Texas State Championship Tournaments supported by the REC Foundation and various national, regional and local sponsors. The competition season culminates each spring, with the top performing teams from local and state VEX Robotics Competitions competing against each other at the VEX Robotics World Championship which will be taking place at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, KY, April 15 – 18, 2015. At the World Championship, these exemplarily teams will have the opportunity to challenge their top-ranked peers from other countries around the world, including Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States of America.
COMPETING
SCHOOLS: Middle School Division
Utley Middle School Rockwall
Greenville Middle School Greenville
Heath Middle School Heath
SBD Robotics Rockwall
Mckamy Middle School Flower Mound
Chapel Hill Middle School Tyler
Hudson Middle School Sachse
Richardson West Junior High Richardson
High School Division
Ironwave Greenville
Richardson Berkner Richardson
Firebots Greenville
Flower Mound High School Flower Mound
ausTINCANs Austin
Omni Eagles Quinlan
SBD Robotics Rockwall & Royse City
Greenville High School Greenville
Sachse High School Sachse
Cumby High School Cumby
Fannindel ISD Ladonia
Carroll Senior High Southlake
Austin Academy for Excellence Garland
McKinney High School McKinney
Arlington High School Arlington
Palestine High School Palestine
The Mandarin Chinese School Arlington
Christian Home Educators Winnsboro
INTERVIEW / PHOTO
OPPORTUNITY: 1:1 interviews with students, event organizers and local sponsors will be available throughout the competition. Photos of VEX Robots and teams interacting with their unique custom robots will be available upon request.
WHERE: Greenville High School
3515 Lions Lair
Greenville, TX 75402
WHEN: Saturday, February 21, 2015
07:00 AM - Doors Open for Volunteer Check-in / Practice Fields Open
07:00 AM - 07:30 AM - Team Check-in, turn in Engineering Notebooks at Registration
07:00 AM - 08:30 AM - Robot Inspection -
(High School Teams Receive Priority Over Middle School Teams)
08:30 AM - 03:30 PM - Robot Skills and Programming Skills Challenge
09:00 AM – 11:30 AM Judging in the Pit Area
09:30 AM - 11:30 AM Judging Interviews
08:15 AM - Qualification Rounds Match List Run
08:30 AM - Opening Ceremony, Drivers and Coaches Meeting
09:45 AM - 12:00 PM - Qualification Rounds
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM – Lunch
12:15 PM – 3:00 PM- – Judging in the Pit Area and Judging Interviews
01:00 PM - 03:00 PM - Complete Qualification Rounds
03:30 PM - 03:45 PM - Alliance Selection
03:45 PM - 04:00 PM - Alliance Strategy Meeting
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM - Alliance Elimination Matches
05:30 PM - 06:00 - Awards and Closing Ceremony
CONTACT: NAME: Adrienne Emerson NAME: Johnny Tharp
PHONE: (903) 457-3142 PHONE: (903) 408-4432
EMAIL: emersona@greenvilleisd.com EMAIL: tharpjr@greenvilleisd.com