VEX IQ Pitching In

Pupils in Killeigh started working with Vex Robotics a number of years ago and it is now one of the most popular activities in school every year.  This years competition called Pitching in involved a group of 6th class pupils working together to design, build and engineer and reengineer a robot that would collect a number of foam balls and shoot them high into a basket. They also learned how to program the robot for autonomous operation using Vex Code IQ, a block based programming  language similar to scratch. 

On competiton day, the boys and girls will work in teams to try and score as many points as possible. We are extremely grateful to Munster Technical University (MTU) and especially  Offaly County Council for their support with this. We send a particular word of thanks to Ray Bell from Offaly County Council for his never ending support.