The RIT VEX U Robotics team placed third overall in its late March competition at the Purdue SIGBots Remote Skills Qualifier. It was the fourth event of the season and the team moved up to 12th among the 300 teams in the league that includes robots from the U.S., Canada, China, Puerto Rico, Morocco, Spain, and Mexico.
RIT has been part of the VEX U Robotics Education and Competition Foundation program since 2017. The collegiate series provides students with opportunities to put classroom instruction in robotics, science and engineering into practice, and to encourage students to pursue careers in STEM fields. RIT VEX U is based in the College of Engineering Technology.
Teams build model electric vehicles programmed to drive autonomously over several fields and within different categories of challenges. This year’s game, VEX Robotics Competition Change Up is played on…
