Great job to all students from all over the globe who participated in this year’s Online Challenges! We are so proud of all the entries we saw and we are excited to share this year’s winners. Congratulations to the teams below!
Click the links below to view winning entries.
Theme It Up! Challenge
Career Readiness Challenge
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “Design Thinking: How Dell Does It,” Team 9181F, British Columbia, Canada
- VEX Robotics Competition Middle School: “VEX Today, Lockheed Martin Tomorrow,” Team 99157B, Virginia, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “Architectural and Robotic Engineering Design Processes,” Team 21549A, Essex, United Kingdom
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “Banking With a Twist,” Team 10142Y, Hawaii, United States
Reverse Engineering Challenge
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “The Evolution Of Hearing Aids over Time,” Team 7282Z, Indiana, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition Middle School: “Reverse Engineering a Samsung Galaxy S4,” Team 11196X, London, United Kingdom
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “Deconstructing a Fitness Tracker,” Team 10173C, London, United Kingdom
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “Disassembling and Analyzing a Toshiba Portege M600 Laptop,” Team 30636A, California, United States
CAD Engineering Challenge Sponsored by Autodesk
Promote Video Challenge Sponsored by VEX
- VEX U: “Welcome to The World of VEX Robotics,” Team MSOE1, Wisconsin, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “It’s About VEX,” Team 6627A, California, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition Middle School: “VEX: Building the Future,” Team 20785Z, London, United Kingdom
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “The Universal Language of Robotics,” Team 727Y, Pennsylvania, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “Promote Video Challenge,” Team 18000A, California, United States
Girl Powered Challenge Sponsored by Google
- VEX U: “Empowering Women in Alaska,” Team ICE1, Alaska, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “3946S Women,” Team 3946S, Colorado, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition Middle School: “Girls Who Change The Game,” Team 393Y, California, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “All about Erudite!,” Team 37101E, London, United Kingdom
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “Robotics and Girls: Breaking Barriers and Building the Future,” Team 1251G, Texas, United States
Student Advocacy Award
Poster Design Challenge
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “V5RC: The Experience of a Lifetime Recruitment Poster,” Team 1727B, Maryland, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition Middle School: “HBS Spark 10173Z poster design,” Team 10173Z, Greater London, United Kingdom
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “VEX Robotics,” Team 1715K, Massachusetts, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “Would YOU Like Robotics,” Team 3701A, Alabama, United States
- VEX U: “VEX U Informational Poster,” Team RIT, New York, United States
Photography Challenge
- VEX U: “Implementing Solutions Found From Math,” Team RIT, New York, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “Tensegrity,” Team 1469A, California, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition Middle School: “Lightning the Way to Our Goals,” Team 78181A, Hsin-chu, Chinese Taipei
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “Scoring photoGRAPH,” Team 952H, Maryland, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “Logarithmic Spiral Ammonite Shell,” Team 91343B, California, United States
STEM Research Project
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “Redesigning Public Transport,” Team 599X, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “Hexproof: Using maths to save lives,” Team 21549B, London, United Kingdom
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “10173C: STEM Research Project,” Team 10173C, London, United Kingdom
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “Spiraling Solar Power,” Team 34342A, Washington, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “Geometric shapes in spiderwebs,” Team 2420A, Nevada, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “Viper Vision,” Team 34107F, West Virginia, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “Team Potentia – STEM Research Project,” Team 3383A, California, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “Symmetry in Nature,” Team 34107E, West Virginia, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “Solea – a sustainable solution to an unsustainable issue,” Team 21549A, Essex, United Kingdom
