NUAST VEX Robotics Team Success

NUAST VEX Robotics team achieve Excellence Award (Computer Science - 23/11/2022)

NUAST's VEX Robotics team had a successful weekend, attending two events and coming away with the coveted Excellence Award.

Both our KS4/5 and KS3 teams attended separate events over the weekend at King Henry VIII School in Coventry and competed against dozens of other schools.

A team from KS3 were presented with the Excellence Award for exemplary performance in the competition, robot design and programming and have earned themselves a place at the UK National Finals in March 2023. A number of our other teams also placed highly in each of their respective competitions.

Mr Wood, Head of Computing commented: "A massive congratulations to our winning team. They have made huge improvements to their design and worked really hard in just a few short weeks. It has paid off for them at this competition. We are looking forward to competing at a national level in March."

The VEX Robotics Competition is an international robotics challenge that sees teams of students design, build and program robots to complete a timed task against other schools. This years challenge, Slapshot, asks teams to collect disc objects and slide them as far as possible to score points.

More information about the game can be found here: https://www.vexrobotics.com/iq/competition/viqc-current-game