VEX Robotics At Jenison Schools

2023 Vex IQ
For Students In Grades 4-6

VEX IQ Details

Learn to design, build, program, and test a robot to compete with other robots!
Get involved with various robot related skill challenges and competitions
Practices are twice a week, except for league weeks, where practice will be once a week.
Volunteer Parent Coached, we can't do this without your help!
Compete in 4 league night competitions beginning in October and ending in November.
Compete in a full day tournament here at Jenison Junior High - December 9th, 2023
Teams will be made based on grade, number of participants, and number of coaches!
Parental involvement is encouraged throughout the season. We need parents to volunteer at either 2 league nights or for half the day at our Jenison Tournament.

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Congratulations to our 2026 VEX World Championship qualified teams

These three teams competed at the 2026 VEX Robotics World Championship in St. Louis, Missouri in April 2026.

Congratulations to:

Jr. High Team 457A "Larger Than Average Seals"
Jr. High Team 457D "Asteroid Destroyer"
High School Team 2140A "Quiet Riot"

Congratulations To The Elementary Teams League Award Winners!

Our 2025-26 elementary IQ season wound to a close. Six of our teams won awards and competed in the Tournament of Champions in Grandville!

Congratulations to:

1195A - Lava Ferrets - Robot Skills Champion - Hudsonville League
1443A – Jenison Robo-Clefs – Teamwork 2nd Place – Jenison League
1443D – The Tiny Tanks – Innovate Award – Jenison Tournament and Robot Skills 2nd Place – Grandville League
1990A – The High Velocity Flaming Velociraptors – Teamwork 3rd Place – Grandville League
2370B – The Flaming Ducks – Teamwork Champion and Robot Skills Champion – Jenison League
2370C – IQ Wildcats – Teamwork 2nd Place - Jenison League

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Registration for 2026/2027 School Year

VEX IQ Robotics Grades 4-6 for the school year 2026-2027
Open to all Jenison 4th- 6th Graders

PARENT MEETING: September 21nd, 7 PM, Jenison Junior High Cafeteria, 8295 20th Ave.
COACHES TRAINING: Mid to Late October at the Jenison Robotics Center (1889 Baldwin St) date TBA
KICKOFF WEEK: Parent meeting either November 3 or 4, meet your team at 6 PM
PRACTICE LOCATION: Jenison Robotics Center (1889 Baldwin St)
COST: $125 with parental volunteering OR $250 if you are unable to volunteer

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What Is VEX?

VEX Competitions bring STEM skills to life by tasking teams of students with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. The VEX Robotics Competition is the world's largest and fastest-growing robotics competition, with over 16,000 teams competing in more than 40 countries.

The VEX Robotics World Championship now holds the Guinness World Record for the largest robotics competition on Earth. Over 20,000 participants from 1,100 teams representing 30 nations travelled to Louisville, KY in 2016 for the chance to be crowned world champion!

VEX Robotics partners with the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing student interest and involvement in STEM programs. The REC Foundation manages the VEX IQ Challenge (for elementary school students), the VEX Robotics Competition (for middle school and high school students), and VEX U (for University students). This continuum of programs enables students of all ages to utilize VEX to compete against their peers worldwide.

Become A Jenison Robotics Sponsor!

Jenison has hundreds of students particioate every year! Help sponsor the program today!

Sponsorship Info

Thank you to this years sponsors!

What is a VEX Competition?

A VEX competition is an event where the robots play against each other in a match of skill. The robots do not damage each other.

The Jenison 4th-6th grade student teams are entered into VEX IQ competitions that see students work TOGETHER with other teams robots, to maximize their score. Typically, the teams robots will get a chance to run several Partnership Challenge, and Skill Challenge matches, with the robot that gets the highest accumulated score at the end of a competition receiving recognition. Teams do not "lose" matches, but recognition is given out to teams that display certain skill sets including, design, creativity, and teamwork.

The Jenison 7th-12th grade student teams are entered into VEX VRC competitions. Standard Matches are played between red and blue robot alliances that compete against each other to score points. Alliances are randomly formed of two robots each. Typically, the teams robots will get a chance to run several Standard Matches, and Skill Challenge matches, with the robot that gets the highest accumulated score at the end of a competition receiving recognition. Teams can also receive recognition for displaying certain skill sets including, design, creativity, and teamwork.

There are also "online" and other STEM related projects that the teams of all grades can participate in as well.

The 2026-2027 VEX Challenges

Grades 4-6

"Level Up"
2026-2027
VEX IQ Challenge

For Grades 4-6, the VEX IQ program forms teams to compete in VEX IQ Challenges. We also offer a one-week "summer camp" each year.

The VEX IQ season starts at the end of October, with team practices to build and test the robots. The 4-week leagues begin in January, with a league championship tournament in February. There is also a separate, all-day tournament scheduled for February, which all teams participate in.

Registration for the 2026/2027 season will be in September.

VEX IQ
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Grades 7-12

"Override"
2026-2027
VEX V5 Challenge

For Grades 7-12, our VEX VRC program forms teams to compete in the VEX V5 Robotics Competition.

The teams start working on their robots in early August, with the first competitive "league nights" starting in early October.

The teams compete in their league championships and at least three all-day tournaments.

Applications are available each Spring for the following school. year.

VEX VRC
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