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High School Robotics Teams Awarded Texas Workforce Commission Grants Head to 2014 VEX Robotics World Championship

April 22, 2014
Rockwall, Texas – April 22, 2014 – Last June, the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation and the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) announced a partnership to support growth and developm...
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Google Expands Support for Girls in STEM through its Girl Powered Partnership with The REC Foundation and VEX Robotics

March 13, 2019
SEATTLE, WA – March 13, 2019 – Exploring hands-on challenges in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is increasing girls’ interest in engineering robots for competitions, acco...
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Google & the REC Foundation Empower More Girls To Enter STEM Fields with Second Annual Girl Powered Workshop

August 9, 2018
August 9, 2018 – Sunnyvale, CA – The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation is excited to help host the Google Girl Powered VEX Robotics Workshop, uniting 565 middle and high school gi...
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Houston Area VEX Robotics Team Wins NSBE Competition & Attends VEX Worlds 2015

May 28, 2015
GREENVILLE, TX – May 28, 2015 – The Young Women’s College Preparatory Academy and the Mickey Leland College Preparatory Academy for Young Men joined forces this season to compete in the National Soci...
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How Do We Get More Girls Into STEM? Build Confidence (and Robots)

October 7, 2019
By Dan Mantz Sep 30, 2019 Women make up half of the total U.S. college-educated workforce today but hold only a quarter of the science and engineering jobs. With careers of the future heavily ...
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How One Teacher is Inspiring Girls’ Futures to Engineer a Better World

February 15, 2018
Nadine Amaya is an elementary school teacher of gifted students at Oak Grove Lower Elementary School in Hattiesburg, MS and spends countless hours working with her VEX IQ Challenge and Girl Powered t...
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Techna PWN Robotics Team 3018V Explores CAD Application Through Online Challenge!

December 21, 2015
Greenville, TX – December 21, 2015 – One of the more seasoned and experienced teams in the VEX Robotics Competition, VEXcalibur—Team 3018V from Council Bluffs, Iowa—has participated for t...
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How the REC Foundation is Inspiring the Next Generation of STEM Students

December 18, 2019
Recently, Dan Mantz, the CEO and Chairman of REC, sat down with Dallas Business Journal Market President & Publisher Ollie Chandhok to discuss how the Foundation allows students to design and inn...
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International Day of the Girl

October 9, 2017
In celebration of International Day of the Girl, the Girl Powered team is excited to connect with students across the globe who have a potential interest in robotics and STEM. The power of girls inte...
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Inspirational Women in STEM and Tech: Lisa Schultz of the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation On The 5 Leadership Lessons She Learned From Her Experience

February 11, 2021
Lisa Schultz is the Director of Regional Operations at the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation. She applies her previous career experiences as a mechanical engineer and high school ...
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International Women’s Day

March 8, 2018
For International Women’s Day we’re featuring a VEX student from Team 3818 at International School Manila. She explains how robotics has grown her passion for STEM and the many opportunit...
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The Robotics Education & Competition Foundation Chooses Hawaii to Host the “VEX Robotics Summer Games”

January 22, 2014
ROCKWALL, TEXAS – January 22, 2014 – The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation today announced that the State of Hawaii has been chosen to host the VEX Robotics Summer Games, a premie...
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The University Interscholastic League (UIL) Approves the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation Robotics as a 2022-23 Pilot Program

January 12, 2022
GREENVILLE, Texas, Jan. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation announced today the organization was approved as a University ...
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The REC Foundation Partners to Bring VEX Robotics to School Districts in Florida and Kentucky

September 30, 2015
GREENVILLE, TX – September 30, 2015 – The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation announced partnerships with two school districts in Florida and Kentucky to bring the VEX IQ Challenge ...
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The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation Receives a Nearly $750K Grant from Texas Workforce Commission to Expand Robotics Throughout Texas

September 8, 2020
Greenville, TX – September 3, 2020: The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation announced today that it is partnering with the Texadds Workforce Commission’s Texas Youth Robotics Initia...
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The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation Receives a Nearly $700K Grant from Texas Workforce Commission to Continue Expanding Robotics Throughout Texas

September 18, 2021
GREENVILLE, Texas, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation announced today that it is partnering with the Texas Workforc...
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The DARPA Robotics Challenge Begins Today! Will It Include You?

November 16, 2012
Robot enthusiasts, the time has come. The DARPA Robotics Challenge begins today. Will you be part of it? Over the next two years, teams will compete to develop and put to the test hardware and sof...
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The REC Foundation Announces the 2015 Online Challenge Winners

March 4, 2015
GREENVILLE, TX – March 4, 2015 – The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Online Challenges, which encourages students to apply what th...
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The REC Foundation and the U.S. Army Increase a Partnership to Support 15 Regional Events and the 2015 VEX Robotics World Championship

November 20, 2014
GREENVILLE, Texas – November 20, 2014 – The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation and the U.S. Army today announced a partnership expansion to support more than 15 regional VEX Roboti...
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The REC Foundation and SySTEMic Solutions Run Event at First Ever Philadelphia 76ers Robotics Night

March 18, 2015
On March 13, the Philadelphia 76ers held their first ever Robotics Night to raise STEM awareness. The 76ers gave us use of the court from 12-3 p.m. to setup, run the tournament, and break down. At 12...
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The International VEX Robotics Summer Games to Feature Over 100 Teams From Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt, Lebanon, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the United States Mainland and Hawaii

June 26, 2014
ROCKWALL, Texas – June 26, 2014 – The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation and Friends of Hawaii Robotics today announced that the International VEX Robotics Summer Games will welcom...
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The 2014 REC Foundation and Robomatter Scholarship Winner is Cameron Akker of Redmond, Washington

June 11, 2014
Cameron Akker is the 2014 REC Foundation-RoboMatter scholarship recipient and will receive $5,000 intended for students pursuing a degree related to science, technology, engineering or mathemati...
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Meet the Girl Powered Team Feature: Veronica Andrulat

October 15, 2020
If we could rewind to January 2016, and you told me I would work for a robotics company, I would tell you that you’re crazy! I didn’t really know what “robotics” was. I was studying Video Production ...
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The REC Foundation Announces the 2015 Texas Instruments Scholarship Winners

May 12, 2015
GREENVILLE, TX – May 12, 2015 – The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Texas Instruments Scholarships, which encourages students to s...
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More than A Pledge

August 10, 2018
We are working to bring all students who are interested in STEM together, because a more diverse robotics community, is a better community. We can’t do it alone though. We need your support ...
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2025-2026 Signature Event Updates

  1. An Event Partner wanting to apply to host a Signature Event must have hosted events for at least 2 seasons prior to applying. 
  2. Signature Events must use the officially branded award banners for the Excellence Award and Tournament/Teamwork Champions Award.
  3. When hanging field skirts the VEX Robotics logo/brand name can not be covered up on the competition fields.
  4. VEX V5 Robotics Competition Signature Events may have regional capacity and max per organization restrictions lifted 8 weeks before the event if the event is not full (similar to the process already in place for VEX IQ Robotics Competition Signature Events).
  5. Minimum pit size reduced to 8’x 8’ instead of 10’x10’.
  6. Beginning in the 2025-2026 season, the REC Foundation will collect $10 instead of $5 per team registration on all Signature Events. This is to help offset travel costs for REC Foundation staff to support these larger events.

2025-2026 Signature Event Application Reminders

  1. Existing Signature Events only need to complete the Final Application (due by March 31, 2025)
  2. New Signature Event concepts will need to complete the Initial Proposal by January 31, 2025 and if approved, complete the Final Application by March 31, 2025.
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