[STEM-Announce] Invitation: FIRST Chesapeake District Southwest Virginia Robotics Com... @ Sun Mar 25, 2018 1pm - 10:30pm (UTC) (stem-announce at lists.rbtc.tech)

Mon Mar 19 00:14:32 EST 2018

You have been invited to the following event.

Title: FIRST Chesapeake District Southwest Virginia Robotics Competition
FIRST Chesapeake District presents the 2018 Southwest Virginia Robotics  
Competition on Saturday, March 24, 2018 and Sunday, March 25, 2018 at  
Blacksburg High School.

Sunday Schedule:
• 9:00 am - 5:00 pm - Welcome and Information Tables Open
• 9:00-9:30 am - Opening Ceremonies
• 9:30 am - 12:30 pm - Qualification Matches
• 12:30-1:00 pm - Alliance Selections
• 1:00-2:00 pm - Lunch
• 2:00-5:00 pm - Elimination Tournament
• 5:00-6:30 pm - Awards Ceremony
• 7:00 pm - Pits Close

Forty of the best and brightest high school robotics teams from Virginia,  
DC and Maryland will be competing in this two day event that serves as a  
qualifier for the FIRST Chesapeake District Championship. Come out and  
cheer on your favorite team or learn more about bringing FIRST Robotics  
programs to your community.

This year’s game, developed by FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of  
Science and Technology), is called Power Up. It includes the nostalgia of  
the video arcade with the excitement of a sports-based robotics  
competition. The game scenario includes two, three-team alliances of video  
game characters and their human operators who are trapped in an arcade  
game. Each alliance has three ways to help defeat the “boss”: Tipping a  
scale or the alliance’s switch in their favor to earn points, exchanging  
power cubes for power ups (force, boost, and levitate) to gain a temporary  
advantage, and climbing a tower to face the “boss” and escape the game.

To see a video of how the competition works, visit:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbdwYiCY74&index=5&t=17s.

Admission is free and open to the public.

FIRST Robotics Competition is recognized as the premier high school  
engineering challenge. Teams of students, working closely with teachers and  
volunteer mentors, have six weeks to conceptualize, design, build, program,  
modify and test a robot to participate in a competition that changes each  
year. Every January, FIRST unveils the challenge or “game” at an annual  
kick-off event that is simulcast to locations around the world.

Following a six-week design and build phase, teams enter two of seven  
district competitions in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.  
Teams compete for scores that will earn them a place at the FIRST  
Chesapeake District Championship. Winners from FIRST Chesapeake will  
compete at the FIRST World Championship in Detroit.

To view Saturday's event, visit:  
http://www.nextthreedays.com/FeaturedEventDetails.cfm?E=465909.

For more information, visit:  
https://www.firstchesapeake.org/first-programs/frc/first-chesapeake-district-events/southwest-va  
or https://www.facebook.com/events/186750811919794/.

Cost: See Description
When: Sun Mar 25, 2018 1pm – 10:30pm Coordinated Universal Time
Where: Blacksburg High School
3401 Bruin Lane
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Calendar: stem-announce at lists.rbtc.tech
Who:
     * RBTC STEM Event Announcer

Event details:  
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