I would also imagine that you don’t want to strain the resources that are heavily involved in running many of these tournaments – that being the high school robotics teams.  Their season starts in the first week of January and goes heavy until March.  It appears to me that at least the Maggie Walker tournament would have been almost impossible without their participation which would be difficult to get in the spring.

                Joe Kaperick

                St. Edward-Epiphany School

                Richmond, VA

 

 

 

I can offer a little history on this.  Previously the tournaments were

held in Blacksburg.  Because of weather we had to move the state

tournament to January.  That made it more difficult because you have

teams from all over Virginia going up into the mountains during the unpredictable winter months.

It was scary being responsible for cars of students when the roads were

still icy.  James Madison is a little bit of a better location as it is

not in as high an elevation as Blacksburg, but the teams from the east

must still cross Afton Mountain, in the winter, to get there.

 

The other thing is many of us have other activities that we do with

students that start up in January ( TSA, OM, and in tidewater we have

Great Computer Challenge ).

 

 

Rusty West

Page Middle School

Gloucester, VA

 

Pre-engineering

Project Lead The Way /

Gateway To Technology

 

FIRST Lego League

FIRST Tech Challenge

 

 

http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/schools/page/

 

 

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