The VEX Robotics Challenge is a world-renowned engineering competition designed to promote the area of STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths – making these subject areas and future career opportunities more appealing and accessible to young people.
In the months leading up to the Challenge, teams of Year 10 pupils were tasked with using their engineering skills to design, build and programme a remote-controlled robot, solve an engineering challenge – in this case stabilising their robot – and develop strategies for securing the most points in the competition.