Berthoud Robotics

Berthoud Robotics (BRC) is a non-profit robotics club loosely affiliated with Berthoud area schools to provide competitive robotics/STEM opportunities to students from grades 3-12. Berthoud Robotics is a leading robotics club in Colorado, qualifying multiple teams for the state, national, and international championships.

BRC currently has teams competing in the Robotics Education Competition Foundation's Vex Competition programs.

Recent News

Team 1069E Critical Mass wins Create US Open Build Award 3/25/23 and will also  compete at the VexVRC World Championship.

Team 1069K Awkward Cats wins Design Award at the Colorado State Championship and will compete at the VexIQ World Championship

Team 1069E Critical Mass wins Think Award, 2nd Place in Skills and qualifies for Vex HS World Championship

Team 1069K Awkward Cats wins Excellence and Robot Skills Champion Awards at the Centennial Challenge 2/18/23.

Team 1069E Critical Mass wins Excellence Award at the Windsor Charter Academy Tournament 2/4/23.

Team 1069E Critical Mass wins the tournament and takes the Excellence Award at the Kent Qualifier 1/21/23

For 2022-23, the VexVRC game Spin-Up (for HS teams) and the VexIQ game Slapshot (for MS and ES teams) will provide challenges lifting, tossing, sliding and placing objects.  Click on the game links to find information about each game's rules/elements.  See the videos below for an introduction on the two games for this season.  The REC Foundation Online Challenges provide an additional method of channeling your competitive robotic and engineering interests.  For online robotics, please check out the http://vr.vex.com online programming environment which allows you to get used to the programming tools that BRC teams will use for all events to program simulated robots in virtual environments.

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