Introduction
The 2025 REC Foundation Summit will take place on July 22nd-23rd, 2025, with a welcome dinner on July 21st at The America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri. New this year: the REC Foundation Summit will include Coaches and Event Partners with sessions for each group. We will highlight all of the new and exciting information for the upcoming season. Participants will be able to attend training and discussion-based breakout sessions on a variety of topics. Professional Development credit can be awarded by attending.
- If you are interested in attending, please complete the interest form and submit it no later than March 15, 2025.
- Note: Capacity is limited to 100 attendees. We will make a concerted effort to have representation from as many different Event Regions as possible.
- We will notify those selected by April 1, 2025.
Agenda
(The Agenda is for Central Daylight Time and subject to change)
Day 1
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Session | Room |
| July 21 | 6:00PM | 8:00PM | Welcome Dinner w/Regional Support Managers | 221 |
Day 2
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Session | Room |
| July 22 | 8:30AM | 9:15AM | Welcome | 221 |
| July 22 | 9:15AM | 11:15AM | 2025-2026 Season Updates | 221 |
| July 22 | 11:15AM | 12:45PM | Lunch / Operations Presentation | 221 |
| July 22 | 12:45PM | 1:15PM | Q & A | 221 |
| July 22 | 1:30PM | 2:20PM | Breakout Sessions - Block 1 | Various |
| July 22 | 2:30PM | 3:20PM | Breakout Sessions - Block 2 | Various |
| July 22 | 3:30PM | 4:20PM | Breakout Sessions - Block 3 | Various |
| July 22 | 4:30PM | 6:00PM | Dinner / Networking | 221 |
Day 3
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Session | Room |
| July 23 | 8:30AM | 9:15AM | General Session (TBD) | 221 |
| July 23 | 9:30AM | 10:20AM | Breakout Sessions - Block 4 | Various |
| July 23 | 10:30AM | 11:20PM | Breakout Sessions - Block 5 | Various |
| July 23 | 11:30PM | 1:00PM | Lunch / Q&A | 221 |
| July 23 | 1:00PM | 1:50PM | Breakout Sessions - Block 6 | Various |
| July 23 | 2:00PM | 2:50PM | Breakout Sessions - Block 7 | Various |
| July 23 | 3:00PM | 3:50PM | Breakout Sessions - Block 8 | Various |
| July 23 | 4:30PM | 5:00PM | Closing Session / Hot Topics | 221 |
| July 23 | 5:00PM | Dinner - On Your Own | ||
Breakout Session Topics
We will have some sessions geared for Coaches, some geared for Event Partners, and some topics that are general for all attendees. Regardless of your role, you are welcome to attend any session. We highly encourage Coaches who are considering hosting events in the future to attend Event Partner sessions to learn as much as possible to prepare them for that next step. We also encourage Event Partners to attend Coach sessions to help with team support and growth in their regions.
For Coaches:
- Coaching Resources
- Intermediate Coding
- Team Management Best Practices
- Understanding the Qualifying Criteria
- The Judging Process for Coaches
- Team Fundraising
- Engineering Notebook Best Practices
- Strategic Design
- Additional sessions (TBD) presented by Coaches
For Event Partners:
- Best Practices When Posting Events
- Tournament Manager Training (Beginner and Advanced sessions)
- Networking with Raspberry Pi's and Tablet Scoring
- Livestreaming
- Smart Field Control
- Volunteer Coordination
- The Judging Process at Events
- Finding Event Sponsors
- Code of Conduct Reporting at Events
- Additional sessions (TBD) presented by Event Partners
For Everyone:
- 2025-2026 VEX IQ Robotics Competition Game
- 2025-2026 VEX V5 Robotics Competition Game
- Judging Updates
- Competition Format Discussion
Session Presentations
Presentations will be made available after the Summit concludes.