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Framingham Robotics Direction for 2026-2027 Season

Over the past several weeks, Framingham Robotics has been engaged in discussions with Event Partners, Coaches, and Teams in New England about the direction to take for the 2026-2027 competition season. We considered four options for Framingham:
- No competitive robotics season.
- Run our own non-affiliated competition season.
- Compete under Global Robotics and Science Foundation structure.
- Compete under Robotics Education Foundation (RECF) structure.

Framingham Robotics has chosen to continue our decade long relationship with the RECF and have our middle and high school teams compete under the RECF Robotics Achieve competition program. RECF's mission is well aligned with Framingham’s educational mission. RECF Robotics Achieve program offers new opportunities for student creativity by embracing 3D printing and sourcing components from alternative robotics platforms.

Framingham, as Event Partners, will host student-centered workshops and RECF Robotics Achieve tournaments for 2026-2027 competition season along with other Event Partners in the region.

Framingham is still in the process of evaluating how to support college/university programs in the region.

Forgot to post the final session the students in the club - oops.

Most are heading to the High School and continuing their robotics journey.

Season closing celebration today - lots of memories!

New game, new year-long homework assignment for robotics kids! They love it!

Override is a stacking game with a robot vertical expansion of 50" - they should be able to stack seven scoring objects.

Here are some of the memories made by WalshBots 9791C - Cheese & Quackers at VEX World Championships 2026 in St. Louis. They are determined to be back with this formative experience of being on a global stage. Framingham High School Robotics will have a great group of incoming 9th graders.

After a solid performance on Sunday, Monday was a string of losses due to various reasons (they did expect one or two, but three in a row hit hard). They ended up not being selected for elimination rounds, nor judged awards. The teams present were really good from all over the globe and they did well for their first Worlds experience.

Will have longer update in the coming days - with pictures!

The WalshBots 9791C - Cheese and Quackers journey has been amazing showing for a first time to Worlds in terms of growth in short period of time. The magnitude of Worlds seven divisions each about three times the typical regional tournaments they attended. Very overwhelming, but working incrementally focus on thing they can improve on match over match, the moved up in ranking from 55 to 15th at end of Saturday. Sunday is last day of qualification rounds - if they hold steady, they are likely to be in elimination rounds in their division.

Go WalshBots!

ps: for real time score updates, use the VEX via app - details for watching streams and app:
https://sites.google.com/framingham.k12.ma.us/walshbotsworlds2026/home

Walshbots matches on Sunday 4/26
Sunday 4/26 Qualifications starting 9 am (eastern)
Q 37 - 9:58
Q 58 - 11:20
Q 68 - 11:59
Q 86 - 2:07
Q 120 - 4:18
Q 143 - 5:46
Times eastern.

9791C Cheese and Quackers are in Spirit division

How to watch:

WalshBots Worlds 2026 Team is heading to VEX World Championships in St. Louis April 25-27 alongside over 550 MS teams from around the globe!

Arrived in St Louis and had Team dinner prep for World Championships!

Look for the little duckies in pictures - part of a Walsh Adopt-a-Duck challenge.

Our region successes are largely due to those individuals who contribute to student and team growth on a seemly larger than life scale!. Reflect on who has been an influential figure in the region and should be recognized and an Inspirational All-Star!

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2025-2026 Inspiration All Star Award! 🏆 Do you know a teacher, mentor, or volunteer who challenges students to grow through RECF programs? We want to hear your stories! Anyone can nominate an Inspiration All-Star.

Learn more on our website: qrco.de/bgW0cG