Grant Cox: The VEX Robotics Competition is
an opportunity for students from all around
the world to showcase their STEM problem solving
abilities.
These kids are so excited to be here.
We create a game that the students have to
design, build and program a robot to play,
with and against other teams all around the
world.
Dan Mantz: The quality of play has been amazing,
but more importantly it’s been the enthusiasm
and friendship building.
Our program this year started with over twenty
thousand teams and through our tournaments,
our regional events, and our state championships,
the top sixteen hundred teams qualified for
this event.
Chaos Theory: Wow!
This is VEX Worlds!
It’s a whole different ball game.
We walk in and you just see all these teams,
all these different robots, all these different
nations.
Zuleah: The moment I first walked in this
building I thought it wasn’t real that I
made it to VEX worlds, because we had been
dreaming of this.
Matthew Bell: You can just see from going
around and meeting the students whether they’re
seven years old, seventeen years old, or they’re
in University already, we’re able to engage
and excite them through robotics and that
is really imperative because we want to empower
young people around the world to make really
anything.
Tim Friez: At the end of the day this doesn’t
have to be work, it can be enjoying it can
be fun.
You can go after your passion and still have
it make an impact not only on yourself but
also on others.
Ally Ward: We always look toward technology
to solve everything from critical disease
to just minor annoyances, not only will they
be changing the future, but also they can
kind of get behind causes that important to
them.
You could be a roboticist in so many different
fields!
Ramona Hutchins: This has really been life-changing
for them in terms of experiences.
Now most my students are saying I wanna become
a mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer,
a biomedical engineer.
These are possibilities now!
Shivakumar Venkataraman: I can hire these
kids that are coming out these programs directly
into the workforce because they have all the
skills that we look for.
They know how to work in a team, they know
how to program, they know how to deal with
real world systems.
They also know how to deal with failures more
importantly.
Denny Vasquez: What we are trying to bring
out in our students is the ability to be job
ready.
Whether it’s VEX or anything else, the work
is the same.
Commander Owens: I cannot tell you how impressed
we’ve been by the caliber of students that
we’ve seen here, its amazing.
The time the dedication the perseverance is
exactly the kind of things we’re looking
for in the US Navy.
Harshal Chhayl: It shows them that everyone
brings their own skillset.
Somebody’s better at one thing somebody’s
better at something else but they work together
and it builds their confidence in solving
problems.
Ayah Badir: The VEX products are doing an
incredible job inspiring kids to problem solve,
to iterate, to basically create robots that
are very particular.
Paul Copioli: VEX Robotics’ vision is to
get every student the ability to do robotics
in elementary school, middle school, and high
school.
In order to achieve that we can’t just make
hardware, we need to provide support materials
like curriculum, activities, professional
development.
Matthew Bevin: It’s my responsibility and
I think everybody responsibility to make sure
that we provide on-ramps to give the opportunities
to provide the solutions that the worlds needs
for the 21st century and beyond.
Amanda Morrison: VEX Robotics is so much more
than a competition.
It’s a community of people working together
to make sure that the next generation, is
the best generation.
