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Competition with a Purpose!
A VEX IQ robot playing the Squared Away Challenge
Speed and Control
Each year, students can design and build a robot to play against other teams in a game-
based engineering challenge presented by the Robotic Education and Competition (REC)
Foundation. Tournaments are held year-round at the regional, state, and national levels
leading to the VEX Robotics World Championship each April.
The VEX IQ Challenge is played on a 4’x8’ rectangular field. Teams program their robots to
move around the field grabbing, tossing, and placing game pieces in scoring zones in order
to earn the most points.
In the 2019-2020 challenge entitled Squared Away, teams have to move balls in the squares
as well as on top of the squares. Like Italy’s Trash Robot, the driver will purposefully move
and teams will work together to collect and move the squares into the correct color space at
the corners of the board.
