Steam-Ed Robotics

06/12/2025

Go Steam-Ed Robotics teams!

14/02/2025

Ed has joined the team today for the National VEX Robotics Champs in Auckland!
All 3 robots have passed inspection and are ready for games to begin.

01/12/2024

Today we had our last practice VEX IQ robotics scrimmage before the Steam-Ed Charitable Trust teams head off to Nationals in Palmerston North next weekend.

Sadly the teams from Otumoetai Intermediate won't be able to travel down there this year, but we hope they can join us in 2025.

It was great to see the improvement in most of the robot designs throughout the last 5 months, with some still making last minute tweaks today.

Best of luck to all the STEAM-ED teams at Nationals! We have two teams competing in the Middle School division and the teams in the Elementary School division.

15/02/2024

Tauranga teens shine at robotics nationals

14/02/2024

It is the end of an era for our STEAM-ED Robotics team as these two wonderful young men, Sam Orsler and Ryan Kayser, move on to new ventures. Over the past 4 years they have been incredibly successful, when alongside Luca Ririnui, they won the most prestigious 'Excellence Award' as well as the Robot Skills Award each year until 2023. They have represented NZ at the World Championships 3 times, including once in an online remote event when travel wasn't possible due to covid restrictions.

They have been terrific mentors for youngsters attending our robotics programmes, always willing to share their knowledge with a smile and bucket loads of enthusiasm!

Sam is off to University of Canterbury to start his tertiary education in Engineering, while Ryan pursues his flying ambitions and concentrates on Yr13 and work commitments. We are confident they will be back to see us and hope they will continue to be keen to mentor in the little bit of spare time they will have.

On behalf of the whole of STEAM-ED, Thank you Sam and Ryan for doing so much to make our robotics programme a success! We will miss you a lot.

11/08/2023

Today we hosted the first of our regional VEX IQ Full Volume scrimmages. It was great to have the Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Kawakawa Mai Tawhiti all the way from Hicks Bay who brought 2 robots and borrowed 1.
Top score of the day was 69.

31/07/2023

Congratulations Luca!

Leading young scientists off to London

30/04/2023

Absolutely awesome to hear that Jacob and co won the VEX U (university) Excellence Award at Worlds! Jacob did high school robotics with STEAM-ED 🙂 and we know how much hard work has gone into this over the years.

Congratulations to VEX U Team JANK for taking home the EXCELLENCE Trophy tonight at Uni Finals

28/04/2023

Here is the match schedule for our STEAM-ED Middle School team starting in the early hours of tomorrow (Saturday)morning with game 153 onwards on Sunday morning.
If you google VEX TV and find the Middle School Math division, you can watch all the games remotely. The times in the schedule are NZ times.
Give it heaps Dom, Noah and Nate!

09/04/2023

Just 10 days until Noah, Nate and Dom take off to the VEX Robotics World Championships in Dallas to compete in the Middle School division. As well as final prep, Dom and Noah are also volunteering their time to help in our robotics holiday programme! What superstars!
Thanks Kiwibots for the new T-shirts to show they are representing NZ as well as STEAM-ED.

22/03/2023

Thanks so much to Facteon for their continued support in helping our Middle School team compete in the VEX Robotics World Championships at the end of April! Our High School team won he overall Excellence Award at Nationals but sadly have decided not to go to Dallas this year, but we look forward to seeing what our younger team can do on the 27th-19th April!
As well as supporting the team for the World Championships, the team from Facteon have also offered mentorship and ongoing support to the guys as they pursue future careers. Awesome!

Facteon is proud to once again sponsor the New Zealand STEAM-ED Robotics team to compete in the 2023 VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas, Texas from April 25 – May.