Pinal County Library District: Robotics

Get engineering with VEX Robotics!

Working in teams, kids ages 10-13 plan, record, and solve practical problems using robots. Robotics uses VEX IQ Generation 2 robot kits to learn the basics of robot design and problem solving. Participants will be divided into teams and work together to build and modify a VEX IQ robot to complete a given challenge (using various VEX IQ challenge sets). Participants will be expected to keep “engineering” notebooks detailing progress they make in both design choices and construction of their robot with each member of the team taking turns acting as the “recorder” for the notebook. The focus of the program is in learning and understanding the engineering design process, particularly iterative design, through hands-on problem solving. All participants should have basic reading and writing skills (3rd/4th grade level) as well as math skills (addition/subtraction).