General Info
Welcome to the National Championship Presented by Pacific American School, one of Taiwan’s premier annual robotics competitions!
We are honored to host this year’s event, so please register as soon as possible. This event is open to high school teams and will feature skill challenge categories. We will do our utmost to provide the best possible environment and services, and we welcome students and teams from across the country to come to Hsinchu to participate in the competition and create wonderful memories together.
Reminder: Event Region Championship-Teams can qualify from local qualifying events into their Event Region Championship.
All teams must complete check-in 20 minutes before the start of the qualifying rounds so that the schedule can be announced.
The deadline for submitting digital engineering notebooks is 8 January 2027, 15:00 Taiwan Standard Time..
There are parking spaces for small vehicles near the competition venue, but no parking spaces are provided for large tour buses. On the day of the competition, temporary parking is allowed to allow competition teams to drop off and pick up participants and competition items.
- Venue
- Pacific American School, Hsinchu County
- Address
- No. 307, Section 1, Xinglong Road, Zhubei, Hsinchu County, 30272, Taiwan
- Dates
- January 15 – 16, 2027
- Grade Level
- High School
- Skills Challenge
- Yes
- Judging Format
- All In-Person Judging
Registration & Logistics
- Event Type
- Open Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control
- Smart Field Control
- Capacity
- 30
- Spots Open
- 30
- Event Region
- Chinese Taipei
- Max Registrations per Org
- 4
- Standard Registration Opens
- 5-Nov-2026 21:00 EST
- Registration Deadline
- 31-Dec-2026 21:00 EST
- Payment Deadline
- 6-Jan-2027 17:00 TST
- Price
- USD$500.00 / HK$3921.12
Agenda
Judging Format
The Engineering Notebook will be evaluated only on competition day . Engineering notebooks will be submitted digitally for evaluation via a link in the "My Account" panel of the team contact on events.vex.com . The submission deadline is 8 January 2027 , 15:00 Taiwan Standard Time . The Judge Advisor will download the Digital Engineering Notebooks for evaluation after the submission deadline, but will not prevent teams from continuing to update their Digital Engineering Notebooks. Teams can participate in this event without an Engineering Notebook and still be interviewed, but the Team will not earn any top judged awards. For the most current award descriptions and judging criteria, please visit library.globalrobotics.org . Late submissions or failure to submit the Engineering Notebook digitally will not be entertained. Please refer to the Refund Policy on Team withdrawal cases. Team interviews will be conducted in person at the event. Each Team can bring their own physical engineering notebook as a presentation tool during the interview.
Volunteer
Due to the large number of teams participating in this event, we need many volunteers to help run it. If you are interested in volunteering, please email the Event Partner! If you are interested in volunteering, please let us know, and we will provide you with a certificate of service hours. PASVEX Signature Event Planning Committee pasvex@pacificamerican.org
Emergency/Bad-Weather Policy
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. Event Partners will also make every effort to reach teams directly in case of an emergency. Make sure your team contact information is up to date in your events.vex.com account, as this is the information used to contact your team. Teams should make sure their contact information on events.vex.com is up to date and includes both school and non-school phone numbers.
- Excellence Award - High School (VRC/VAIRC)
- Tournament Champions (VRC/VEXU/VAIRC)
- Robot Skills Champion (VRC/VEXU/VAIRC)
- Tournament Finalists (VRC/VEXU/VAIRC)
- Build Award (VRC/VEXU/VAIRC)
- Create Award (VRC/VEXU/VAIRC)
- Design Award (VRC/VEXU/VAIRC)
- Energy Award (VRC/VEXU/VAIRC)
- Innovate Award (VRC/VEXU/VAIRC)
- Inspire Award (VRC/VEXU/VAIRC)
- Judges Award (VRC/VEXU/VAIC/ADC/VAIRC)
- Think Award (VRC/VEXU/VAIRC)