On Saturday, April 9, 2016 team 80J Cannonball of the Vexmen took home the “Think Award” at the 2016 CREATE U.S. Open held at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Team 81Z Professor X competed in a bonus Mega Team Challenge and took home second place.

Team 80J Cannonball performed extremely well overall placing 7th out of 89 teams in the qualifying rounds and 7th in autonomous robot skills against middle schools from more than twenty states. The “Think Award” is presented to a team that has successfully utilized autonomous programming modes during competition. Quality, consistency and success of autonomous programs as well as the ability of the students to explain the programming process help…

The Vexmen regular season is complete and we performed extremely well at Pennsylvania State Championships! We are very proud of all of our teams and how they compete and learn.

We won an astounding eighteen trophies at PA States and will send three teams to the Vex Robotics World Championships in Lousiville, Kentucky this April. This will be the sixth consecutive year the Vexmen have sent teams to the Vex world championships.

Representing the Vexmen at Vex World Championships will be team 80N, Nightcrawler, who earned their ticket by winning the middle school Excellence Award, them 80Y, Cypher, who won the middle school Design Award, and team 81M, Mystique, who won the high school Design Award.

But that was…