Our VEX Team

How We Got Started

In the spring of 2006, our VEX team was co-founded by members of FRC Team 694 Nathan Keyes and Nathan Bixler with the idea of getting more of our school involved with FIRST. Before long, many VEX recruits acquired the low-cost kits and put their creative minds to work.

Region 4 Robotics Competition

Since the team was started after the end of the 2006 FIRST VEX Competition season, our first competition and highlight of the year was a VEX competition hosted by Stephen Schapinsky of Region 4 Robotics in Queens. Read more about this event on our Region 4 Competition page.

FVC

Although the FIRST VEX Competition challenge is released in September, our team got off to a late start in 2007, registering and assembling the team only three weeks before our regional. Our small team worked hard to produce a robot that would compete in our first FVC competition. Overall, the event was quite successful as we won two out of four of our matches. Read more about that year's competition on the 2007 Season page.

There were many more interested students this year, warranting the entry of two teams. Many of last year's members have since moved on to become full fledged members of Team 694. However, the two teams are now led by veterans Jordan Perr and Susan Zheng. Taking a lesson from last year, the teams started designing early on in September and are now meeting weekly to construct this year's two robots.

Moving Forward to VISC

During the offseason, our efforts are directed toward involving even more Stuyvesant H.S. students in this fun and rewarding program. As a result, VISC (Vex Inter-Stuy Competition) was created. This program is meant as a general introduction to FIRST for students who may not yet want the commitments involved with a full-fledged FIRST team. Instead, VISC is significantly less time consuming and has since recruited several more members to the Vex club. The competition operates by pitting teams of members against each other in a unique challenge.