Tag: VRC

It’s been a week since I flew home from Orlando and I can finally say that I am caught up on sleep. Recovery takes longer each year but the event has also grown significantly so I can’t blame it all …

Yesterday’s opening ceremony was amazing. The parade of nations was the largest ever with more teams and more nations than last year. Two of new additions this year were the Cherokee Nation and Saudi Arabia. I’m sure there were more, …

Yesterday was exhausting, but we still managed to have some fun. Disney brought out a DJ and lots of confetti fireworks for the opening. It was quite the fanfare with music, stilt dancers, and few Disney characters walking about for …

T minus 2 days and counting. At an hour that more closely resembled my average bed-time, I packed up the family and headed toward the airport this morning. We are on our way to the ESPN Wide World of Sports …

In addition to the head on head competition, the VEX Robotics Competition (VRC) also includes two single bot challenges. Programming Skills tests the team’s bility to write autonomous code to score points. There are white lines on the playing field …