Competition
VEX Competition Overview
The VEX Robotics Design System was developed and engineered with co-curricular and extracurricular robotics competitions specifically in mind. VEX equipment owners have a rapidly expanding selection of opportunities to experience the fun, motivation and excitement of competition. Some robotics competitions feature the VEX System exclusively while others have made select VEX components legal for participation. While the goals and resource requirements of these programs vary, they each leverage the affordability, reliability, flexibility and safety of the VEX System and components. Following are three programs developed exclusively for VEX equipment.
Motivate and excite students through competition in the classroom.
This program is specifically tailored to bring the magic of robotics competition into the classroom. Robotics is an engaging way to integrate all facets of STEM education into the classroom and head-to-head competition is a natural way to capture students' attention. During the excitement that comes with building and competing with their robots, students will be having too much fun to realize they're learning important STEM concepts and life skills!
A single teacher can easily implement all aspects of this program as part of their daily classroom activities. It may be easily integrated with other STEM curriculum and activities. Click here to learn more.
TSA takes the Classroom Competition to the next level and beyond.
The Technology Student Association (TSA) is a national non-profit organization for middle and high school students with a strong interest in technology. Members apply and integrate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) concepts through co-curricular activities, competitive events and related programs. TSA VEX Robotics tournaments will be conducted at participating State Conventions and the annual National Convention. More information on the TSA VEX Robotics Competition is available here. Teams compete playing the VEX Classroom Competition game Swept Away.
Learn more and register for upcoming events at RobotEvents.com. Learn more about how TSA fosters personal growth, leadership, and opportunities in technology, innovation, design and engineering at http://www.tsaweb.org/.
Compete globally and see how your skills measures up.
The VEX Robotics Competition is the largest and fastest growing middle and high school robotics program globally with more than 2,600 teams from 20 countries playing in over 200 tournaments worldwide. Local VEX Robotics Competition events are being held in many different cities, states and countries. Events are held worldwide and are being added every week to RobotEvents.com. Check back to see if new events have been announced in your area.
This year's game is VEX Round Up. Students, with guidance from their teachers and mentors, aim to build the most innovative robots possible and work together to obtain the most points possible. In addition to just having a great time and building amazing robots, through their participation in the VEX Robotics Competition and their work within their team, students will learn many academic and life skills.
Find events and connect with the educational robotics community.
RobotEvents.com exists to connect students, mentors, and schools in every community to a variety of successful and engaging technology-based programs. Our goal, along with our primary co-sponsors Autodesk and Innovation First Inc., is to provide these programs with services, solutions and a community that allows them to flourish in a way that fosters the technical and interpersonal skills necessary for students to succeed in the 21st Century. Whether it's a competitive event, workshop, camp or conference we understand the unprecedented level of passion and commitment it takes to create, maintain and execute such programs. RobotEvents.com is committed to promoting technology and related student and professional advancement so that one day these programs become accessible to all communities.
Robotics games to extend your program.
A VisualEdge Game-in-a-Box provides a unique opportunity to introduce robotics into the classroom. Each game is designed to stimulate student learning and engages participants to solve a variety of math, science and engineering problems. Click here to learn more.
Games are designed for various levels of experience and can be adapted for use with any educational robotics system that you may currently be using. Everything you need to play is in the box. Components typically include scoring goals, scoring components, fasteners, rules, field construction plans and scoring software. All you have to do is: JUST ADD ROBOTS™. Most games are compatible with the Classroom Competition field perimeter.
