The VEX robotics competition brought together more than 30 teams from Connecticut and Massachusetts high schools that competed in individual and team challenges. Teams also had the opportunity to ...

“VEX Robotics is a worldwide organization, and these teams of students build robots to participate in a game, and the game is the same throughout the nation,” Gruber said.

According to VEX Robotics, students designed and built a robot to compete in a Vex IQ competition. They would play against other teams' robots in game-based engineering challenges.

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation recognized the VEX IQ Challenge (VIQC) elementary and middle school world champions.