VEX IQ:
See how one robot can change the course of a student’s life. In the VEX IQ Competition, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. STEM concepts are put to the test as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more. Tournaments are held year-round at the regional, state, and national levels and culminate at the VEX Robotics World Championship each April!
Join Grandville VEX IQ!
Robotics Teams for Grandville 4th through 6th graders!
Our VEX IQ teams are fun! You will be teamed up with classmates from your elementary school and then:
The Game:
VEX IQ Competition Slapshot is played on a 6’ x 8’ rectangular field configured as seen above. Two robots compete in the Teamwork Challenge as an alliance in 60 second long teamwork matches, working collaboratively to score points.
Teams also compete in the Robot Skills Challenge where one robot takes the field to score as many points as possible. These matches consist of Driving Skills Matches, which will be entirely driver controlled, and Programming Skills Matches, which will be autonomous with limited human interaction.
The Details:
The scoring objects in VEX IQ Competition Slapshot are 2.5” (6.35 cm) diameter Discs. There are a total of (45) Discs on the field. The object of the game is to score as many points as possible with your alliance partner by scoring Discs in Goal Zones, removing Discs and touching Contact Zones at the end of the Match.
Scoring:
| Each Disc Scored in a Goal Zone | The Point value corresponding to that Goal Zone |
| Each Disc Removed from a Dispenser | 1 Point |
| Each Robot that achieves the Contact Bonus | Additional 1 point per Disc that is Scored in the corresponding Goal Zone |
Our elementary robotics teams are coached by volunteer parent coaches. Please consider coaching your child’s team this year.
The VEX IQ 2022-2023 game, Slapshot, was unveiled last April at the 2022 World Championship. Game rules can be found here.