Explore the VEX GO Kit and learn how beams, plates, pins, connectors, wheels, axles, and gears work together. Students complete creative building challenges while learning stability, balance, and the fundamentals of engineering design.

Key skills: Building · Structure · Stability · Wheels and Axles · Gears

Discover how engineers use simple machines to make work easier. Students build and experiment with inclined planes, levers, wheels and axles, and gears while exploring force, motion, and mechanical advantage.

Key skills: Force and Motion · Lever · Wheel and Axle · Gears · Experimentation

Build a VEX GO Code Base and transform it into a creative robotic parade float. Students combine mechanical design with introductory programming while learning how to control distance, movement, and turning.

Key skills: Code Base · Robot Design · Motor Control · Distance · Turning

Discover how robots perform real-world jobs that may be dull, dirty, or dangerous for people. Students build and program a Code Base robot to move through different environments and complete job-based challenges.

Key skills: VEXcode GO · Sequencing · Forward and Reverse · Turning · Problem Solving

Make robots smarter by adding sensors. Students use the LED Bumper and Eye Sensor to detect objects, recognize colors, and make the robot react automatically to its environment.

Key skills: Sensors · Color Detection · Conditions · Autonomous Behavior · Coding

Explore how robotic arms are used to pick up, move, and sort objects. Students progress from a mechanical Robot Arm to motorized and coded versions using motors, the Electromagnet, and Eye Sensor.

Key skills: Robot Arms · Motors · Electromagnet · Sensors · Automation

Become a robotic planetary explorer! Students build and program a Mars Rover to collect, analyze, and sort rock samples using the Eye Sensor and Electromagnet. Students combine mechanical design, sensors, and increasingly advanced programming to complete autonomous missions.

Key skills: Autonomous Coding · Eye Sensor · Electromagnet · Loops · Decision Making

Put everything together in a final robotics challenge. Students build and drive a VEX GO Hero Robot, practice different missions, develop team strategies, and participate in a classroom mini-competition. This project introduces students to competition-style robotics and prepares interested students for their next step into VEX IQ.

Key skills: Hero Robot · Driver Skills · Strategy · Teamwork · Engineering Challenge · Mini Competition

Students explore the VEX GO system and build a competition-style Hero Robot. They learn how the drivetrain, motors, wheels, gears, arm, and other mechanisms work together, then complete introductory driving and control challenges.

Activities: Robot Building · Hero Robot · Driving · Basic Mechanisms · Teamwork · Obstacle Challenge

Students become robotic space explorers. Teams use their Hero Robots to complete Mars-inspired missions such as collecting samples, moving objects, rescuing equipment, and planning efficient scoring routes. The focus shifts from simply driving to mission strategy.

Activities: Mars Missions · Object Manipulation · Driver Skills · Route Planning · Strategy

Students move from driver control to autonomous behavior. Using VEXcode GO and sensors, they program robots to move accurately, detect objects, react to the environment, and complete progressively harder coding missions.

Activities: VEXcode GO · Autonomous Driving · Sensors · Sequencing · Conditions · Debugging

Students redesign their robots for a friendly Sumo-style engineering challenge. Teams experiment with traction, weight distribution, robot shape, gearing, pushing strategy, and defensive design, then improve their robots through repeated test rounds.

Activities: Robot Redesign · Gears · Traction · Strategy · Testing · BattleBot Tournament

Students combine everything learned during the week. Teams improve their robots, practice missions, choose a final strategy, rotate through team roles, and participate in a classroom VEX GO mini-competition with awards and a final reflection.

Activities: Robot Improvement · Driver Practice · Strategy · Teamwork · Competition · Awards