About VEX Robotics
VEX is an national robotics competition in which students from 7-12th grade build a robot and compete in a game every year. At Raisbeck Aviation High School, students are required to participate on the VEX team for a year before moving up to FRC. Because students are exposed to all of the sub-teams used in FRC, it provides both leadership opportunities and an introduction to robotics for freshmen. VEX students learn the engineering design process, an eleven step structure that engineers use to make decisions in both higher level robotics and in the workplace.
2015 Game "Nothing But Net"
The VEX 2015 game, "Nothing But Net," is a game in which two randomly selected teams are put on an alliance to play a game against another randomly selected alliance. The teams play on a 12' by 12' field where goals are scored by shooting balls in a high and low goal and raising the other robot into the air. Teams will work together to prototype, design and build, and program a robot that will compete against other robots.