Want to join (or create) your own Robotics Team? Now you can!
My kids have participated in both of these (links below) and their team has won the World Championship three times!
My two oldest boys, Ben and Joseph, are too old to participate in VEX (it’s for kids up through 8th grade, and they are in high school now), however they are working on helping new teams get going so they have a chance at these competitions.
Now, if you want to start a team or participate in one in your home town:
This is the robotics program you want to get into if you have elementary and junior high school kids:
VEX IQ Robotics (it’s the least expensive to start out with, and the parts are really similar to LEGOs so kids can really get started without getting lost in the learning curve):
https://www.vexrobotics.com/competition
My kids competed at the Regional, State and Worlds for VEX. They were one of the top 10 teams in the world.
Once your kids hit High School, they will step into an even greater challenge, which is FRC:
https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc
The team my kids were on (973 Greybots) were the “underdogs”, and now they have three World Championship wins under their belt! (2011, 2017, 2019) You can learn more about FRC here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtE6Va6oOhU
Hope this is helpful!