VEX U Educate Online Challenge Sponsored by Robotics Education & Competition Foundation
VEX U teams have a unique opportunity to fabricate their own components for their robots using raw materials such as non-shattering plastic, rubbers, composite materials, steel, aluminum, brass and bronze, along with plastic 3D printed parts. With this opportunity, and the leadership potential they have to advance the interest and involvement of STEM to high school students, we invite the VEX U teams to educate VRC teams on how to work through the design process of fabricating a unique part for a VEX U or VEX AI Competition (VAIC) robot.
Submissions for this challenge will be written from the perspective of teaching the design process involved in selecting a component on the robot for custom fabrication. There should be a compelling reason on why that custom part is needed, why the raw material was selected, what equipment is used and how that raw material is fabricated into a new component that improves the robot beyond what a commercially available product could do.
*Your entry may be shared by the REC Foundation to help promote VEX U and the VAIC programs in the mission of increasing students’ interest and involvement in STEM.
