In Toss Up Appendix D, under “Excellence Award at the 2014 VEX Robotics World Championship”, one of the criteria is that teams need to have submitted at least two online challenges in order to be eligible. When I look at the VEX Robotics Essay Challenge, it says that it is an individual competition, not team or school. Just as clarification, could this be one of the minimum two online challenges required for eligibility for Excellence at Worlds?
Edit: I also had a question about the requirement of needing to have won the Excellence Award at a previous event. Does this include TSA events and non-State or World qualification events? Our team won Excellence at a local TSA District Competition, which wasn’t a qualifier for another event.
Yes, the VEX Robotics Essay Challenge may be used by a team as one of the two required online challenges to be eligible for the Excellence Award at the World Championship.
Yes, winning the Excellence Award at a TSA event during the current year will meet the requirement that a team must have won the Excellence Award to be eligible for the Excellence Award at the World Championship.