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Vex Robotics National Qualifying Tournament

Dock’s Robotics Club will host its fourth annual robotics competition on Saturday, January 21 in the Clemens Center Gym. The Vex Gateway tournament will feature competing robotics teams from area schools as well as teams from as far away as Virginia. 

VEX Gateway is played on a 12’x12’ square field configured as seen above. Two alliances – one “red” and one “blue” – composed of two teams each, compete in matches consisting of a twenty-second autonomous period followed by two minutes of driver-controlled play.The object of the game is to attain a higher score than your opponent Alliance by Scoring Barrels and Balls in Goals, earning Bonus Points and Doubling or Negating Goals.

See more information about Vex Gateway at Vex Robotics.

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