The initial few students who joined came together during the first meeting and discussed the competition. With little competition experience and a passion for engineering, these students dove in straight away and began fundraising and constructing robots. After 2 months of struggle and unguided design, the team managed to scrape together a robot right before their first competition.

The competition was nothing like they've ever seen before, teams scrambling together to fix parts, robots zooming around the place, teams meeting together for game strategies, etc. Although anxious, the team entered the competition with open minds and passion. This first glimpse into the VEX competition world helped the first team establish its roots within Vista Peak and properly cement the robotics club within the STEM pathway.

The 2021-2022 robotics team is now meeting in person every Tuesday to design and build a robot for this year's competition. We are very excited for this year's competition season with our new and returning members.

After covid restrictions, our team had to go online for the 2020-2021 season. Everyone had a role and spent months making it work. We were able to fundraise enough money by ourselves with the help of our online and in person team and with what we had, we built a robot that carried us to the state competition. Despite the challenges and our shortcomings , we were able to pull through and do our best. Our team is incredibly proud at how far we've come, from starting with only a few members and class kits, to achieving more than we ever thought was possible in the span of three years.

This year our team had the opportunity to come together in person to work on our robot. By physically being able to team up and share our ideas, we've built a robot.