WeRobot News
2025-2026 WeRobot News
2025 - 2026 Season
October 25 2025, Lightning Bots Win Excellence Award at Dublin Tournament
We are thrilled to celebrate the success of Lightning Bots, a team from Sandpiper School, who won the Excellence Award in the elementary school teams at the Dublin Robotics Club VEX IQ Tournament 1 on Oct 25th, 2025. The Lightning Bots consist of three 5th-grade students who showcased exceptional skills in robot design, programming, and teamwork throughout the competition.
Their coach, Vincent, a dedicated WeRobot mentor, has been guiding and supporting the team on their robotics journey. This award recognizes not only the students’ hard work and creativity but also the mentorship and community spirit that WeRobot strives to foster. Congratulations to the Lightning Bots and coach Vincent on this outstanding achievement!​​​​​
October 06 2025, Team SE and F2 have the first working Robot
October 01 2025, Congressional Award For Community Service
To help WeRobot mentors record their volunteer hours and receive recognition for their service, WeRobot has decided to support mentors in applying for the Congressional Award beginning in the 2025–2026 season.
The Congressional Award is the United States Congress’s official award for young Americans. It is a well-established and prestigious program that aligns perfectly with the goals of WeRobot volunteers.
Today, WeRobot held an information session for all mentors to explain how to apply for the award and accurately record their volunteer work. WeRobot mentor Ryan and his mom conducted pioneering research on the program and led the session, guiding all mentors through the registration process and helping them get started.
September 30 2025, Progress
As the WeRobot teams have been maintaining the momentum of their first meeting, they've made some serious progress! Many teams are done building the hero-bot, Huey, and WeRobot mentor Parker is shown here discussing next steps with the Botzilla Robotics team. After the hero-bot is done, the WeRobot teams plan to program basic maneuverability, practice driving the robot and plan improvements to the base design. Though there have been slight hiccups to the meeting schedules, like the unfortunate closing of room 6 at Sandpiper, the WeRobot teams have adapted quickly and held impromptu meetings in team parents' garages. Let's continue to cheer for the WeRobot teams as they get ready for the Sandpiper tournament!
Sep 17, 2025, Started First Meetings
All of the WeRobot teams have officially completed their first meeting! With a full gen-2 kit afforded to each team, all the WeRobot mentors were able to immediately start the building process. Let's hope they can continue to make such quick progress!​​​​​​​​​​​
Sep 10, 2025, Finally Meet the Parents
After many back-forth rounds coordinating with parents and mentors, we finally matched mentors to the teams. Today, WeRobot mentors met the parents of the students who will begin their first robotics journey. The parents were excited to meet their mentors. After the presentation, they introduced themselves to each other and began planning the first meeting between the mentors and students. It’s a promising start. Let’s go, WeRobot teams!
Sep 09, 2025, Last in-person Training Session for WeRobot Mentors
Kevin from WeRobot reviewed the WeRobot curriculum for mentors, highlighting how it can be presented to students. He emphasized the importance of design notes, encouraging mentors to guide students in documenting every step of the engineering process, including brainstorming, designing, building, testing, modifying, and practicing. We also distributed this year’s WeRobot T-shirts in vibrant red!
With training complete, our WeRobot mentors are now well-prepared and excited to meet the parents and students soon.
Sep 02, 2025, Kevin Presented WeRobot To Sandpiper Parents
Sandpiper parents have started signing up their kids for Sandpiper Robotics teams. To give them a clear understanding of what WeRobot is and how it can support their teams, Kevin gave a presentation introducing WeRobot at the Sandpiper Robotics Kick-off Meeting. The parents showed great interest in WeRobot, and many of them signed up for WeRobot Mentors to guide their teams.
August 27 2025, WeRobot Mentoring Team Are Preparing for 2025-2026!
As some of our senior mentors have moved on to college, we began recruiting new members in May. So far, we’ve brought on 10 mentors, including two enthusiastic 8th graders who have won multiple awards in previous VEX IQ championships. With this growth, WeRobot is now able to coach 5 teams this year. Mentors have been paired up to form mentor teams, ensuring strong support for each group.
Our season has kicked off with three training sessions, covering team building, tips on being an effective mentor, and the technical details of this year’s game, Mix and Match. We also discussed modifications to the HeroBot design to adapt it for this year’s challenges.
WeRobot is excited to serve the community in the new season!
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