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5. My World: The Story of a VEX IQ Experience

My World: The Story of a VEX IQ Experience   Year one: Sandpiper Elementary School #2014   This two and a half-year experience started when I was in fourth grade in Sandpiper Elementary School. I had no idea of how much VEX IQ would change my life. My dad, a software engineer, had just signed me and my brother Jake, who was in fifth  grade, for the newly-started robotics club. On my first day, I met my teammates. There was Inara, Grace, Jay, Zack, Jake, and of course, me. Our mentor was my dad. We started with the basic clawbot from the manual to get to know the pieces. Back then I thought that VEX IQ pieces were like Lego, except you had to add the “bumps” on yourself....