As an emcee you will bring enthusiasm and energy to all of those involved by providing a play-by-play for matches, providing informative commentary between matches, and announcing the awards ceremony. 

Skills: 

• Outgoing and charismatic personality 

• Ability to work with volunteers

• Improvisational skills

Activity Level: Moderate

Training: 1-2 hrs

Your responsibilty is to organize and oversee all scorekeeper referees. You will also act as the final authority for all rules and disputes. As you watch each match you will monitor team interactions and help teams avoid penalties, while also enforcing rule violations equitably. VEX is a learning platform, so the overall goal is to learn and help students grow as roboticists and people. 

Skills: 

• High level of knowledge for the rules and game

• Effective team management

• Ability to communicate positively and professionally

• Moderate disputes fairly and equitably

Activity Level: Moderate - High

Training: 5 - 6 hrs *certification required*

Link to Training

Link to Certification Exam

In this role your will record and verify scores with the teams, while using a mobile app or paper score sheets. You will be responsible with monitoring robot and team interactions and helping students avoid committing penalties, while enforcing rules violations and reporting those to the head referee. 

Skills: 

• Maintain impartiality while simultaneously applying the rules to robot interactions during matches

• Work effectively in a team role

• Ability to communicate positively and professionally

• Attention to detail

Activity Level: Moderate

Training: None needed, experience/training preferred (0.5-1hr)

Train and assist judges with conducting interviews, reviewing engineering notebooks, and observations of team interactions and performance. You will also help facilitate the deliberation process for juding awards and help judge if needed.

Skills: 

• Ability to remain impartial

• Confidentiality in communication with teams and during deliberations

• Ability to communicate positively and professionally

• Attention to detail

Activity Level: Moderate - High

Training: 3 - 4 hrs *certifcation required*

Link to Training

Link to Certification Exam

Evaluate student teams and engineering notebooks through interviews and observations of field performance and interactions with other teams and volunteers. You will also be helping to determine judged awards category winners.

Skills: 

• Ability to remain impartial

• Confidentiality in communication with teams and during deliberations

• Ability to communicate positively and professionally

• Attention to detail

Activity Level: Moderate - High

Training:  0.5-1 hr

In this role you will be responsible for accurately resetting the competition fields between matches. Typically team reset the field between matches, but it is useful to have someone verify that it is setup properly.

Skills: 

• Attention to detail

• Good communication

• Ability to move quickly around/on the field

Activity Level: Moderate - High

Training: 15 minutes

In this position you will be inspecting all incoming robots to verify that they are in compliance of all building rules and specifications that are outlined in the game manuals. The head referee will be overseeing this task to help answer any questions that may arise during the process.

Skills: 

• Attention to detail while following inspection checklist

• Collaboration skills

• Ability to communicate positively and professionally

Activity Level: Low

Training: 1 hr

Here you will assist with staging teams for upcoming matches.

Skills: 

• Attention to detail

• Maintain organization in a fast paced environment.

• Ability to communicate positively and professionally

Activity Level: Moderate - High

Training: None 

In this role you will oversee the practice fields and make sure that teams are sharing access and providing each other adequate and comparable time to test their robots and programs. You will also be responsible with answering general questions about the competition and venue related questions. 

Skills: 

• Ability to troubleshoot issues

• Monitor students and maintain order

• Ability to communicate positively and professionally

Activity Level: Low - Moderate

Training: None