Grades 5–6 · VIQRC
Elementary Robotics
Students use snap-together VEX IQ components to learn foundational design, programming, testing, and driving skills while working as a team.
Build Robots. Build Confidence. Build Future Leaders.
Hudsonville Robotics is a student-centered competitive robotics program for Hudsonville Public Schools students in grades 5–12. Students design, build, and program robots while learning to solve problems and work as a team.
The robot is the project. The student is the purpose. Competition drives the innovation.
Three Programs
A place to grow at every level.
Programs are organized by grade level, with greater technical complexity and student responsibility as students advance.
Grades 7–8 · V5RC
Middle School Robotics
Students build more advanced robots using metal VEX V5 components and take greater responsibility for design, programming, testing, and competition strategy.
Grades 9–12 · V5RC
High School Robotics
Students manage increasingly complex robots and strategies with greater independence, documentation, project management, and team leadership.
How the Program Works
Design. Build. Code. Compete.
Each season gives teams a new challenge. Students study the rules, develop a strategy, design and build a robot, program its controls and autonomous routines, and test their ideas.
Competition puts that work to the test. Students learn from the results, return to practice, and decide together what to improve next.
Built for Teamwork
Competition is built around collaboration.
Students work with their own teammates and with teams from other schools. The alliance model makes communication, cooperation, and shared success part of the competition.
Alliance Competition
In VIQRC, two teams form an alliance and collaborate against the clock in a 60-second match. In V5RC, a two-team alliance competes against another alliance in a two-minute, two-versus-two match.
Student-Led. Adult-Supported.
Adults provide equipment, training, a safe workspace, organization, and technical guidance. Students remain responsible for their strategy, design, building, programming, testing, and operation of the robot.