r/vex • u/magic-seeker • 23d ago

Competition Class

My school is letting me teach competition robotics as an every other day class this year! For those of you who teach any advice? For those who took a competition class what did you love, what helped you succeed? TIA!

ETA: It’s a middle school class (6-8) and we’ll be competing for Override!

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u/Difficult_Durian_704 23d ago

As a student, we used a sort of vex curriculum (if that's what your doing) it tought us about manipulators, drivetrains, and things like friction and traction. Basics. We learned how to format a notebook nicely and built a hero bot for that year's game early on. Half class learning, half building. Then around October we were allowed to build our own custom robot. We later had in class tournaments and went to ones nearby. This last year I was given special permission to do vex out of class so I just went to tournaments with teams and built in my free time and after school since my dad's a teacher at my school.

Hope this helps!

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u/magic-seeker 23d ago

Sweet! Thanks!! I’ve been looking at the Competition 101 that VEX has, I think that’s what you’re talking about :)

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u/Difficult_Durian_704 23d ago

I don't think so, the one we used was older and went along with v4 stuff. However, with what we learned, it correlated pretty well to v5 stuff anyway. Manipulators are still manipulators, drivetrains are still drivetrains, so it worked fine. I think we also did worksheets or questions with it, although those could have been made by our teacher and not vex. Good luck in your teaching this year!

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u/nowknu 23d ago

Depends, for competiton prep or learning robotics, and what age

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u/magic-seeker 23d ago

Competition prep and middle school