15 Indiana schools with more than 54 teams met for one of the largest elementary robotics competitions. The VEX IQ program started seven years ago at Riverside Intermediate, where four students ...

Robotics projects are designed so every team in the country gets their instructions and materials to build their robots at the same time.

VEX IQ is a robotics program designed for elementary and middle school students, where teams build and program robots to compete in a series of challenges.

In the VEX IQ Competition, students – with guidance from their teachers and mentors – build a robot using simple, snap-together VEX IQ parts to solve an engineering challenge.