VEX Robotics Competition (VRC)

Step 1: Visit RobotEvents and register your team. ($75)
Step 2: Once RobotEvents has received payment from Step 1, visit this link to register for the UNO event and/or visit this link to register for the LA Tech event. Each event is $30.

Details about this year's game: Sack Attack

Red Stick Robotics hosted a competition at Louisiana Tech University on 1/19/2013 and hosted a competition at the University of New Orleans on 2/16/2013.

Congratulations to the teams who completed in the
Red Stick Robotics' Louisiana Tech VEX Competition of Sack Attach

We had a great showing of teams from all over Louisiana as well as out
of state teams for the first ever Louisiana VEX competition. This competition
was called "Sack Attack." 

The VEX Sack Attack is played on a 12' X 12' square field where alliances - one "red" and one "blue" composed of two teams each compete in matches consisting of a fifteen second autonomous period
followed by one minute and forty-five seconds of driver-controlled play.

The object of the game is to attain a higher score than the opposing alliance by scoring sacks and bonus sacks in your colored floor goals, troughs and high goal and by having the most robots of your color parked at the end of the match.

The Excellence Award, which is the top all around team on both robot performance and judged categories was awarded to team 6328 Team Robo Pound from Carroll High School in Monroe, La.  This team qualified to go on to compete in Anaheim, Ca at the VEX Robotics World Championship.

The Tournament Champions which is awarded to the teams on the winning alliance was awarded to 4436A the Catholic of Pointe Coupee Robotics Club from Catholic of Pointe Coupee School in New Roads, La and 1082D  the Extreme Engineering IV from the Exreme Engineering Club at Lovejoy High School in Lucas, Tx.

The Tournament Finalists which is awarded to the teams on the finalist alliance was awarded to 1082B Extreme Engineering II from the Exreme Engineering Club at Lovejoy High School in Lucas, Tx and 6328 Team
Robo Pound from Carroll High School in Monroe, La.

The Programming Skills winner was team 1082B Extreme Engineering II from the Exreme Engineering Club at Lovejoy High School in Lucas, Tx.

The Design Award was awarded to team 6328 Team Robo Pound from Carroll High School in Monroe, La as the team with a professional design approach.

Red Stick Robotics' would like to thank Dr. David Hall from Louisiana Tech and all of the volunteers who assisted with the competition.

Our next competition will be another VEX Sack Attack, held at the University of New Orleans on February 16,
2013.  The competition is open to the public as spectators and team registration is still available by following the information at the top of this page.

Red Stick Robotics qualified 2 teams to the South's BEST Robotics competition

Red Stick Robotics’ inaugural sponsorship of the NOLA BEST Robotics hub at UNO qualified Holy Cross School (New Orleans) and St. Scholastica Academy (Covington, LA) to compete with 57 other High Schools in the South’s BEST Robotics competition at Auburn University December 1st-2nd. Holy Cross School won several awards at the South's BEST Robotics competition. 

- 2nd place for the Robot Award
- 2nd place for the BEST Award
- 1st place for the Booth and Interview Award
-2nd Place for the Most Elegant Robot Award

Red Stick Robotics also sponsors the VEX Robotics competition for high schools. We are hosting two 
competitions in 2013. VEX competitions will be held at Louisiana Tech (Ruston, LA) on 1/19/2013 and at UNO on 2/16/13. The winner will qualify to compete with over 600 teams from 24 countries in Anaheim, CA in
April 2013! Registration for the VEX competition has just opened and High School Robotic Teams across the state are encouraged to register for one or both competitions.

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For more information, contact Annie Cagle at (225) 772-7652
acagle@redstickrobotics.org

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