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Competition

Learn about the REC Foundation’s robotics and drone competition programs.

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General Information

VEX Worlds Information All You Need to Know About the World’s Largest Robotics Comeptition Discover essential details for participants, spectators, and volunteers about the VEX Robotics World Championship. Find everything…

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JROTC

The REC Foundation is proud to offer the VEX V5 Robotics Competition (V5RC) to Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine, Space Force, and Coast Guard JROTC programs.

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About Us

The Robotics Education & Competition Foundation sparks interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by engaging students in hands-on, sustainable, and affordable curriculum-based robotics programs.

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VEXcode

From elementary school through college, VEXcode is a coding environment that meets students at their level.

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Aerial Drone Competition

The Aerial Drone Competition offers hands-on learning in drone technology, flight, programming, and documentation. Teams explore drone careers while developing workforce skills through teamwork and problem-solving.

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VEX IQ Stem Labs

STEM Labs support educators with free, easy to follow STEM lesson plans that align with educational standards. Each STEM Lab contains hands-on lessons with guided explorations that encourage teamwork and collaboration.

Acceptable Use Policy

Acceptable Use Policy This acceptable use policy covers the products, services, and technologies (collectively referred to as the “Products”) provided by The Robotics Education & Competition Foundation under any ongoing agreement. It’s designed to protect us, our customers, and the general Internet community from unethical, irresponsible, and illegal activity. The Robotics Education & Competition Foundation […]

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Careers

Join the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation team to help inspire and motivate students to excel in STEM education

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Contact Us

Find links here to get the right kind of support from any aspect of the REC Foundation.

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Student-Centered Policy

This policy is intended to increase the awareness of the REC Foundation’s goal of student-centeredness, and to transparently communicate its expectations to students, mentors, and other program participants to maximize the learning opportunities offered by our competition programs.

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Code of Conduct

the REC Foundation considers the positive, respectful, and ethical conduct of all event participants and attendees an important and essential component of all REC Foundation-sanctioned events.

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VEX V5 STEM Labs

STEM Labs support educators with free, easy to follow STEM lesson plans that align with educational standards. Each STEM Lab contains hands-on lessons with guided explorations that encourage teamwork and collaboration.

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Using Tournament Manager Software

The VEX Tournament Manager is a custom software package designed to simplify and automate many of the tasks associated with running a VEX Robotics tournament.

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Other Searches

RobotEvents.Com
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The REC Library
Use the search option at the top of each independent knowledge base in the REC Library to find articles and information about starting teams, competitions, robots, coding, and events.
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Shortcuts is a directry of shortened, memorable links to key RECF.org content for our community.

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.
Crowd watches the Signature Event in Minnesota's Mall of America
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