Miami-Dade Make It Happen

Miami-Dade District of Army Instructions are delighted to host “Make it Happen” the 2026-27 RECF Achieve Robotics Competition at American Senior High School in the Gym.

The event will be in person and open to 24 teams.  Once the event is full, a waiting list will be created for teams who were unable to register.

All participants are expected to complete the participant release form .   Once per season covers all events.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email the Event Partner, Michael R. Jones, at mrj265@dadeschools.net

On-site parking is free.

All teams need to be checked in by the end of the inspection. 
 

Team Payment: Teams must be paid by November 7, 2026. Teams not paid at this time may be dropped at the event partner's discretion to allow teams in from the wait list.

Tentative Agenda

Doors open 8:00am (Check in and inspections open immediately)

Check-in until 9:00am (FIRM--if you hit traffic, you MUST let us know to be included in match list)

Skills field opens at 8:45am

Inspections COMPLETE at 9am (Again, this is FIRM--bring robots ready to compete)

Driver's meeting 9:15am

Qualification Matches Begin 9:30am

Lunch break 11:30-12:15pm

Qualification Matches Continue 12:15pm

Skills field closes at the end of the last Qualification match.

Alliance Selection 2:30pm

Elimination Matches begin at 2:45pm

Awards 4:00pm

Remote Engineering Notebooks / In-person Interviews:

This event will have remote engineering notebooks and in-person interviews at the event. 

Notebooks are due by 11/11/2026 11:59PM. 

Excellence Award

Tournament Champions x2

Solo Match Champion

Design Award

Innovate Award

Judges Award

If the Event Partner cancels the event: 

We will only cancel the event due to an emergency or bad weather. We will provide as close to a full refund as possible in this extremely unlikely event (certain event funds such as the RECF handling fee must be spent before the event occurs and those will not be refunded). 

If a Coach/Mentor completes registration and then chooses to withdraw or not attend:

Once a team has paid for the event, no refund will be given. Teams who do not pay by the payment deadline will be moved to the waitlist and potentially lose their spot. If special arrangements are made for a team to remain registered for the event after the payment deadline, teams will still be expected to pay in full regardless of whether or not that team attends as we will be unlikely to fill the spot on short notice.