| | INSIDE THE BAY AREA’S PREMIER STEM PREP HUB | March 2026 |
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| | The Season Finale, Countdown, and Everything In Between |
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The season is coming to a close, but there's no slowing down. National results are in, Demo Day is days away, a new game drops on April 24, and our seniors are headed to some of the best universities in the country. Here's the full update. |
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| Demo Day is Here! The Ultimate End-of-Season Showdown |
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Demo Day is back on Saturday, April 18, 2026, bringing together teams from across all Robolabs locations for one final, high-energy competition before the new game is revealed.
Unlike traditional tournaments, Demo Day creates space for: Bold design changes and last-iteration improvements High-risk, high-reward strategies A focus on performance without qualification pressure
With cash prizes on the line and a fully internal competitive field, Demo Day has become one of the most anticipated events of the year. More than a finale, it serves as a transition point, where teams apply everything they’ve learned and begin setting the tone for the next season.
Prize Breakdown
VEX VRC
🏆 Tournament Champions: $1,000 total ($500 per winner)
🥈 Tournament Finalists: $500 total ($250 per winner)
⚙ Robot Skills Champion: $500 total ($300 for 1st, $200 for 2nd)
VEX IQ
🏆 Teamwork Champions: $500 total ($250 per winner)
🥈 Teamwork Second Place: $250 total ($125 per winner)
⚙ Robot Skills Champion: $250 total ($150 for 1st, $100 for 2nd)
All Robolabs teams are already registered, no additional sign-up required. The focus now is preparation: refine your design, sharpen your skills, and get ready.
Demo Day consistently delivers high energy, creative strategy, and intense final matches. We’re looking forward to seeing how teams close out the year. |
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| U.S. Open Create: Competing Among the Best |
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Robolabs teams traveled to Iowa this month to compete at the CREATE U.S. Open Robotics Tournament, one of the largest and most competitive national events in the VEX ecosystem, drawing top teams from across the country and internationally.
Team 3457Z and Team 3134E both advanced to Division Finals, with 3457Z earning a Division Finals victory and finishing among the top teams in the nation.
The U.S. Open is a unique event. The match volume is high, the competition level is world-class, and teams have to stay sharp across a long and demanding schedule. Both teams represented Robolabs well, and the experience is one that carries forward into everything they do next. |
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| High School on the Big Stage |
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Alongside strong competitive results, VEX IQ Team 3230F earned the Sportsmanship Award at the CREATE U.S. Open in Iowa. This award recognizes teams that compete with respect, professionalism, and a positive attitude throughout the entire event. At a national stage with hundreds of teams, earning that kind of recognition says a lot about the students and the culture they're building. |
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As the season winds down, one of the things we look forward to most is celebrating our graduating seniors.
These students have put in years of work, designing, building, coding, competing, and mentoring along the way. They've grown into strong engineers, thoughtful leaders, and reliable teammates.
This year, our seniors have been accepted to universities including UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, Purdue, Texas A&M, and more, with many headed into engineering, robotics, and computer science. That track record speaks to who they are: curious, persistent, and willing to take on hard problems over a long period of time.
Many of them have also shaped the Robolabs community in ways that extend well beyond their own competition results, mentoring younger teams, contributing to team culture, and setting a standard for the students coming up behind them.
Congratulations to the Class of 2026. We're excited to see what comes next. |
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College Consulting for STEM Students |
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Beyond robotics, Robolabs also offers a college consulting program focused specifically on STEM applicants. This year, we supported more students than ever before, with our consulting cohort earning acceptances to schools including UC Berkeley, Yale, and other top programs.
The program is long-term by design. We work with students starting as early as freshman year, helping them build a strong foundation through project development, strategic extracurricular planning, and summer positioning. When application season arrives, we're already deep in it together, working through 30+ one-on-one essay sessions and guiding every piece of the application from start to finish.
Enrollment is limited each year to keep the work personalized. If your student is thinking ahead to college, this is a good time to reach out. |
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| | | | 💡 RoboFacts: A New Challenge is Coming
In less than a month, on April 24 at the VEX World Championship in St. Louis, the next competition game will be revealed for the 2026-2027 season. No one outside the game design committee knows what it is. Every year, VEX releases a brand new challenge in the form of a game. The field stays the same, but the game elements, objectives, and scoring all change, meaning teams have to rethink their robot design, strategy, and code from scratch.
But before that happens, there's still one more chance to compete on the current game, Push Back. Demo Day on April 18 is the final event of the season, and the window to prepare is right now. This is the time to perfect your autonomous routines, sharpen your driver skills, clean up your programming, and run the drills that turn a good match into a great one.
Once the new game drops on the 24th, Push Back is officially in the rearview. Make the most of these last few weeks.
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| One Week. UC Berkeley. A Program Unlike Any Other. |
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Summer program season is here, and if your student is serious about robotics and AI, we want to make sure this is on your radar. The Robolabs VEX AI Summer Academy at UC Berkeley is back this July, and we genuinely don't know of another week-long program that covers this much ground.
The curriculum goes deep: machine learning fundamentals, neural networks, computer vision, autonomous robotics, and all the way into transformer architectures and how LLMs fit into the world of self-driving robots. Students work hands-on with NVIDIA Jetson processors and Intel RealSense cameras, and hear from industry speakers from places like Amazon, Tesla, and Google. All of it set on the campus of the number one public university in the world.
Beyond the lab, students live in UC Berkeley dorms, dine on campus, and explore the Bay Area with trips to San Francisco and Silicon Valley. It's part summer camp, part college preview, part technical bootcamp |
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| | Summer Camps Are Back, Up to 9 Weeks of Hands-On Fun! |
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Summer at Robolabs means one thing: robots, creativity, and nine weeks of unforgettable learning. From June 8 to August 7, our full- and half-day camps are running across all fours of our locations: Dublin, Fremont, San Jose Steven Creek and Evergreen.
Whether your child is a first-time builder or a seasoned VEX IQ pro, each week offers hands-on engineering, problem-solving, and innovation. Already enrolled? Spread the word. Spots are still available, and it’s a great chance for friends and family to join the fun! |
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| | VEX AI World Championship at UC Berkeley! |
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Mark your calendars. On June 12–14, 2026, Robolabs will be the official host of the VEX AI World Championship at UC Berkeley. This is one of the most prestigious events in competitive robotics, and it is coming to our backyard. Our AI team will be competing on the very floor we are organizing, which makes this moment extra meaningful. More details to come. |
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| | Your Competition Calendar |
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| Tournament season is in full swing with VEX IQ and V5 events scheduled through December. Circle these dates and get ready - every tournament is a chance to qualify for states! |
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| | Hands-on and immersive VEX and FIRST Robotics for kindergarten - 12th grade. |
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| | Fun, and valuable Robotics learning over a break. For students from 1st to 12th grade. |
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| | Journey to become a high-school author and inventor! |
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| | Leverage the entirety of Robolabs to get you into your dream college. |
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| Summer Academy at UC Berkeley |
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| Explore AI and robotics at UC Berkeley with expert mentors. |
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| | Design and code real-world apps from scratch. |
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| | Master SolidWorks & Onshape to design real robotics parts. |
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| | Create, prototype, and build your own product with 3D printing and CNC milling. |
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| | DUBLIN ROBOTICS CLUB, ROBOLABS DUBLIN |
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