2015-16 Season Now Open!
The REC Foundation is pleased to share information about the new season and this year’s new games, VEX IQ Challenge Bank Shot and VEX Robotics Competition Nothing But Net! New documents and season planning information is added each week, so please check in often for the materials you need at www.RoboticsEducation.org and be sure to register your team today at www.RobotEvents.com!
Chevron, FUTURE Foundation, Robomatter, & Texas Instruments Scholarships Awarded!
Please join the REC Foundation in congratulating the following students on their scholarship awards. Chevron Scholarship Recipients: Nicholas Capdevila, VEX Robotics Competition Team 9983 and FIRST Team 3309, from Servite High School in California and Daniel Jacintho, VEX Robotics Competition Team 2443 and FIRST Team 2443, from Maui High School in Hawaii. F.U.T.U.R.E. Foundation Scholarship Recipients: Yoshio Yoshizumi, VEX Robotics Competition Team 359A; Rachael Putman, VEX Robotics Competition Team 7232/7232B, and Catlain Melendez, VEX Robotics Competition Team 6242. Robomatter Scholarship Recipient: Max Farr, VEX Robotics Competition Team 21, from CHAMPS Charter High School in California. Texas Instruments Scholarship Recipients: Joshua Osborne, FIRST Robotics Team 3468, from West Monroe High School in Louisiana and Evan Murphy, VEX Robotics Competition Team 5139, Jay M. Robinson High School in North Carolina.
**Transitioning your VEX program team coach soon? **
Transitioning your VEX program team coach soon? Would you like to keep your team number and identity the same as last season? Here is how to accomplish this.
If your outgoing coach is still available, simply have the current coach log into their RobotEvents.com account and list the new coach as the “Primary Contact” with all appropriate contact information. This will allow the new coach (once they have created their own RobotEvents.com account) to take ownership of the teams’ account.
If outgoing coach is no longer available, contact your REC Foundation Regional Support Manager (find them here: http://www.robotevents.com/support) so they can assist you with entering the new coach’s contact information into each of the teams’ accounts.
We hope this tip saves time and effort as you begin your next season of competitive robotics. Thank you!
Sponsor Spotlight: Louisville Showcase
The Louisville business community showed up in a big way to support the 2015 VEX Robotics World Championship in April. The REC Foundation would like to take a moment to thank them for sponsoring, exhibiting, volunteering, and making us feel right at home in Kentucky.
Ford Motor Company
GE Appliances
GlowTouch Technologies
Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky
UPS
University of Louisville, Speed School of Engineering
Save the Date: VEX Worlds 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky
Mark your calendars today and save the date for VEX Worlds 2016 which will once again take place in Louisville, Kentucky, on April 20-23, 2016. The REC Foundation looks forward to seeing everyone there!
**The REC Foundation’s Mission Statement **
The REC Foundation seeks to increase student interest and involvement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by engaging students in hands-on, sustainable, and affordable curriculum-based robotics engineering programs across the U.S. and internationally. For more information, visit www.roboticseducation.org.
Past E-Mails Available
Archives of all email blasts from this season can always be found here.
Not Getting These E-mails?
Many organizations automatically block group e-mails. You have two options:
- Request that your IT department “White List” emails from mail.vresp.comand/or white list e-mails from the following IP addresses: 74.116.89.0/24 74.116.91.0/24 66.151.143.0/24
- Make sure the alternate email address in your robotevents.com – http://robotevents.com/ team account is different – not a school address.
REC Foundation
P.O. Box 8276
Greenville, Texas 75404
US