VEX V5 Robotics Competitions
Our team has competed in VEX Robotics since 2022. The VEX V5 Robotics Competition, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, is the largest and fastest-growing middle school and high school robotics program globally, with more than 20,000 teams from 50 countries playing in over 1,700 competitions worldwide.
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Our Achievements
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2025 High School Vex Robotics World Championship: Overall Finalist, Division Champion
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2025 California Region 2 VRC High School Regional Championship: Tournament Finalist
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2024 Space City Signature event: Tournament Champions
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2024 Middle School Vex Robotics World Championship: Overall Finalist, Division Champion
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2023 One World Showcase Event @ UC Berkeley: Tournament Champions
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2023 California Region 2 VRC Middle School Regional Championship: Tournament Champions and Design Award
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Regional competitions: 6x Tournament Champions, 4x Skills Champions, 7x Judge Awards
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4x World Championships qualifier from 2022 to 2025
2025-2026: Push Back
From left to right: Claire L, Adeline, Angie Z, Grant H, Zixuan Y, Alex D, Derek D
Bay Area VEX V5 Push Back Tournament #2
In preparation for this event, we designed and tested an entirely new autonomous program, refining our strategy for both precision and consistency. Our efforts paid off — we earned the Skills Champion Award, achieving the highest combined autonomous and driver skills score at the event. As of now, we are ranked #1 in the world among 1,539 VEX High School teams for the 2025 season.
Our sister team 1698A won the Middle School Excellence Award.
Saratoga VEX V5 Robotics Tournament #1
We kicked off our VEX season at the Saratoga V5 Robotics Tournament #1 with an upgraded version of our MOA robot. After weeks of redesign and testing, it was exciting to see the improvements pay off on the field.
We’re proud to have earned the Robot Skills Champion title and the Innovate Award! These wins reflect our team's focus on both performance and creative engineering.
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From left to right: Derek D, Alex D, Zixuan Y, Grant H, Lexie L. Richard W also attended and contributed throughout the event.
The University of North Dakota Signature at the Mall of America (July 31 - Aug 2, 2025
We competed in the University of North Dakota Signature Event at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota—our first competition of the season. We were excited to debut the first version of our robot, finishing 5th in the preliminary rounds and earning 2nd place in the Skills Challenge.
From left to right: Zixuan Y, Alex D, Richard W, Grant H
2024-2025 High Stakes
VEX AI World Championship 2025
In June 2025, we competed in the VEX AI World Championship in Houston, TX. It was an incredible opportunity to explore the cutting-edge use of artificial intelligence in robotics. We gained valuable insights and look forward to applying what we’ve learned in the upcoming season.
From left to right: Lexie L, Alex L, Richard W, Grant H, Adline
2025 VEX World Championship
We competed in the 2025 VEX VRC World Championship in Dallas, TX, in May. We won our division of 83 teams to advance to the overall finals, where we reached the Grand Finals. Overall, we finished 2nd out of 823 teams from across the world.
From Left to Right: Zixuan Y, Alex D, Lexie L
2025 Robolabs VEX AI Robotics Competition
In April 2025, at Robolabs VEX AI Robotics Competition, we won the tournament championship.
From Left to right: Zixuan Y, Alex D, Richard W
2025 CREATE U.S. Open Robotics Tournament
In April 2025, at the CREATE U.S. Open Robotics Tournament, we ranked fourth and advanced to the semi-finals in our division. This event prepared us well for the World Championship
From left to right: Zixuan Y, Alex D
2025 California Region 2 VEX V5 High School State Championship
In March 2025, at California Region 2 State championships we made it all the way to the finals, meaning that we achieved 2nd place out of 80 teams from the rest of the Bay Area.
Space City Signature Event
In November 2024, at the Space City Signature Event in Houston, TX, our team won the championship out of 63 teams, securing a spot at the 2025 VEX World Championships in Dallas.
From left to right: Lexie L, Alex D, Zixuan Y, Richard W, Alex L
2024 Minnesota Signature Event
We competed in the Minnesota Signature Event in August 2024. This was our first tournament for the 2024-2025 season and the first time we competed as team 1698V. We ranked 9th in the preliminary rounds and advanced to the quarterfinals. Even though we didn't win, we learned a great deal from this event.
From left to right: Lexie L, Alex L, Alex D, Zixuan Y, Grant H