The VEX Robotics Competition is a high school robotics competition organized by Innovation FIRST and RobotEvents.com. Teams of mentors (corporate employees, teachers, or college students) and high school/middle school students collaborate together to design and build a robot using standard VEX kit of parts. The game details changes every year.
Projects
Fat Boy & Tall Man
VEX College, 2010 - Clean Sweep
Rice Robotics Club's robot team entries for the 2010 VEX College World Championship. Robot picks up orange footballs and green balls and hurdles them over a 1 foot wall. Team won the World Sportsmanship Award.
VEX College, 2010 - Clean Sweep
Rice Robotics Club's robot team entries for the 2010 VEX College World Championship. Robot picks up orange footballs and green balls and hurdles them over a 1 foot wall. Team won the World Sportsmanship Award.
Undertaker & Overtaker
VEX College, 2009 - Elevation
Rice Robotics Club's Undertaker & Overtaker robot entries for the 2009 VEX College World Championship. Robot picks up 3" foam cubes and stacks them over triangle goals. Team won the World Championship Finalist Award and the Think Award.
VEX College, 2009 - Elevation
Rice Robotics Club's Undertaker & Overtaker robot entries for the 2009 VEX College World Championship. Robot picks up 3" foam cubes and stacks them over triangle goals. Team won the World Championship Finalist Award and the Think Award.
Disco Cube
VEX, 2008 - Elevation
Rookie year Lamar High School (FRC#2587). Robot picks up 3" foam cubes and stacks them over triangle goals. Team won the Houston VEX Regional (with 1429) and the Programming Skills Challenge.
VEX, 2008 - Elevation
Rookie year Lamar High School (FRC#2587). Robot picks up 3" foam cubes and stacks them over triangle goals. Team won the Houston VEX Regional (with 1429) and the Programming Skills Challenge.
RamRod
DPRG, RoboRama 2005
This was a vex robot before the VEX Robotics competition existed. One of the first Vex robots to compete in DPRG. Competed in all tasks of RoboRama including Quick Trip, Line Following, Wall Following, Time run, Can Retrieval. Won 2nd place overall.
DPRG, RoboRama 2005
This was a vex robot before the VEX Robotics competition existed. One of the first Vex robots to compete in DPRG. Competed in all tasks of RoboRama including Quick Trip, Line Following, Wall Following, Time run, Can Retrieval. Won 2nd place overall.