Australian Team Emerges Top 3 at Vex IQ Robotics Competition, USA

Australian Team Emerges in Top 3 at Vex World Robotics Competition in Louisville, Kentucky Melbourne, Australia – 26 April 2016 – Innovate Technology and Robotics Academy, Innovate Ahead Group Pty Ltd Two students from Innovate Technology and Robotics Academy based in Melbourne, were in Louisville, Kentucky to represent Australia at the Vex Robotics World Championships […]

VEX Worlds 2016 – Our VEX IQ World Champions! No.3 in the world

Check out our Australian team doing Australia proud at the world's largest robotics competition!   The VEX Robotics Competition (VRC) has become the world's largest robotics competition! The competition generates an enormous amount of dedication and passion towards robotics and STEM education. There were 1072 teams competing in the VRC in Louisville, Kentucky over the […]

Robotics Achievements at the Asia Pacific Robotics Championships

At the recently concluded Asia Pacific Robotics Championships, we were very proud to place Australian teams on the map for robotics. Not only did Australia have representation at the Asia Pacific Robotics Championships, but we are estatic to announce the following Australian team winners: Team 7479 of Hillcrest Christian College won the Judges’ Award – […]

A year of robotics, coding, electronics, STEM and STEAM

We, Team Innovate, would like to thank all our students, parents, primary and high schools under our programs and supporters for such an incredible year. We’ve had 4 seasons of tech camps, weekly after school programs every term, launched Maker Days for kids, become the Official littleBits Melbourne Chapter, run 2 Vex IQ qualifier events, […]

Asia Pacific Robotics Championships at Melbourne Showgrounds

Just over the last week, we welcomed more than 200 robotics teams from countries in the Asia Pacific who flew into Melbourne for the Asia Pacific Robotics Championships at the Melbourne Showgrounds. It was truly an amazing experience to see more than 200 robots! The first day saw teams check in, have their robots inspected […]

Vex IQ Bankshot Qualifier Competition

The Vex IQ 2015 – 2016 Bankshot Qualifier was held yesterday at Forest Hill College. Middle school teams competed in the Vex IQ game, Bankshot. It was truly a fun-filled and action packed day as we finished 30 rounds of qualifying games and another several rounds of robot skills. We would like to congratulate teams […]

Inaugural Vex IQ Robotics Australian National Championships

On Friday 20 March 2015, the inaugural Vex IQ Australian National Championships was held at The Peninsula School. Teams got together to play the Highrise Challenge game (2014-2015 Season). The day came together nicely as teams displayed graciousness, teamwork, problem solving skills and great project work. Teams put in much effort into their projects and […]

Robot Performance Award

Robot Performance Awards are given based on a team's performance in the Teamwork Challenge, Robot Skills Challenge, and Programming Skills Challenge matches. One of these awards will be given at next week's Vex IQ Australian National Championships is the following: Robot Performance Award: Top Robot Skills Challenge Team. Stay tuned to find out who will […]

Design Award – Vex IQ Competition

A preview of some of the awards to be won at the coming Vex IQ Robotics Competition The Design Award: Team with a professional design approach documented in the Engineering Notebook. The Design Award is presented to a team that uses the Engineering Notebook to demonstrate an organized and effective approach to the robot design […]

STEM Research Project Award

Robotics Club is pleased to be organizing the first Vex IQ Australian Championships on 20 March at The Peninsula School. The Vex IQ Robotics Competition is where middle school students gather to compete for some very special awards which celebrate their hard work, problem solving skills and celebrates teamwork. One of the awards at this […]