On January 31st, TechBlazers teams faced two major robotics competitions filled with challenges and opportunities. Through exceptional engineering design, innovative thinking, and teamwork, the students earned multiple honors, once again demonstrating TechBlazers’ strength in youth robotics education and competition.
SCS VIQRC MS Mix and Match January Tournament
- Competition Type: VEX IQ
- Date: January 31, 2026
- Venue: St. Clements School, Toronto, Ontario M4R 1G8, Canada
- Competition Features:The Mix and Match format is a distinctive feature of official VEX IQ events. Participating teams must complete challenges in different combinations. The competition not only tests the robot’s operational capabilities in tasks, but also emphasizes strategy development, rapid adaptation, and teamwork abilities. This format helps students develop engineering thinking and problem-solving skills in dynamic situations.
- TechBlazers Team Performance:
- 10837T: With efficient and stable robot operations and precise strategy, won the Excellence Award and Skills Champions
- 10837B & 10837D: The two teams joined forces in the teamwork competition with seamless coordination, capturing the Teamwork Champions title
- 10837R: Through innovative design and structural optimization, received the Design Award
- 10837T: With efficient and stable robot operations and precise strategy, won the Excellence Award and Skills Champions
In this competition, each team member demonstrated complete capabilities from design and programming to debugging, reflecting TechBlazers’ educational philosophy of cultivating students’ creativity and systematic thinking.
Toronto V5RC Push Back
- Competition Type: VEX V5
- Date and Venue: January 31st
- Venue: Woburn C. I., 2222 Ellesmere Road, Toronto, Ontario M1G 3M3, Canada
- Competition Features:The VEX V5 series competitions are robotics events with higher technical difficulty, emphasizing teams’ operation, strategy, and coordination abilities under complex tasks. In the Push Back competition, participating teams need to complete multiple high-difficulty tasks within a limited time. The team’s robot design, operational precision, and on-field adaptability are all key to victory.
- TechBlazers Team Performance:
- 16610V: With solid robot performance and efficient team strategy, won the Tournament Champion
- 16610V: With solid robot performance and efficient team strategy, won the Tournament Champion
This competition not only showcased the team members’ excellent robot operation skills, but also reflected their strategic thinking and rapid decision-making abilities on the field.
The excellent results in these two competitions are not only the result of team effort and innovation, but also the practice of TechBlazers’ educational philosophy: through robotics competitions, students not only learn to build and program, but also grow through design, practice, collaboration, and expression.
TechBlazers will continue to lead more children in exploring the STEM world, helping them develop engineering thinking, innovative abilities, and team spirit through hands-on practice.
Kudos to all the award-winning TechBlazers members, and we welcome more children to join us in realizing unlimited possibilities with robotics!