With almost 6 months of building and competing, you will find most robots go through various iterations as the children continually try to improve through the season. Also, during competitions the children will be interviewed to describe how the robot came to being, why the kids made their decisions and what plans they may have to improve their robot going forward. The engineering notebook is a must in VEX again. We will be on hand to help them advance their ideas both from a programming perspective as well as a building perspective. We will do our best to put teams together that will compliment each other's strengths. VEX teams are comprised of 4 members either formed by request or assigned by us. We still help and use these teaching moments to give the kids a deeper understanding of mechanics and engineering.В VEX runs for both the Fall and Winter sessions and requires a commitment to both sessions. At this level we help a little less and point the kids more to resources that they can use to realize their ideas. Competition VEX By Invitation Only (Fall/Winter) With a more complex robot and more complicated games, this is where the kids imagination really blossoms. The goal is to advance the skills of the kids to compete at the very top levels. We will also work on robot specific issues like control theory, complex drive systems, error detection and correction. Concepts like passing variables by reference, arrays, created data types, lists, FIFO, state machines, multi threaded programming. Advanced RobotC (Summer) The content and scope of the classes will be determined more by the kids and what they want to focus on for the next season of competition. Then we move on to various loops and, finally, to functions, passing variables by value. (see our competition page for more info) If you are thinking about competing in robotics at the high school level, RobotC is a must.В Students begin working in C, learn basic syntax, spacing, comments, embedded data types, and conditional statements and how these relate to the robot. Introduction to RobotC (Winter/Summer) This is the language used inВ High School robotics competitions, both VEX and FTC. All power tool usage will be directly supervised by an adult. This is a true lab and students will need to adhere to safety procedures/behavior.

While onsite, students will be cutting metal with drills, rotary tools, jigsaws, and band saws. Best practices of robot construction will be introduced. They will work to construct a drive train, lift, and object manipulator using aluminum. Students will learn the basics of constructing a VEX Competition robot. The course is required to join a competition team in the fall. Introduction to Vex (Spring/Summer) This course is It is a preparatory course for students moving up to a VEX Competition team.

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