On January 17, 2026, at the Brampton VIQRC Mix & Match Competition Qualifier, an official VEX IQ Robotics Competition (VIQRC) event in Ontario, TechBlazers Team 10837D delivered an outstanding performance among many competing teams and earned two prestigious awards:
– Teamwork 2nd Place Award
– Judges Award
These achievements represent strong recognition of the team’s technical ability, engineering stability, teamwork, and overall professionalism.
Competition Details
Event Name: Brampton VIQRC Mix & Match Competition Qualifier
Date: January 17, 2026
Event Level: Official VEX IQ Robotics Competition (VIQRC) – Ontario Qualifier
Location: Turner Fenton Secondary School
7935 Kennedy Road South, Brampton, Ontario L6W 0A2, Canada
This competition is an officially certified Ontario event in the 2025–2026 VEX IQ season.
The Mix & Match format requires teams to be randomly paired with different alliance partners each round, placing high demands on:
– Communication skills
– On-the-spot strategic adjustment
– Robot consistency and reliability
Award Highlights
🏅 Teamwork 2nd Place Award
The Teamwork Award is determined by the **overall ranking in teamwork matches. It evaluates not only robot performance, but also a team’s ability to:
– Develop effective pre-match strategies
– Coordinate seamlessly during matches
– Quickly adapt and collaborate with unfamiliar partner teams
Earning a Teamwork Award in a Mix & Match competition demonstrates **true engineering stability and deep understanding of the game.
🏆 Judges Award
The Judges Award is selected through comprehensive evaluation by event judges, focusing on:
– Engineering design process and reasoning
– Robot structure and innovation
– Team organization and communication
– Learning attitude and professional presentation
This is not a score-based award, but one that reflects judges’ recognition of a team’s overall excellence, growth mindset, and future potential.
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Beyond the Awards
From mechanical construction and engineering documentation to match strategy and on-field communication, the students of Team 10837D continue to refine their skills through consistent training and real competition experience.
At TechBlazers, we firmly believe that robotics competitions are not about “winning once,” but about long-term capability building.
The true value of VEX IQ goes far beyond trophies. On the competition field, students learn:
– How to turn ideas into real, working systems
– How to collaborate effectively under pressure
– How to analyze failures, adjust strategies, and try again
These are skills that will benefit them far beyond robotics — in academics, future careers, and life.
If you would like your child to systematically learn robotics, programming, and engineering thinking, we welcome you to explore TechBlazers and join us in discovering the true power of STEM education.