UK robot championships

Teams of students from across the country gathered in Telford, Shropshire, in England, at the end of April to take part in the UK national finals of the VEX Robotics Championships. It was the first time the competition, which inspires young people to consider careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths), has been held face-to-face since the beginning of the pandemic. Students from UK primary and secondary schools formed 120 teams to take part in competitions. The teams built and drove robots to carry out specific tasks and wrote computer code to control their behaviour and get the best results. The VEX Robotics Competition (VRC) involved a two-minute game in which teams used robots to pick up rings and hook them over movable targets. They scored extra points for…

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