On behalf of the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation, welcome to the 2024-2025 VEX IQ Robotics Competition Rapid Relay season, presented by Northrop Grumman Foundation. After an amazing competition season in 2023-24, we are very excited to offer our robotics community a fun and action-packed season.
The VEX IQ Robotics Competition, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, provides primary and secondary school students with exciting, open-ended robotics challenges that enhance their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills through hands-on, student-centred learning.
The VEX IQ Robotics Competition fosters student development of the teamwork, critical thinking, project management, and communication skills required to prepare them to become the next generation of innovators and problem solvers.
VEX IQ Robotics Competition Rapid Relay is played on a 6’ x 8’ rectangular field configured as seen above. Two robots compete in the Teamwork Challenge as an alliance in 60 second long teamwork matches, working collaboratively to score points.
The primary objectives of the game are to Pass the Balls between Robots, score Balls through Targets, and Clear Switches. Balls are introduced to the field through the Loading Station or, during the last 15 seconds of a Match, a Rapid Load Zone.
Teams also compete in the Robot Skills Challenge where one robot takes the field to score as many points as possible. These matches consist of Driving Skills Matches, which will be entirely driver controlled, and Autonomous Coding Skills Matches, which will be autonomous with limited human interaction.
The Game Manual is the rulebook that all teams must adhere to. Everything you need to know to allow you to build a legal robot and to understand the rules of the game is included in this document
New to Robotics? Want to know how to start a team in one of our programmes? Learn how to run a successful VEX IQ Robotics Competition Team with these articles.
The official VEX forum is a place for teams and mentors from all over the world to discuss robot design, strategy and to help and support each other.