TETRIX^® MAX Competition in a Box

“Originally intended to help our after-school robotics club prepare for the FIRST^® Tech Challenge, we purchased the Competition in a Box set from Pitsco in September of this school year and soon began using it as part of our daily routine in our high school Robotic Engineering class. The included challenges are designed for both the R/C mode and the PRIZM^® controller, but I was delighted to see how readily the set and challenges could be modified to fit the needs of my junior high classes as well. The Competition in a Box set can easily be scaled up or down, based on what robotics platform my classes are utilizing, and has greatly aided in our exploration and implementation of the engineering design process approach to problem-solving while bringing some friendly competition-style projects to the classroom setting.”

“We get students who say, ‘I can’t do math’ or ‘I can’t write very well.’ When they program their robot, we tell them they just used math. When they do their write-up for the competitions, we tell them, ‘You just wrote a paper.’ We connect our students to real-world applications through robotics.”