VEX V5 276 Robot Kit

The VEX V5 Competition Starter Kit allows you to take educational robotic to the next level, taking STEM classroom concepts and combining them with teamwork, leadership and communication skills as students come together to create a programmable robot to compete in game-based engineering challenges. VEX's Robotic Competition, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, encourages students to elevate their learning beyond the classroom, bringing them together in teams to combine their skills in coding and mechanics to design and create a fast, accurate robot. Suitable for children ages 8 and over, this robotics kit includes everything needed to make a competitive robot, including a complete V5 control system, aluminium structural elements and high-strength parts so that a team of students can succeed in building a bigger, stronger, and faster robot.

The kit is also compatible with VEX's VEXcode software, a scalable program that can be used across all school years to introduce and teach coding and programming skills to students. VEXcode introduces programming through a drag-and-drop block-based interface that allows new programmers to focus on function and creativity, assembling functions to build their desired program with ease. Once students are comfortable with block-based coding and are ready to graduate to text-based coding, VEXcode's built-in tools allow them to convert their blocks into text, giving a real-time insight into the C++ or Python code behind each function.

With over 11,000 competitors from over 45 countries, VEX's Robotics Competition is sure to encourage students to continue to engage in STEM lessons and activities.