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PLTW & RECF: Powering the Future of Engineering and Robotics Education

March 18, 2025

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Project Lead The Way (PLTW) and the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation (RECF) are joining forces to enhance engineering and robotics education. This partnership leverages the strengths o...

2025 Online Challenges Winners Announced

March 17, 2025

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Thank you to the students from all over the globe who participated in this season’s Online Challenges! We are so impressed by all of the entries we received, and we are thrilled to share the 2025 cha...

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Impact Newsletter: February 2025

February 27, 2025

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From Worcester to Worcester: A 7,781 Mile Robotics Journey Imagine building a competition-ready robot in just 24 hours with minimal knowledge of the game and limited experience with a robotics ...

The Aerial Drone Competition: Largest Student Drone Program in the US Soars to New Educational Heights

November 18, 2024

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Greenville, TX – November 18, 2024 – Another exciting and educational drone season has begun for thousands of middle and high schools nationwide. The Aerial Drone Competition’s Mission 2025: Gr...

From Worcester, South Africa to Worcester, Massachusetts

January 31, 2025

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VEX Robotics teams spend months meticulously planning game strategies, coding for the best autonomous score, and building and refining their robot. It’s all part of the engineering design process. ...

Indigenous Robotics take Center Stage at the Southwest Native American Showcase

January 31, 2025

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On the remote Fort Apache Reservation, high in the mountains above Phoenix, native students worked on their robots. The Arizona White Mountains peeked over the Chief Alchesay Activity Center, wher...

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Creating Space with Prep for Prep

November 5, 2024

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“You belong here.” That was Dale Allsopp’s opening message to the 75 Prep for Prep students gathered at Google’s Chelsea offices for a robotics workshop in New York City this past October. Also ba...

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The Robotics Education & Competition Foundation (RECF) Expands its Partnerships with Native Tribes to Bridge Educational Divide Through Robotics Programming

November 12, 2024

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Greenville, TX – November 12, 2024 — The Robotics Education & Competition Foundation (RECF) expands its partnership with Native American Tribes across the United States to address the techn...

Featured Video: Girl Powered Flagship Event 2019

November 27, 2019

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Over 50 girls from the Dallas, TX area gathered together at the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas’s STEM Center of Excellence in October for our third annual Girl Powered Flagship Event, sponsored by Te...

The Robotics Education & Competition Foundation is GuideStar Gold Certified!

October 22, 2024

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The Robotics Education & Competition Foundation is proud to share that we’ve earned our 2024 Gold Seal of Transparency from Candid, a leading nonprofit research and data center formed in 2019 whe...

Featured Video: Building Hope

November 27, 2019

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In the REC Foundation community, we are privileged to know and work with so many incredible mentors. In collaboration with VEX Robotics, it is our pleasure to share this short documentary about Coach...

From Participant to Partner: Oscar McCullough

February 21, 2024

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At the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation (RECF) we are so lucky to have thousands of volunteers who tirelessly devote countless hours to making sure that events run smoothly. One of those...

Meshing Gears with Omar Cortez

October 10, 2024

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I told the kids, ‘I want you guys to explore different careers so you can find something that you’re going to wake up excited about.’ I love what I do. And through that, I think through my pass...

2024 Online Challenges Winners Announced

March 15, 2024

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Thank you to the students from all over the globe who participated in this season’s Online Challenges! We are so impressed by all of the entries we received, and we are thrilled to share the 20...

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month 2023

November 29, 2023

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In honor of Native American Heritage month, we took a trip to the White Mountain Apache Reservation to speak with RECF volunteer Triscinda Miller. Triscinda is a STEM tech with Apache Behavioral Heal...

Alumni Profile: Amir Tillis

November 9, 2023

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Amir Tillis is a VEX alumni who participated in V5RC events while in high school. He currently works at Deloitte as a technical consultant where his primary focus is space and defense clients. “Peopl...

Congratulations to Project Lead the Way Teacher of the Year and RECF Volunteer Natasha Craft

January 24, 2024

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While dedicated mentors abound at the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation, it is rare that a volunteer is named Teacher of the Year. In December, Natasha Craft, a robotics coach and educato...

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month 2023

October 11, 2023

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Like many REC Foundation (RECF) mentors, Yazmin Rivera got into robotics with little prior experience after her school’s STEM teacher departed and she was asked to fill in for the position. Despite t...

Be Authentically You – Mrs. Belt-Robinson

February 28, 2019

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We are very excited to kick off a new blog series that will feature a Q&A with the strong women mentors, coaches, teachers, and more within VEX Robotics and CS-STEM that inspire our young girls t...

Native American Profiles in STEM

November 3, 2022

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Working with our partners at the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the REC Foundation celebrates Native American Heritage Month by highlighting indigenous people in various domain...

Black History Month 2023 Feature: Janeen Uzzell

February 26, 2023

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Janeen Uzzell is the Chief Executive Officer at the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), the largest Black STEM community impacting society and industry. In her former role as the Chief Operat...

Black History Month 2023 Feature: Terrence Southern

February 27, 2023

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Terrence Southern is an award winning Robotics & Automation expert, speaker, influencer of innovation, entrepreneur and philanthropist who is a nationally recognized thought leader, strategist an...

3rd Annual Southwest Native American Showcase sponsored by Amazon and Google

October 13, 2022

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All Native American and Indigenous Teams are invited to participate in the 3rd Annual Native American Showcase Events – November 18-19, 2022 in Whiteriver, Arizona. Teams will have an oppo...

2023 Online Challenges Winners Announced

February 22, 2023

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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 winn...

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Partner to Offer Greater Academic and Professional Support for Young Women

October 16, 2023

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Greenville, TX – October 11, 2023 – To celebrate the International Day of the Girl, The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) today announced ...