VEX Robotics At Jenison Schools

Congratulations To
Team 457B "Party Pasta"

Qualified For World's 2025!

Team 457B
"Party Pasta"
Congrats to team 457B - They qualified for the World Championships at the Michigan Middle School State Championship held in February 2025!

2023 Vex IQ
For Students In Grades 4-6

VEX IQ Details

Learn to design, build, program, and test a robot to compete with other robots!
Get involved with various robot related skill challenges and competitions
Practices are twice a week, except for league weeks, where practice will be once a week.
Volunteer Parent Coached, we can't do this without your help!
Compete in 4 league night competitions beginning in October and ending in November.
Compete in a full day tournament here at Jenison Junior High - December 9th, 2023
Teams will be made based on grade, number of participants, and number of coaches!
Parental involvement is encouraged throughout the season. We need parents to volunteer at either 2 league nights or for half the day at our Jenison Tournament.

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Congratulations To The Elementary Teams League Award Winners!

Our 2024-25 elementary teams competed in their final league night of the season. Six of our teams took home awards!

Congratulations to:

1195C Fusion Link - Teamwork 2nd Place - Hudsonville League
1443A the Axolotls - Teamwork Champion and Robot Skills Champion - Hudsonville League
1990C The NPC's - Teamwork Champion - Jenison League
2370B Spherical Ballerz - Excellence Award - Jenison League
1143D Cyber Mechanics - Teamwork 2nd Place and Amaze Award - Grandville League
1990D Neon Bananas - Build Award - Grandville League

World Championship Fundraiser 2025

This year the Jenison Robotics Program located in Jenison, Michigan has a junior high school team that qualified for the Vex Robotics World Championship in Dallas, Texas in May. These young men and women have worked countless hours, building, engineering, programming, driving, strategizing, documenting, and pouring into their robots and team to be some of the very best in the state, earning them a chance to compete on the World’s Vex Robotics Stage!

As with any global competition, a cost is associated. It will cost approximately $13,000 for registration, travel, uniforms, hotels, meals, and expenses to send these amazing young people to Dallas for a chance to fulfill their dreams. We are asking all of you to partner with us and support these remarkable individuals.

The competition is quickly approaching and is held the first week of May. Our teams will be perfecting their robots, practicing, re-engineering, and re-programming during this time. They will also be doing traditional fundraising at this time (pop can drives, burrito sales, local restaurant fundraisers, etc.) We hope to raise at least $6,500 (half of our goal) from this effort. Financial support for this event is strictly raised from fundraising efforts.

Thank you for considering supporting these amazing young men and women. Any donation made is tax-deductible.

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What Is VEX?

VEX Competitions bring STEM skills to life by tasking teams of students with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. The VEX Robotics Competition is the biggest and fastest growing robotics competition in the world, currently with over 16,000 teams competing in over 40 countries.

The VEX Robotics World Championship now holds the Guinness World Record for the largest robotics competition on Earth. Over 20,000 participants from 1,100 teams representing 30 nations travelled to Louisville, KY in 2016 for the chance to be crowned world champion! For Spring 2019, Jenison has qualified and sent 5 teams to these World Championships!

VEX Robotics partners with the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing student interest and involvement in STEM programs. The REC Foundation manages the VEX IQ Challenge (for elementary school students), the VEX Robotics Competition (for middle-school and high-school students) and VEX U (for University students). This continuum of programs enables students of all ages to use VEX to compete against their peers around the world.

Become A Jenison Robotics Sponsor!

Jenison has hundreds of students particioate every year! Help sponsor the program today!

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Thank you to this years sponsors!

What is a VEX Competition?

A VEX competition is an event where the robots play against each other in a match of skill. The robots do not damage each other.

The Jenison 4th-6th grade student teams are entered into VEX IQ competitions that see students work TOGETHER with other teams robots, to maximize their score. Typically, the teams robots will get a chance to run several Partnership Challenge, and Skill Challenge matches, with the robot that gets the highest accumulated score at the end of a competition receiving recognition. Teams do not "lose" matches, but recognition is given out to teams that display certain skill sets including, design, creativity, and teamwork.

The Jenison 7th-12th grade student teams are entered into VEX VRC competitions. Standard Matches are played between red and blue robot alliances that compete against each other to score points. Alliances are randomly formed of two robots each. Typically, the teams robots will get a chance to run several Standard Matches, and Skill Challenge matches, with the robot that gets the highest accumulated score at the end of a competition receiving recognition. Teams can also receive recognition for displaying certain skill sets including, design, creativity, and teamwork.

There are also "online" and other STEM related projects that the teams of all grades can participate in as well.

The Fall
-Winter
2024-25 VEX Challenges

Grades 4-6

"Rapid Relay"
2024-2025 VEX IQ Challenge

For Grades 4-6, the VEX IQ program forms teams to compete in VEX IQ Challenges. We also offer a one week "summer camp" each year.

The VEX IQ Fall season starts at the beginning of September, with team practices to build and test the robots. The 4-week leagues start in October, with a league championship tournament in November. There is also a separate, all day tournament scheduled for late November, which all teams participate in.

Registration for Fall 2024 will be at the beginning of the school year.

VEX IQ
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Grades 7-12

"High Stakes"
The 2024-2025 VEX VRC Challenge

For Grades 7-12, our VEX VRC program forms teams to compete in VEX Robotics Competitions (VRC). Applications are available each Spring.

The teams start working on their robots early August, with the first competitive "league nights" starting in early October.

The teams compete in their league championships, and at least two all day tournaments.

Applications for Fall 2023 are due May 31, 2024.

VEX VRC
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VEX Robotics At Jenison Schools

Congratulations To Team 457B "Party Pasta"Qualified For World's 2025!

Team 457B "Party Pasta"

2023 Vex IQ For Students In Grades 4-6