Save the date for the Vex Robotics Competition Skyrise Challenge
This Saturday 29 November 2014, high school robotics teams across Melbourne, New South Wales and Canberra will meet to compete in the Vex Robotics Competition Skyrise Challenge 2014- 2015. This event is organized by Robotics Club Australia. The action-packed tournament will feature teams who will compete with and against other schools in a series of […]
Robotics Teacher Professional Development Courses
At Robotics Club, we provide Professional Development (PD) Courses in Robotics for teachers. We have a range of teacher PDs for robotics platforms such as Vex IQ, Vex, Robot Virtual Worlds and Lego Mindstorms EV3. Robotics Club has provided teachers from several top schools in Melbourne with PD's to help them implement robotics in the […]
Vex Robots Engage Kids At Expo
Everywhere the Vex robots show up, kids never leave them alone. Such is the power of the Vex robot! Why? Kids will tell you after trying it out for themselves how cool Vex robots are. Vex robots give kids the power to drive them around and is a totally interactive and engaging robot. Vex robots […]
The Preparation Begins For Vex Robotics Competition Skyrise Challenge
Robotics Club hosted a season of scrimmages held in two different schools for the Skyrise Challenge which is the VRC 2014-2015 season. Scrimmages were held at Hillcrest Christian College and Emmaus College which saw several high schools bring along their robots for some try-outs and build sessions. Coaches were also helping one another's teams with […]
Holiday Camps Melbourne – Student Testimonials Part 2
I really enjoyed doing the Vex IQ program. First we learnt about what we were doing and then I paired up with Jules and we made a clawbot. We then made our own modifications and I programmed it to pick up two balls and put them in our innovated ball carrier, by autopilot. We used […]
Innovate Tech Camp Teens visit Autodesk to learn about design
The Vex Robotics Teen Camp was held over the last three days with teens building a Vex robot, performing a mini-skyrise challenge and doing programming with ROBOT C. The teen tech camp concluded with an exclusive industry tour of Autodesk. The teen campers, combined with some of our tech camp alumni and Robotics Club members […]
Spring Holiday Programs 2014
Innovate Tech Camps and Robotics Club's Spring technology camps for kids and teens starts tomorrow! We are certainly looking forward to this exciting adventure in the next week and a half. We are starting the Young Explorer program tomorrow which has Cubelets (modular robotics) and electronics and lots of projects to complete. Oooh what exploration! […]
The Vex IQ Robot, A STEM Phenomena
The VEX IQ robot comes with structural elements which snap together making it easy to assemble and disassemble easily. With a variety of sensors such as the distance sensor, the colour sensor and the gyro sensor among others, the Vex IQ robots excites students to play with them and explore different possibilities. The best part […]
Vex Robotics Competition – Young Innovators at their best
Welcome to the world of VRC (Vex Robotics Competition)! Check out the great clip which was put together by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation (REC Foundation). Vex Robotics World Championships Highlights See if you can spot our very own Australian team and feast your eyes on the wide array of fantastic robots […]
High School Career Fair
Robotics Club was invited to be part of a High School Career Fair. Yes, we showed up with our Vex robots, ready to inspire teens on career options related to a robotics education. Wow, was our booth a hit (feedback by the organizer)! There was never a dull moment as many teens took on our […]