VIQRCAnnual RECF season
Built on VEX IQ · Elementary & Middle School (Grades 4–8)
The world's largest robotics competition at the primary and middle-school level. Two-robot Teamwork alliances cooperate in the matched 4×8 field, with separate Robot Skills and Programming Skills challenges.
- Teamwork Challenge — 2 robots, 1 alliance, 60-second matches
- Robot Skills + Programming Skills runs
- STEM Research Project & Engineering Notebook judging
- Pathway to VEX Robotics World Championship
V5RCAnnual RECF season
Built on VEX V5 · Middle & High School (Grades 7–12)
The flagship head-to-head competition: two alliances of two robots face off on a 12×12 field in a new game each season. Designed to stretch mechanical design, strategy and autonomous coding at a competitive level.
- 2v2 alliance matches · 15-second autonomous + 1:45 driver
- Robot Skills & Programming Skills challenges
- Design Award judged from the Engineering Notebook
- Signature Events, Regionals, National and Worlds pathway
VAICAnnual RECF season
Built on VEX V5 + VEX AI add-ons · High School & University
A fully autonomous competition: no driver control. Teams engineer perception, planning and control pipelines using the VEX AI camera, GPS and SDK — the closest path to applied robotics research for pre-university teams.
- 100% autonomous — no human driver
- VEX AI Vision, GPS sensor, onboard compute
- Separate High School and University divisions
- Culminates at VEX Worlds
ADCAnnual RECF season
Built on VEX AIR · Middle & High School
RECF's aerial competition. Pilots and programmers fly the VEX AIR drone through scored tasks — combining manual precision flight, autonomous missions and team-based judging.
- Teamwork piloting missions
- Autonomous Flight Skills challenge
- Piloting Skills challenge
- Safety-first education-grade drone platform
VEX UAnnual RECF season
Built on VEX V5 (with expanded rules) · University / TVET
The university-level division of the V5 game. Relaxed rules allow custom parts, advanced sensors and larger robots — a competitive sandbox for engineering undergraduates.
- Custom-machined parts allowed
- Expanded sensor and electronics list
- Showcases applied mechatronics & software engineering
- University teams compete at VEX Worlds
WORLDSAnnually — late April / May
All VEX divisions · All age divisions
The culminating event on the RECF calendar. The world's largest robotics championship brings together the top VEX IQ, V5, VEX AI, VEX U and Aerial Drone teams from every participating nation. Kenyan teams qualify through their national pathway.
- Over 50 participating countries
- All RECF divisions compete under one roof
- Kenya teams earn berths via national qualifiers
- Exposure to global university & industry scouting
CREATEAnnually — early April
VEX IQ, V5 & VEX U · Middle School · High School · University
A premier invitational championship run by the CREATE Foundation in partnership with RECF. International teams — including strong pathways for Kenyan qualifiers — compete alongside the top U.S. programs.
- Open to international teams
- Separate VIQRC, V5RC and VEX U divisions
- A major stepping-stone event before Worlds
WRO KEAnnual — national finals mid-year
Open platform — VEX kits widely used · Elementary · Junior · Senior · University
The Kenyan national round of the World Robot Olympiad. A sister pathway to RECF that Kenyan schools run alongside VEX competitions — strong coach-development and community presence, with teams progressing to WRO International.
- National-level tournament in Kenya
- Categories: RoboMission, Future Innovators, Future Engineers, RoboSports
- Qualifier for WRO International Final
- Complements — does not replace — the RECF pathway
