DATTA SA VEX State Championships
DATE: 10th November 2025
Location: Unisa, mawson lakes
2024 DATTA SA State Championships were a huge success!
Welcome to the information page for the DATTA SA VEX Robotics State Finals in collaboration and held at the University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes!
Please note this page will be updated constantly leading up to the event!
The team registration fees partly help cover the cost to hire equipment, pay for volunteer and judge lunches and other bits and pieces needed to run a robotics competition.
We would love to see local businesses, academics, and adult students help judge! It's a great experience, doesn't involve any prior understanding of the competition or robotics. We'll train you up and always partner you up with 1 or 2 other judges of experience to help you out!
Additionally we also need general volunteers for the tournament. These roles are suited for Year 8+ students or adults. Schools bringing volunteers please fill out the volunteer sign up form below to help us in organising our volunteers.
Spread the word about becoming a judge or volunteer! Download this PDF (2025 Version not yet released). email it to your team and join in on an awesome day of STEM!
Basic Times for School teams to help you plan for buses! Judges will be provided with modifications to this time schedule as we can accommodate needs to leave earlier.
- Registration will open: 8:30 am (teams can start to turn up, be marked off, make their way to pit areas)
- Robot Inspection for IQ teams will begin from 9:00am Please note: Teams competing in first 2 matches will be prioritised
- Opening Ceremony: 9:30 am
- Robot Inspection for VRC teams will begin from 9:45am. Please note: Teams competing in first 2 matches will be prioritised
- Matches begin 10:00am
- Close 3:00pm
If you are coming as a spectator please get your free ticket below. Tickets available ~August 2025
Engineering Notebooks
This year we are implementing a "pre event" judging process for engineering notebooks. This is to ensure the tournament runs on time and judges have everything they need to conduct team interviews.
We need all teams to submit engineering notebooks by <TBA>
If you have trouble getting the link setup with instructions below please PDF email the book to office@datta.sa.edu.au . Email DATTA SA with any issues around getting the book to us or alert us if you are not submitting a book.
Information on how to submit your engineering notebooks can be found here.
Innovate Award - linked to Engineering Notebooks
This year the innovate award which the VIQC Middle School and VRC High School has a new requirement. Details on this requirement for the award can be found here. This form should be scanned into your books and put just after the table of contents
RobotEvents
Please keep your details updated on RobotEvents (adding your additional coaches etc). We pull the CSV from RobotEvents as a means to contact coaches and without correct email contacts we can't reach all the coaches.
Internet Access
There is no public internet access we can guarantee at UniSA. Please keep this in mind when students are using Chromebooks/iPads that need to be connected to the internet for compiling.
Student Centered Program
At the heart of a VEX Robotic Competitions is the Student Centered approach demonstrated by teams across the season. Judges will be keen to see that student-centered approach which guides a number of awards handed out.
VRC - Student Centered - The Do's and Don'ts of Teams and Coaches
VIQC - Student Centered - The Do's and Don'ts of Teams and Coaches
Rubbish
Please encourage students that will be eating snacks throughout the day to place rubbish where possible (i.e chips packet, chocolate bar wrapper) back into their lunch box to help with minimising rubbish thrown in the UniSA bins.
Location
UniSA, Mawson Lakes - EW Mills/Sports Centre (see red VEX Robotics Marked Box). Please note the school bus drop off and pick up area. Additionally for parking please see the following note regarding the yellow marked areas:
The UniSA Parki app is free to use and can be downloaded from the App Store for iPhone and Google Play for Android. Parking payments are made by direct debit via your credit/debit card. If you don’t have a compatible phone, you can still pay for parking at one of the pay-by-plate machines located on campus.
Consent Forms!
Please complete the digital online consent forms for all team members by following the steps here.
The following is the information I've sent through to parents in the past which has been simple enough for them to follow:
You will see three buttons to select who is participating, please select "minor" and then proceed.
The information you'll need is your child's team number and letter that I have listed below and the program they are involved in (either VEX IQ or VRC)
www.robotevents.com/consent
VEX IQ SampleStudent 81800D