Competencias De Vex

VEX Robotics Competition – Round Up

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VEX Robotics Competition – Round Up

Table of Contents
Section 1 – Introduction
Section 2 – The Game
Section 3 – The Tournament
Section 4 – The Robot

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Introduction
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This sectionprovides an introduction to VEX Round Up and the VEX Robotics
Competition.

T he V EX Robotics Competition
The world needs the students of today to become the scientists, engineers, and problem solving leaders of
tomorrow. The constant breakthroughs in chemistry, medicine, materials and physics reveal a new set of
challenges and create an even greater opportunity for problem solving throughtechnology. These problems
are not academic; the solutions could help save the world and those technology problem solvers will be the
ones to make it possible.
This underscores the dramatic challenge we face: there are not enough high school graduates choosing
technology related disciplines in college. This does not reflect a lack of capacity for new students on the
part of technical schoolsand universities, but a lack of interested and qualified applicants. In short, we will
not have the people we require in the next generation to solve the problems of tomorrow unless the
shortage is directly addressed today. Who will solve the world’s next great crisis?
Recognizing this dilemma, scores of organizations are creating programs designed to attract and engage
young students in thestudy of science and technology. Many have found that robotics is a very powerful
platform to attract and hold the attention of today’s multi-tasking, connected youths. Robotics has strong
appeal to this intensely competitive generation and represents the perfect storm of applied physics,
mathematics, computer programming, digital prototyping and design, integrated problem solving, teamwork
andthought leadership. Students with a previously undiscovered aptitude for STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Math) curriculum are flourishing in growing numbers due to the efforts of schools,
volunteer organizations, corporations, and governments internationally.
The VEX Robotics Competition, run by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation, is the next
generation of educationalrobotics competitions. While there are many quality robotics competitions
worldwide, the VEX Robotics user community has overwhelmingly demanded new challenges that are easy
and economical to host and implement. VEX Robotics, Inc. strives to serve the needs of all VEX Robotics
users in order to attract, nurture and grow new engineering candidates worldwide who will solve the
problems oftomorrow.
The VEX Robotics Design System is a leading classroom robotics platform designed to nurture creative
advancement in robotics and knowledge of STEM education. VEX provides teachers and students with an
affordable, robust, and state-of-the-art robotics system suitable for classroom use and the playing field.
VEX’s innovative use of pre-manufactured and easily formed structural metal,intuitive mechanical parts
combined with a powerful range of user-programmable microprocessors for control, leads to infinite design
possibilities.

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V EX R ound Up – A P rimer
VEX Round Up is played on a 12 ft x 12 ft foam-mat, surrounded by a sheet-metal and lexan
perimeter. There are nine goalposts, five ofwhich are attached to movable weighted bases, which teams
can score tubes on. Alliances earn extra points for owning a goalpost by scoring more tubes on the
goalpost than their opponents. At the center of the field is a 36” high structure known as the ladder that
teams can climb or hang off of for additional points.
For more details and specific game-play rules, please see Section 2 – The Game....