A record 42 teams competed in this year’s Battle of the Bots
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Student engineers from throughout the region thrilled fans at the largest VEX Robotics middle school tournament in Illinois.
Oak Leaves reporter Steve Schering covered the exciting Battle of the Bots competition.
On Saturday, February 7, over 300 spectators rocked the stands as 170 young engineers from throughout the region went head-to-head at the OPEF 2015 Battle of the Bots. This year’s tournament included teams from Chicago, Berwyn, Elmwood Park, Elmhurst and of course Oak Park. Teams competed against each other on a 12-by-12-foot playing field by […]
Middle school VEX Robotics teams from throughout the Chicago area will compete for the opportunity to attend the Illinois VEX Robotics State Championship.
The gym is packed. The buzzer sounds. The players jockey for position, moving balls and scoring. The crowd cheers. Is it basketball? Volleyball? Hockey? No, it’s the Oak Park Education Foundation’s Battle of the Bots – and the players are robots, controlled by their middle school creators! On Saturday February 1, in the Julian Middle […]
More than 300 cheering spectators packed the Julian Middle School gym on Saturday, January 26 for the Oak Park Education Foundation’s 8th annual VEX Robotics competition, Battle of the Bots. This year’s competition featured not only OPEF teams from Brooks and Julian, but also 6 guest teams from Oak Park, Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. […]
The Oak Park Education Foundation’s annual VEX Robotics competition, the Battle of the Bots, will take place at 9:00 am on Saturday, January 26 in the Julian gym, 416 S. Ridgeland in Oak Park. This action-packed competition will feature OPEF teams from Brooks and Julian as well as guest teams from Oak Park, Chicago and […]
The OPEF VEX Robotics students have been working since October to design, build and program robots for the 2013 Battle of the Bots, held January 26 at Julian Middle School. Watch this video to get a peek at the hard work that goes into designing and building these amazing VEX robots.
The Oak Park Education Foundation’s 7th annual VEX Robotics competition between Julian & Brooks students on January 28 was an amazing display of middle school engineering talent. More than 80 sixth-eight graders worked with teachers, volunteer engineers, and high school mentors after school for months to design, build and program inventive robots that showed their […]