GREENVILLE, TX – March 3, 2017 – The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Online Challenges, which encourage students to take what they’ve learned through VEX Competitions and apply it to areas such as video creation, engineering design, website development, and photography. Students who submit to […]
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Rachel from VEX Robotics Competition Team 8110B filled the REC Foundation in on the challenges her team has faced as well as their hopes for the future. Rachel’s team, nicknamed “Team KaBuum," is from Mankato, Minnesota, and she has been a part of the team for two years.  Rachel’s current coach and teacher inspired her […]
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The REC Foundation recently caught up with Melissa, Sofia, Janvi, and Parima with the Hopkinetics, Hopkinton High School’s VEX Robotics Competition Teams 2602A & B, to discuss Girl Powered. The girls hold a variety of roles on the teams with Melissa as the team builder and designer; Sofia, also a builder; Janvi an amaze and […]
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The REC Foundation recently caught up with Rachel from VEX Robotics Competition Team 323G, R.I.O.T. (Robotics Is Our Thing), with Cornerstone Robotics in Greenwood, Indiana. Rachel is currently the team leader and has been a member for four years. She's held roles on the team as a designer, builder, operator and programmer. "The highlight of […]
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The REC Foundation recently caught up with Team 9225C, Wildcat Robotics from White Plains High School in Anniston, Alabama. Team members include Alexis, Rebecca, Rachel, Chase, and their coach Bo Shaw. Girl Powered Team 9225C is an all-girls team that formed when the girls determined that the members of their previous co-ed team didn’t take […]
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Last Season we profiled VEX participant Noah of Team 99484, the Knights from the Christian Academy in Japan. In our interview, Noah told us about his move from Lancaster, California, where he was a member of the VEX Jets robotics team at Joe Walker Middle School to Japan where he helped start a new team […]
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Prior to enrolling in a Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Introduction to Engineering (IED) class as a junior at Butler High School in Butler, Missouri, Jeremy Shaffer often struggled with his schoolwork despite working hard and getting plenty of help. That class changed Jeremy’s direction. He started working with Autodesk’s Inventor software and before long, […]
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Greenville, TX – October 11, 2016 – The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation and VEX Robotics, Inc. teamed up to launch Girl Powered, a joint initiative to engage more young women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through competitive robotics. This announcement comes with a series of Girl Powered outreach activities hosted by […]
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GREENVILLE, TX – October 4, 2016 – The Robotics Education & Competition Foundation has received a generous $20,000 challenge grant from Microchip Technology Inc.—a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions headquartered in Chandler, Arizona—to support the growth of the VEX IQ Challenge and the VEX Robotics Competition in Arizona. Through the grant, […]
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GREENVILLE, TX – September 8, 2016 – The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation today announced Timothy Sierk, VEX Robotics Competition Team 177X from Ashland, Virginia, as the winner of the 2016 Chevron Scholarship, which encouraged students to submit an essay explaining how the VEX Robotics Competition enabled them to develop high competency and appreciation […]
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