Robotics

• A build-and-program activity: students design a robot, code it, and run it against a task or another team's robot.
• The platform depends on the school — LEGO, VEX or FIRST — and that choice changes the season, the cost and the kit.

• Not one identical district program. Two JCPS schools can run completely different robotics seasons.
• Not the same as STLP, even though both involve technology.
• A club that builds at school is not automatically a competition team.

A school sponsor runs the team. The district does not run one robotics league for every school.

Fall through winter for most competition teams. Year-round building can happen before the official season starts. Confirm locally — the platform the school uses sets the calendar.

• Ask which platform the school uses — LEGO, VEX or FIRST.
• Ask whether there is a tryout, or a limited pit and crew roster.
• Ask what the family pays for kits, registration and travel.
• Ask whether joining the club means competing this year, because it often does not.

A teacher or school sponsor runs the group. The district may coordinate a league or showcase, but it does not staff the team. Not every JCPS school offers this, and availability changes year to year — confirm at your child's school before you plan around it.

1. Which robotics program do you run, and which grades are on it?
2. What days and times does the team meet?
3. What do kits and registration cost, and who covers it?
4. Who travels to competitions, and how is that decided?
5. Is this building actually competing this year, or only building?

This list is incomplete on purpose and is not a directory. We only list what we have actually seen a school publish, so a school missing here may still run the program — and a school listed here can drop it.

Still verifying. We have not published a robotics school list yet and we will not invent a count. Browse the schools directory and check a school's own page, and tell us what your school offers — that link is for adding a school, not for asking who the sponsor is. Browse the schools directory or tell us what your school offers.