The United States faces an unprecedented need for new innovators, thinkers, and problem solving leaders.  The goal of VEX Robotics is to create engaging, affordable, and powerful solutions that immerse students in STEM through the excitement of building and programming robots.

 

In VEX Robotics competitions, teams are tasked with designing, building, programming and driving a robot to play against other teams in an annual  game-based engineering challenge.  Through the REC Foundation,competitions are available to elementary (VEX IQ), middle and high school (VEX EDR) and college (VEX U) teams.  Tournaments are held at the local, regional and state levels culminating at the VEX Robotics World Championship each April (background photo of US teams in the Parade of Nations at VEX Worlds 2017)

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VOLT Robotics currently competes in the VEX EDR division.  In this division, aluminum and steel parts are used, and the robots are built using the VEX EDR Design System and programmed with C+, Python or other computer languages.    At tournaments, teams participate in qualifying matches where 2 teams vs 2 teams participate. In the elimination rounds, alliances of 2 teams are selected by the top-seeded teams, and the alliance who wins the finals is the winner of the tournament.

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Not only is the competition fun and exciting, but classroom STEM concepts are brought to life and put to the test.  Also, students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more.  Most of all, students form friendships with other students from all over their region, the nation and abroad.