- VEX IQ Competition Middle School: “Artificial Photosynthesising Machine,” Team 10173A, London, United Kingdom
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “The SunCatcher,” Team 62686A, Virginia, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “CTE Research Project,” Team 91343B, California, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “How to Control A Tornado, The Study of Angular Momentum and Flywheels,” Team 22608A, California, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “Tesselations in Architecture,” Team 839Y, Ontario, Canada
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “JMZL NEWS-Emergency Shelters for Natural Disaster Relief,” Team 5164A, California, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “Diminishing Air Pollution by Using Hexagons,” Team 30636D, California, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “Prosthetic Socket Solution using Math Pattern in Nature,” Team 8390T, Ontario, Canada
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “Mahon’s Mystery Journal Thief,” Team 53618A, Cork, Ireland
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “Smiles in Nature,” Team 15A, California, United States
- VEX IQ Competition Elementary School: “Using Nature to Reduce Air Pollution,” Team 91343E, California, United States
Career Readiness
- Aerial Drone Competition Middle School: “Career Readiness Paper,” Team 48823A, Michigan, United States
- Aerial Drone Competition Middle School: “Real Estate Drone Photographer, Videographer,” Team 54705A, Louisiana, United States
- Aerial Drone Competition Middle School: “Career Readiness for Drones Challenge,” Team 54705B, Louisiana, United States
- Aerial Drone Competition Middle School: “How Droning Can Set Up Careers for Students,” Team 54705C, Louisiana, United States
- Aerial Drone Competition High School: “Astrochemists,” Team 5327P, California, United States
International Robotics Honor Society Service Award
Community Award Sponsored by Google
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “Passing It On,” Team 515R, Kentucky, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “Why We Make Explanation Videos!,” Team 606X, Arizona, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “Linkbot : Link to change,” Team 18190A, Guangdong, China
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “Creating an Impact, from Local to International,” Team 4253B, Chinese Taipei
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “A Day in my Life,” Team 71832P, Central, Paraguay
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “Endeavoring To Give,” Team 2496N, California, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “Educating the Younger Generation,” Team 2602D, Massachusetts, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition Middle School: “Inspiring the next generation of engineers,” Team 20785R, London, United Kingdom
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “Equal Opportunities in STEM,” Team 2602B, Massachusetts, United States
- VEX Robotics Competition High School: “Bringing STEM Access to Underrepresented Communities,” Team 17990E, Illinois, United States
OnShape Design Challenge
- VEX U Winner: Team ILLIN1, VEX U, Illinois, United States
- High School Winner: Team 515R, VEX Robotics Competition High School, Kentucky, United States
- High School 2nd Place: Team 1356X, VEX Robotics Competition High School, Georgia, United States
- High School 3rd Place: Team 3118B, VEX Robotics Competition High School, Texas, United States
- Middle School Winner: Team 4073B, VEX Robotics Competition Middle School, California, United States
Chinese Cultural Exchange Program Online Challenge
- VIQC ES Winner: Team 81020A, Beijing Bayi School 北京市八一学校,Beijing 北京 (Video)
- VIQC ES Finalists: Team 88299E, Youth Science & Technology Center of Beijing, Xicheng 北京市西城区青少年科学技术馆, Beijing 北京 (Video)
- VIQC ES Finalists: Team 81020B, Beijing Bayi School 北京市八一学校, Beijing 北京 (Video)
- VIQC ES Finalists: Team 99988A, Easylearnning Robot, Shanghai 上海 (Video)
- VIQC ES Finalists: Team 66222A, Chuanglekejiao 南京创乐科教,Jiangsu 江苏 (Video)
- VIQC ES Finalists: Team 6699N, Taiwan Robotics Lab, Chinese Taipei, 台湾 (Video)
- V5RC MS Winner: Team 50009Y, Guangzhou Liwan Children’s Palace 广州荔湾青少年宫, Guangdong 广东 (Video)
- V5RC MS Finalists: Team 80088A, Dongfengdong Road Primary School 东风路小学,Guangdong 广东 (Video)
- V5RC HS Winner: Team 81011X, 天津市赛思机器人俱乐部,Tianjin 天津 (Video)
- V5RC HS Finalists: Team 61669P, PTH, Chinese Taipei, 台湾 (Video)
- V5RC HS Finalists: Team 71030H, PNP studio, Guangdong 广东 (Video)
- V5RC HS Finalists: Team 7139B, Beijing Bayi School 北京市八一学校,Beijing 北京 (Video)
MathWorks Follow The Path Online Challenge
VR Challenge
Click here to learn more about the REC Foundation’s Online Challenges.
