Caution Tape Robotics Club

Our Caution Tape VEX IQ BattleBots 2026 Recap Video is now live on YouTube!

Watch the highlights from this year’s BattleBots competition, featuring exciting matches, creative robot designs, strong teamwork, and unforgettable student moments.

This event was more than just robot battles. It was a celebration of engineering, strategy, problem-solving, sportsmanship, and student growth. We are incredibly proud of every competitor who stepped into the arena and gave their best.

A big thank you to our coaches, volunteers, families, and everyone who supported the event.

Watch the full recap here:
https://youtu.be/kz8f9X-0Wo4

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Annual VEX IQ BattleBots Competition.

This is what Caution Tape VIQRC students are doing in the off-season: building robots, testing ideas, fixing problems, and having fun with teammates.

Different game. Same engineering spirit.

DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE //

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🏆 In their very first season, Team 839 EV achieved an incredible result at the 2026 Waterloo EV Challenge hosted by the University of Waterloo Engineering — winning all four rookie awards available, plus an additional sponsor battery prize from Interstate Batteries!

This first-year team demonstrated outstanding engineering, fabrication, teamwork, and race performance throughout the competition against high school teams across Canada.

Awards include:

* Top Rookie Team Overall
* Rookie Team Award
* Toyota Fabrication & Manufacturing Award
* Heat Race Winner
* Interstate Batteries Sponsor Battery

We are incredibly proud of what these students accomplished in their debut season.
DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE //

As the season comes to an end, we want to say a heartfelt thank you to every student, parent, coach, volunteer, and supporter who has been part of this journey.

This season was filled with learning, challenges, teamwork, late practices, exciting tournaments, and unforgettable memories. We are proud of how much our students have grown — not only as builders, programmers, and drivers, but also as teammates, problem-solvers, and young leaders.

To the students continuing their robotics journey with us, we are excited for what comes next. To those beginning a new chapter, we wish you success, confidence, and joy in everything ahead.

No matter where the next season takes you, you will always be part of the Caution Tape family.

We hope to see you again soon — at the club, at a tournament, or even in a random encounter on the street. Don’t be a stranger. Come say hi.

Once Caution Tape, always Caution Tape.

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More than awards — a whole season of growth recognized.

At the 2026 VEX Robotics World Championship in St. Louis, all Ontario VIQRC awards went to Caution Tape Robotics.

But for us, this moment is about more than results.

We believe robotics education is not only about winning matches or bringing home trophies. It is about helping students grow in every direction: design thinking, engineering judgment, communication, teamwork, perseverance, problem-solving, and the ability to reflect, improve, and try again.

Every judged award our students received this season is a meaningful recognition of the hard work they put in week after week. Behind each award are countless design discussions, notebook revisions, robot rebuilds, strategy meetings, practice runs, failures, comebacks, and moments of growth.

We are proud to see our students’ full-season effort recognized on the world stage.

2026 VEX Robotics World Championship · St. Louis

🏆 839A — Create Award · Middle School
🏆 839B — Innovate Award · Middle School
🏆 839X · 839Y — Teamwork Challenge Division 2nd Place · Elementary School
🏆 839Y — Design Award · Elementary School

Five major awards. Four teams. Two age groups.

Among all Ontario VIQRC teams attending Worlds, no other organization received an award. This record was checked against public RobotEvents records in April 2026.

To our students: your effort, creativity, resilience, and teamwork were seen.

To our coaches, mentors, and families: thank you for supporting the process behind every achievement.

At Caution Tape Robotics, we believe well-rounded growth is the longer-lasting championship.

7 teams. One journey. One shot at the world stage.

This moment didn’t come easy.
Countless rebuilds. Endless testing.
Rewiring, reprogramming, and rethinking every detail.
From snapping pins in and out over and over
to that one explosive run on the field.

Caution Tape Robotics is heading to the VEX Robotics World Championship with 7 teams:

839A / 839B / 839D / 839X / 839Y / 8395A / 83988C

We’re not going to “experience” the world.
We’re going to compete with it.

You’ll see:
• engineering pushed to its limits
• strategy under pressure
• students performing at their peak

🔥 7 TEAMS. ONE MISSION.
🔥 DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE //

📍 St. Louis, Missouri, USA
📅 April 28–30, 2026

Markham • Toronto • Fredericton • Canada

Team 839B VEX IQ Mix & Match Worlds Reveal

Caution Tape Robotics Team 839B VEX IQ Mix & Match Worlds Reveal

VEX IQ Mix & Match 839A Worlds Robot Reveal

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A true parent's story about their journey in VEX IQ season. Grateful to be a coach for such great team.

Five Sentences That Sent My Son’s Team to the World Championship Team 839D Dill Pickle | VEX IQ Provincial | March 7–8, 2026

https://www.ct839.com/en/blog/consistency-over-everything-practice-before-championships

Consistency Over Everything: The Right Way to Practice Before Championships | Caution Tape Robotics Every team chases their highest score before a big competition. But the real dark horses aren't the flashy performers—they're the teams that never drop below 80%.