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Proud father moment. My daughter won the Think Award at the robotics state championship! She put in so much effort to learn and build their autonomous code and had a lot of setbacks, but all her hard work and many hours finally paid off on the big stage. Her team did amazing for their first year!

May I ask how she learned about robotics? I'd love to show this to my daughter!

We have a robotics club setup at the elementary and middle schools. My son was on the original 2 teams (we've since grown to 6 teams). We compete in VEX IQ (plastic pieces, block/scratch programming) but there is also VEX V5RC (metal/python/c). We also participate in National Beta club.

Thanks!! We don't have one here! Gonna share with interested parents..maybe we create one!! Are there specific kits your clubs started with that you would recommend??

Some stuff here www.vexrobotics.com/catalogsearc... but looks hard to start? My daughter is a 3rd grader.

We've bought A LOT of different robot kits over the years. A really good one to get started with programming and just having fun is the Makeblock mBot. www.amazon.com/dp/B00SK5RUQ...

Last year is when my daughter started learning coding concepts via mBot (when she was in 3rd grade). My son has been doing it for 4 years (5th - 8th grade) and he also loved making games on Scratch's website (scratch.mit.edu) or Microsoft's MakeCode (arcade.makecode.com).

Thank you so much for these links!! Mbot ordered! And our local Girl Scout troop is interested in the contests, so something might happen along those lines too!!!!