VEX Robotics World Championship 2025
The 2025 VEX Robotics World Championship, presented by the REC Foundation, will be held May 6-14, 2025, at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. The annual event brings together the top VEX IQ Robotics Competition, VEX V5 Robotics Competition, and VEX U Robotics Competition teams from around the globe to celebrate their accomplishments and be crowned champions.
Following their successful effort at the Red River Valley Regional VEX Robotics tournament held January 24th in East Grand Forks, Minnesota. The Morris School Advanced Robotics Club is off to the VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas Texas next week!
Format of competition
Three members of The Morris School Advanced Robotics Club chatted with CFAM Morning Show co-host Zack Driedger to share some of the deatils on the event: Andrew Hildebrandt (Communications), Cody Dueck (Mechanic and Coder) and Hassaan Mustafa (Chief Coder).
"There's both driver and autonomous skills runs and then there is other runs which are the Two vs Two Alliance Battles. The whole object of skills is to try and score as many rings on our goal posts and push them into each corner, each goal post in a corner gives five points. Each ring gives one point.
And then the whole object of alliance battles is to try and score as much points with your team as possible. So each top runners are worth 3 points in alliance, every other ring is worth 1 point and then trying to push it into the positive corner to get your points multiplied by two. Or take your opponent stakes and push them into the negative corner to take off that many points off of their amount.
The Robot
"So for starters, ours is just a solid metal robot. We haven't done any welding or any of that stuff. It's just your basics. I know my older brother, who's our chief engineer, Josh Hildebrandt. What he did was, he took the chain and noticed it would break too much. So what he did was he actually took several chains and then zip tied them together to make them stronger. That's really our most innovative technique that we've used so far."
"So basically for building a robot, there isn't any welding or stuff like that. It's pretty much, yeah, just screws almost like building Meccano. You have bunch of shafts and use lots of hand tools. There's only a certain number of the motors you can have, so you have to kind of like choose where you want your motors. You can have 88 watts for each of the big motors and 11 watts for the smaller ones. So you can have eight big motors but we have five because we could we got some pneumatics."
