Curriculum
Curriculum Overview
With more and more schools adopting VEX Robotics as a platform to enrich and enhance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, there is a need for an integrated program which allows teachers to seamlessly add VEX into their classrooms. As such we have worked with various parties to create an array of VEX curriculum offerings, each tailored to the specific needs of teachers wishing incorporate VEX into their classes. Each offering was developed by forward thinking organizations who are experienced at creating tools to keep STEM education exciting and inspiring.
You have a choice when it comes to professionally developed classroom curriculum for use with the VEX Robotics Design System. There are three custom tailored VEX Robotics curriculum offerings each with unique goals and methods of implementation. Download this PDF which highlights the main differences between these programs created by leading experts in technical education. A short overview of these curriculum packages can be found below.
Autodesk's VEX® Robotics Curriculum is designed to help students master the fundamentals of robotics and the engineering design process while learning to use industry-leading Autodesk® Inventor design software and the leading classroom robotics solution, the VEX Classroom Lab Kit.
intelitek’s Robotics Engineering Curriculum (REC) is a two-year robotics program for applied science, technology, engineering and mathematics. REC maps to national STEM Standards and custom-maps to any local standard. Real-time per-student basis available using the LearnMate Learning Management System.
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy curriculum is broken into six major sections: safety, project management, planning your project, robotic lessons, programming lessons, and engineering activities. The curriculum is designed to support teachers using the starter kit and also teachers interested in taking advantage of VEX’s advanced features like: advanced programming, controlling motors using PWMs and relays, pneumatics, homebrew sensors, etc.
Download this PDF which highlights the main differences between these programs created by leading experts in technical education.
It has been shown that robotics is a very powerful programmatic platform to attract and hold the attention of today’s multi-tasking, connected youths. Robotics competition has strong appeal to this intensely competitive generation and represents the perfect storm of applied physics, mathematics, computer programming, digital prototyping and design, integrated problem solving, teamwork, and thought leadership. Designed by Innovation First and VEX Robotics the VEX Robotics Classroom Competition exists to help schools focus on practical, affordable, and accessible ways of delivering dynamic hands-on STEM educational experiences to as many students as possible. Mixing the excitement and motivation associated with competition and real-world applications of mathematics and science concepts through the use of the engineering design process, the VEX Robotics Classroom Competition is a great program to capture the attention of any student, while teaching the fundamentals of STEM education. Students design and build robots to compete in a high energy and exciting robotics tournament within their own classroom.
