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VEX Robotics: STEM Program and Robotics Competition Expansion into Europe

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Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2011 (EUROBOT 2011)

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VEX Robotics is a competition and an educational system for STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs. It was started in 2005 in the USA and was introduced in Europe in 2007 in England. Currently three European countries are using VEX Robotics system: United Kingdom, Sweden and Spain and it is expanding to France and Germany. In this paper we analyze VEX Educational robotics and we cover the main aspects of the European Expansion.

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  1. Spanish Robotics Competition Organization (A.R.C.E.), Calle Magnolia 12, 28260, Galapagar, Spain

    Irene Alvarez Caro

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Malostranské náměstí 25, 118 00, Praha 1, Czech Republic

    David Obdržálek

  2. Electrical Engineering, SRH University of Applied Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany

    Achim Gottscheber

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Alvarez Caro, I. (2011). VEX Robotics: STEM Program and Robotics Competition Expansion into Europe. In: Obdržálek, D., Gottscheber, A. (eds) Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2011. EUROBOT 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21975-7_2

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