Robotics

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The VEX IQ Challenge

Teams of Paul Bell Middle School students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play with other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. Classroom STEM concepts are put to the test as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more. Tournaments are held year-round at the regional, state, and national levels and culminate at the VEX Robotics World Championship each April!

About the Competitions

The Vex IQ tournaments are played on a 4’x8’ rectangular field. Two robots compete in the Teamwork Challenge as an alliance in 60-second-long teamwork matches, working collaboratively to score points. Teams also compete in the Robot Skills Challenge where one robot takes over the field to score as many points as possible. These matches consist of Driving Skills Matches, which will be entirely driver controlled, and Programming Skills Matches, which are autonomous with no human drivers controlling the robot. The object of the games is to attain the highest score by completing a variety of tasks showcasing the teams’ engineering, driving, and programming abilities.