Middle and high school students from Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan will compete at the Northeast Wisconsin VEX Robotics Challenge from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, at Oconto Falls High School, 210 N. Farm Road.
Thirty-five teams will battle each other with robots created from the VEX Robotics Design System. Participants will square off in the game Nothing-But-Net, developed by VEX Robotics Inc. and the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation.
Team Green 4-H Club from Oconto County will host the event, which is open to the public. Admission is free. Team Green will have two teams in the competition. This is the seventh season for the team.
The Northeast Wisconsin VEX Robotics Challenge is one in a series of tournaments supported by the REC Foundation and various national, regional and local sponsors. Local sponsors are Oconto Electric Cooperative and Bay Tek Games.
The competition season culminates each spring with the top teams competing at the VEX Robotics World Championship in Louisville, Kentucky.
Categories
