Category: VexIQ

The RoboRunners robotics club from Long Lake Elementary school had their strongest performance of the Vex IQ season tonight. They ended up scoring enough in the teamwork challenge tonight to end up in 1st place for Continue reading Robotics Club 05-11-2015 Match

The robotics club had their most well-rounded match of the season tonight. The team was able to put up scores of over fifty in all three aspects of the Vex IQ High Rise Challenge Tonight! As their mentor the most exciting part for me was Continue reading Robotics Club 05-04-2015 Match

The robotics club has really taken to programming and autonomous robot design. As they discussed in their last match they wanted to continue working on learning programming and see if they could program a robot that was able to Continue reading Robotics Club 04-29-2015 Practice

Tonight’s match was the best the team has had yet! The team placed first for the night in the Teamwork Challenge. They also placed first in the Programming Challenge! This is especially amazing because this is the first week that the team has competed in that aspect of the Vex IQ Challenge. It was really great to Continue reading Robotics Club 04-27-2015 Match

Our practice following this week’s match was one of the best practices we have had yet. The team spent nearly all of the practice learning about programming and testing the programs they wrote. I have spent a lot of time trying to think of the best way to teach programming while still keeping it fun Continue reading Robotics Club 04-22-2015 Practice

The RoboRunners Vex IQ robotics team greatly improved their driving at this week’s match after a great practice last week. The minor improvements that were done to the robot’s arm really seemed to help out. The robot did not break at all this week and the team was able to get their first Continue reading Robotics Club 04-20-2015 Match

The robotics club met for practice tonight and followed through with the plan they had made at their last match. The team wanted to spend the majority of the practice time driving. They felt that they really needed some additional time to master the more complex Vex IQ robot design Continue reading Robotics Club 04-15-2015 Practice

The robotics team met today and had a great time finishing up their new robot. With the new season of Vex IQ starting up, it was very important that they had a robot that was capable of competing. I am very excited to see how the new design performs Continue reading Robotics Club 04-08-2015 Practice

The Vex IQ robotics season is fast approaching and our robotics club is working very hard to get their new design ready to compete. This week’s practice featured a special guest from the high school robotics team who was eager to help out with ideas and methods of building. AJ is a lead builder and driver for the robotics team at West High School and will be assisting our team this season. The students were very happy Continue reading Robotics Club 03-25-2015 Practice