General Info
General Info
High School Tournament Live Stream link to be posted closer to event date.
The STEM Innovation Academy V5RC Tournament event will be held in the main atrium at STEM Innovation Academy High School, in Calgary.
You are on the event page for the High School event, but please be aware that the event will be run in parallel with a Middle School event. The high school event capacity is 48 teams and will have three competition fields, at least two skills field, and at least one practice field.
Event Features:
- Seating area and balcony will be available for spectators to view the fields.
- Classrooms will be used as team pit areas.
- The event will be live streamed. Please go the Webcast tab on event day fo find the link.
- All teams are scheduled to have at least 6 qualification matches.
- Elimination rounds will consist of 16 alliances of 2 teams.
- Skills and Judging will be available on a queuing system up until the end of the qualification round
- Venue
- STEM Innovation Academy High School
- Address
- 3636 Research Rd NW, Calgary, Alberta T2L 1Y1, Canada
- Dates
- December 12, 2026
- Grade Level
- High School
- Skills Challenge
- Yes
- Judging Format
- Digital Engineering Notebook Submissions / In-Person Team Interviews
Registration & Logistics
- Event Type
- Open Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control
- Smart Field Control
- Capacity
- 48
- Spots Open
- 31
- Event Region
- Alberta/Saskatchewan
- Max Registrations per Org
- 8
- Standard Registration Opens
- 31-Oct-2026 00:00 EDT
- Registration Deadline
- 5-Dec-2026 12:00 EST
- Payment Deadline
- December 12, 2026
- Price
- CA$120.00
Agenda
The following schedule represents the order of events a detailed one will be released in December.
Friday, December 11, 2025
5:00pm to 7:00pm - Optional: Teams are welcome to drop-in to complete robot inspection and set up their pit areas. Practice fields may be available.
Saturday, December 12, 2025
7:00 am - Doors Open & Inspections
9:00 am - Inspection closes, Opening Ceremony and Driver Meeting begins
9:30 am - Qualifications Start, Skills and Judging Open
12:00 pm - Lunch break
12:45 pm - Qualifications, Skills and Judging resume
4:15 pm - Qualifications Finish, Skills & Judging closes
4:30 pm - Alliance selection starts
5:00 pm - Elimination Round Begins
6:30 pm - Closing Ceremony, Awards, & Cleanup
8:00 pm - Venue closes
Stream
Webcast Live stream link will be posted here closer to the date of the event.
Judging Format
Judging Format Digital Engineering Notebook Submissions / In Person Team Interviews: Team interviews will be conducted in-person at the event. Engineering notebooks will be submitted digitally for evaluation via a link found within the "My Account" panel of the team contact. The submission deadline for digital notebooks will be 7 days before the event, which is December 5, 2025. Any notebook entries after this date will not be considered by the judges.
Volunteer
Volunteer Interested in joining the team? We are always looking for volunteers to join the crew to help in the following areas: • Friday setup • Skills score keeping, Skills score keeping, field reseting, and match queuing. • Saturday evening and/or Sunday morning clean up. Please contact Andre Shoucri if interested. a.shoucri@stemia.ca
Emergency/Bad-Weather Policy
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy In the event that the venue is closed, the tournament will be cancelled or postponed to a later date. Refunds will be processed after the fees of hosting the event have been paid.