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VEX Robotics @vex.com · 23h

VEX AIM just got an exciting update: robot-to-robot communication! 🤩 How does this impact your classroom? It helps students think in systems and build collaboration skills!

📽️ Read the full article here (no subscription required): buff.ly/d61kWtt

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VEX Robotics @vex.com · 1d

🔴 Register VEX V5 Robotics Competition Teams: buff.ly/PloOeDG
🔵 Register VEX IQ Robotics Competition Teams: buff.ly/4gXaFwv
🔴 Register VEX U Robotics Competition Teams: buff.ly/SN4r4m0

VEX Robotics @vex.com · 1d

Is your team registered for this season? 👀 Make sure to mark your calendars, registration closes December 19th! Get your team registered before then and prepare for an amazing season! 🤖🌟

Learn how to register your team in these articles from the REC Foundation ⬇️

A student in a blue shirt smiles at a volunteer in a yellow shirt inspecting her VEX V5 robot.

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VEX Robotics @vex.com · 6d

VEX IQ Pneumatics give your builds an air-powered boost! 💪 Add fast, powerful linear motion to your robot's claw, intake, or other mechanism!

🤖 Learn more or get your VEX IQ Pneumatics Kit here: buff.ly/syabUq1

A VEX IQ Robot equipped with pneumatics sits on a white table in front of an IQ Kit next to a computer displaying VEXcode IQ, controller, and cube.

VEX Robotics @vex.com · 7d

The VEX AIM Classroom Bundle is an all-in-one classroom coding robot solution, with everything needed to get teaching with VEX AIM!

🤖 Get your VEX AIM Classroom Bundle here: buff.ly/iagfn73
👀 Or get a full overview of what's included here: buff.ly/50AwsWb

VEX Robotics @vex.com · 8d

We're proud to support the JROTC and the next generation of leaders by offering VEX V5 Robotics Competitions to these amazing cadets! 💪

📽️ Full video: buff.ly/6Kvda5u
🤖 Learn how you can get involved here: buff.ly/0GNZHSM

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VEX Robotics @vex.com · 14d

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VEX Robotics @vex.com · 14d

The Highlander Summit Signature Event earlier this month in Newark, NJ was an incredible showcase of engineering talent! 🌟

👀 The season is in full swing! Keep track of this season's Signature Events' results here: news.vex.com/2025/09/24/2...

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VEX Robotics @vex.com · 16d

Across classrooms, research labs, and global events, VEX AIM helps educators, researchers, and innovators connect abstract concepts to concrete experiences. Learn more in this VEX PD+ Insights article by Jason McKenna (no subscription required): pd.vex.com/insights/vex...

A hand presses a finger to the screen on top of a VEX AIM Robot. There are AprilTag Signs to the left, a soccer ball in the background, and orange barrels scattered throughout.

VEX Robotics @vex.com · 20d

The VEX AIM Classroom Bundle is an all-in-one classroom coding robot solution! 🤖🌟 Equipped with an AI Vision Sensor, multiple ways to code, and more, this powerful robot helps coders of any ability level explore computer science!

🏫 Order yours here: www.vexrobotics.com/aim-bundles....

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VEX Robotics @vex.com · 23d

Same competitive spirit. New frontier. 😤

👀 Sign up to be first in line for the VEX AIR game reveal: vexrobotics.com/air

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VEX Robotics @vex.com · 26d

In a new article, VP of Global Educational Strategy Jason McKenna investigates a new study that reveals the disconnect between data and lived reality in relation to test scores and teaching methods.

🗞️ Read here:

When “no effect” doesn’t mean no impact: Rethinking how we judge school

A new study illustrates the fact that many schools are measuring the wrong things.

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VEX Robotics @vex.com · 27d

Catch Lily, an Electrical Engineering Intern, on our new series Next Iteration, where she discusses her path getting into engineering and some of the lessons she's gained through her internship!

📽️ Watch the full video here: buff.ly/14P3cU1

VEX Robotics @vex.com · 29d

In this edition of Next Iteration, Electrical Engineering Intern Brandon describes the value he sees from learning from seasoned engineers. 🧠⚡

📽️ Watch the full video here: buff.ly/o74zAEh

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VEX Robotics @vex.com · Sep 2

3D Build Instructions provide clear, concise step-by-step directions for builds like this season's Hero Bots, Huey and Dex! 🤖🪛 Zoom, rotate, jump to a step, and click to see what part is in use—it's that easy to get building!

🛠️ Get started at builds.vex.com!

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VEX Robotics @vex.com · Sep 1

If you know robotics, you know hard work! 💪 Enjoy your VERY well-deserved Labor Day, VEX Community! 🔧⚙️

A teenage boy with glasses and short black hair works on a VEX V5 robot with a screwdriver.

VEX Robotics @vex.com · Aug 29

Each year, #VEXWorlds brings together incredible young engineers from all around the world to compete under one roof for an experience like no other! 🤖🏆

📽️ Catch the full video here: buff.ly/DY5Ff1g

VEX Robotics @vex.com · Aug 8

Exciting news! 🤩 VEX AIM Classroom Bundles are now available for order! Bring hands-on computer science education to your classroom—just in time for a new school year! 💪

🤖 Order yours here: buff.ly/KcPcDHx

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VEX Robotics @vex.com · Aug 6

Interested in bringing the thrill of robotics into daily instruction? Send a vote our way in the #SXSWEDU 2026 #PanelPicker! 🌟🏫

💓 Cast your vote by Aug. 24: buff.ly/liAwRnG

VEX Robotics @vex.com · Aug 1

Let the games begin! 🔥 Our first Signature Event of the 2025-2026 season is underway! Good luck to the teams competing at the University of North Dakota Signature at the Mall of America and enjoy this throwback to 2024! 💪

👀 See this season's Signature Events here: buff.ly/5EmFe0c

VEX Robotics @vex.com · Jul 22

Keep the CTE learning going year-round! 🤩 VEX Camps bring engaging, thematic STEM activities to your students throughout the year and the Pack 'n Ship Challenge Camp is designed just for the VEX CTE Workcell! 🤖💪

🏕️ Get started here: buff.ly/znwoC8u

VEX Robotics @vex.com · Jul 18

VEXcode might look a little bit different this school year! 👀 We have some important updates coming to make VEXcode more accessible, user-friendly, and efficient for all learners!

🗞️ Get a sneak peek at these updates here (no subscription required): buff.ly/EdF7roi

VEX Robotics @vex.com · Jul 16

Early elementary educators in Alabama are bringing computer science to students as early as kindergarten using VEX 123 through a new program developed by Auburn University. 🤖💻

📖 Learn more here: wire.auburn.edu/content/cosa...
🌟 Check out VEX 123 here: buff.ly/0Fcyn6X

VEX Robotics @vex.com · Jul 14

Get ideas for fun and easy ways to reuse past seasons' game elements in a new VEX PD+ Insights article! 💡✨ Bring new life to the pieces of games gone by and clear space for the current games!

📰 Read here (no subscription required): pd.vex.com/insights/rep...

VEX Robotics @vex.com · Jul 7

In early June, over 40 teams from around the world competed in the 2025 VEX AI Robotics Competition Championship in Houston, TX! 🤖🏆 These boundary-pushing teams competed using high-level autonomous programming!

Learn how to get involved with VAIRC here: buff.ly/EJDnBsH