Championship Event : Saturday December 10, 2011

Event Registration

• Your advancing team will be admitted for Championship by the tournament director.  You will receive an email invitation.  You must respond to Fran@ColoradoFIRST.org to name your team's recruited volunteer to help out with Championship.  Please adhere to the volunteer guidelines below.
• THOMPSON ROBOTICS EXPO is NOT an official FLL Qualifying tournament in 2011.  Your team must participate in an official Colorado Qualifier to advance to the Colorado Championship.  See the Schedule side bar to the right for a list of qualifying events.
• Tournament fees are $75.  Championship Registration will open in late November, payable on line at shop.ColoradoFIRST.org 
• Participating teams must advance from a qualifier including a completed Innovation Project Presentation.
• Teams advancing to Championship MUST provide two event volunteers to help us make the Championship a success!  Advancing team coaches will not be accepted as volunteers.  Judges count double to the requirement!
• Please bring your COMPLETED Consent and Release forms to streamline your check in!  FIRST requires a completed form for every participant - team, coach, mentor, volunteer, tournament director, operational partner - for every event!
  • English
  • Spanish
• Order your Championship T-Shirts from your team management page (linked at right) and include payments at the same time!  T-shirt orders must be completed no later than Thursday, December 2nd.   All t-shirts are $8, regardless of size.

Directions & Parking

• Address:
  Auraria Event Center
  1010 Larimer St, Denver CO  80204

• Google map to Denver's Auraria Campus  ――›

• Parking Maps

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 Schedule for the Day

• 6:45 - 7:15 volunteer check in (lobby)
  7:30 - 7:45 - volunteer briefing (off lobby)
  7:30- 9:00 -
   - judge's meeting (North Classroom - room 1806) 
   - referee meeting (competition floor - center court)
• 7:45 - 8:30 coach/team check in (lobby), settle in to your pit: (pit tables here; pit list here.  )
  8:30 Coaches' meeting, Observation Mezzanine.  Access through doors north west of the Pits (find the green arrow).
   
• 8:45 - 8:50 kick-off and announcements
  9:00 - 11:40 - judging - teamwork, projects, technical interviews - refer to your own team's schedule for exact completion times. (Gym & North Classroom Bldg)
   
• 11:30 -12:15 lunch
  11:40 Judges deliberation begins (North Classroom Bldg )
   
• 12:15 -12:25 Competition Rounds Opening Ceremony
  12:30 - 2:50 Robot competition matches
  Please review code of conduct expectations here.
  3:00 - 3:30 clean up pits, entertainments, etc
   
• 3:30 - 4:30 awards

Code of Conduct

You will be tested on this during Team Work judging!

• Know your FLL Core Values!  Check the first page of the coach's handbook. 
• Know what Gracious Professionalism means, and be prepared with examples of how your team has behaved in this manner.
• Adults - Kids learn by example!  Teach them to do as you do!  Please review the code of conduct expectations here.

Event floor plans

• Click for Auraria Event Center floor plan showing :

• • Competition tables - center court

    • Check the optimal traffic pattern to and from the competition tables

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    Pits: Pit Map, Table Assignments - east court

     

• North Classroom Building for all Judging areas.  All rooms have projectors accessible with your PC.

Visitors and Guests are welcome

Admission to the tournament is FREE!  Please wear comfortable clothing and white soled athletic shoes for un-restricted access to the facilities - especially to the pits and teamwork judging.  Families and guests are welcome in the activity and presentation judging rooms, but please respect the judging process and keep your  numbers and distraction to the teams at a minimum!

Food 

FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1410...

...from George Washington High School in Denver will be offering concessions at the FLL Colorado Championship on Saturday, December 10^th.  We will be offering reasonably-priced items such as bagels, coffee, hot dogs, chips, soda, juice, water, and specially-designed cupcakes.  This is a fundraiser for Team 1410 as we get ready for our season to kick-off in January.  Please support our FIRST team!

The food court at the Tivoli building will be open with a choice of several restaurants:

Volunteers!

Registered Volunteers, please plan to arrive between 6:45 and 7:15 am.  We'll need volunteers just to check in the volunteers, so you all please be here on the early side.

• Judges Volunteer Sign-up form
• Referees Sign-up
• Event Staff Sign-up
• Core Team Sign-up
• Coaches! Those of you still recruiting your volunteers can find some recruiting suggestions here. Please, 1 person per job, and team parents may want to volunteer at a tourament OTHER THAN the team's tournament!
• As with other tournament events, your participation at championship requires you provide at least two volunteers per team.  Be sure your volunteer registers with Fran at ColoradoFIRST.org, providing their name and e-mail address, their preferred position and t-shirt size, and they MUST mention your team number for your registration to be confirmed!
• New volunteer positions include
  • Shopping – collect a donation card from your favorite super market for bottled water, sodas, fruit or deli trays.  Or ask Starbucks for a “Traveler” donation.  Contact me for a “donation request letter” and what we need.
  • tournament set up the night before,
  • helping to load and port tables
  • Clean up afterward – people to stick with us until the lights are ready to be turned off after the event
• We also need judges and referees.  If you know a team that didn’t get promoted, perhaps that team’s coach would be interested in seeing the tournament from the other side of the clipboard.

These events wouldn't happen without our volunteers!  Please help keep this terrific program alive in Colorado - come on down and pitch in!  We have had terrific turn out all season long, let's keep up the push for our Championship event! 

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! 

Awards and Advancement

Click the link above for details about the awards to be presented and opportunities for your team to advance to one of the national FLL events.  Regardless of your teams awards, your accomplishments are many and your achievements commendable!  Remember your FLL core values, most especially,

It's not what you Win but what you discover!

Congratulations on a wonderful season!

What happens next?

World Festival and International Open Festivals

Invitations to the FIRST World Festival lottery winners include Colorado this year! This means that the state Champion's award winner will receive an invitation to the World Festival in April 25 – 28, 2012 in St. Louis, Missouri. If the Champion's award winner is unable to attend than the invitation would be available to the 2nd place Champion's. Some years also include a US Open event open to state Champions and runner ups. Any of these festivals included a $700 to $1,000 registration fee, plus transportation, food and lodging expenses while there.

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