General Info
General Info
This is an invitation only Friday evening league for teams in 4-6th grade, located in Placer County and surrounding area. The league is for teams registered as Elementary Division teams.
Teams interested in joining the league should add themselves to the waitlist and contact us at [email protected] to be considered.
The league is designed to provide a low-key and fun environment for new IQ teams to get started, with many opportunities to compete and improve over the season.
- Venue
- Ridgeview Elementary School
- Address
- 9177 Twin School Road, Granite Bay, California 95746, United States
- Dates
- October 23, 2026
- Grade Level
- Elementary
- Skills Challenge
- Yes
- Judging Format
- Digital Engineering Notebook Submissions / In-Person Team Interviews
Registration & Logistics
- Event Type
- League
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control
- N/A
- Capacity
- 36
- Spots Open
- 11
- Event Region
- California - North
- Standard Registration Opens
- 27-Jul-2026 12:00 EDT
- Registration Deadline
- 6-Nov-2026 12:00 EST
- Payment Deadline
- 1-Oct-2025 04:00 EDT
- Price
- $125.00
Agenda
Tentative, dates and times subject to change!
5:00pm - Doors open, Check-in and Inspection opens
6:00pm - Matches begin
8.00pm - Matches conclude
***Finals Night likely to extend until 8:30 or 9pm
Judging Format
Judging Format All In-Person Judging - The Team Interviews and Engineering Notebooks will be judged in-person during the league. Teams should bring a physical copy of their notebook to submit to the judges or submit an online notebook. Online Engineering notebooks will be submitted digitally for evaluation via a link found within the "My Account" panel of the team contact. A submission deadline that may be scheduled ahead of the event date.
Volunteer
Volunteer Each team will be required to provide volunteers for the event to help with: • Check-in • Inspection • Queuing • Field scoring • Field reset • Judging (finals only) Please contact us at vexiq@PlacerRobotics for information.
Emergency/Bad-Weather Policy
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy Weather is unluckly to have an impact on this event. In the case of bad weather conditions or possible cancellations, please visit the event on events.vex.com where updates about the event status will be posted as needed. Please make sure your team's contact information is up to date in your events.vex.com account in the event we need to contact your team.
- Excellence Award (IQ)
- Teamwork Champion Award (IQ)
- Design Award (IQ)
- Robot Skills Champion (IQ)
- Robot Skills 2nd Place (IQ)
- Robot Skills 3rd Place (IQ)
- Teamwork 2nd Place Award (IQ)
- Teamwork 3rd Place Award (IQ)
- Amaze Award (IQ)
- Build Award (IQ)
- Create Award (IQ)
- Energy Award (IQ)
- Innovate Award (IQ)
- Inspire Award (IQ)
- Judges Award (IQ)
- Mentor of the Year Award (IQ)
- Sportsmanship Award (IQ)
- Think Award (IQ)
- Volunteer of the Year Award (IQ)