Explore Competition
Robotics competition brings 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. STEM concepts are put to the test as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, project-based organization, and more. Click on the button below to learn about the real-world skill that students experience.
Driver Skill is you and your teammate controlling your robot while trying to score the most points in 60 seconds.
Programming Skill is having your robot run autonomously or by itself to score as many points in 60 seconds.
An alliance match is your team with another team working together to score as many points as you can in 60 seconds.
Driver Skills at the U.S. Open Robotics Championship in Iowa