Whether you are new to educational robotics or a VEX veteran, there are coding activities that you can do with your students to participate in the Hour of Code™! Computer science is no longer viewed as an extracurricular activity, or a subject that is taught to a select few students. Instead, computer science is now recognized as an essential skill for all students.
At VEX, we feel that robotics is the perfect organizer for teaching CS in a hands-on, minds-on, engaging, and meaningful way. The VEX Continuum offers a K - 12 path to bring CS to life for all students, using both physical robots with VEX 123, VEX GO, VEX IQ, and VEX EXP, and virtual robots with VEXcode VR.
Switch, available in VEXcode VR, IQ, and EXP, allows students to bridge their learning from block-based to text-based coding. Students can incorporate Python commands into the blocks projects with Switch blocks as they try to score points in Ring Leader, Cube Collector, or Virtual Coding Skills Challenges. No matter where your students are on their coding journey, there's an Hour of Code Activity that can meet them where they are. Have fun coding!
Bring the excitement and motivation of robotics competitions to your classroom! Engage students in a classroom competition using the coding activities above. Project a leaderboard in your classroom to keep track of students’ scores as they complete coding challenges.