Does anyone have any ideas of how or what to do with VEX IQ and VRC challenge field parts from past challenges?
Does anyone have any ideas of how or what to do with VEX challenge field parts from past challenges?
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Maybe have summer camps with them. I’ve seen that idea of using old games for younger students to learn. This is great because you can look at worlds winning robots and get teams to build something similar. ( but most likely much less complex)
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A fun summer challenge: Mix up the game elements, build a fence in the middle of the field out of 12x12s. Have teams build robots and play starstruck-style. A little of a mix up from the usual teamwork of vex IQ. You could even assign different point values for different objects.
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If you have anything bucket-shaped, you can use that for holding game objects in future games. There are several different ways that people have used things like this. For example, our regional competition used Tipping Point mobile goals for holding the field wires, and I heard that a team in my region used the Tower Takeover goals for holding Tipping Point rings (I don’t know if that is what the goals are called, I wasn’t in VEX during TT)
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(For VRC) You can take the spin up goals, remove the basket, use a longer pvc pipe, and have teams try to shoot Tipping Point Rings onto them. Or you can take the Tower Takeover/Skyrise cubes and have teams stack them as high as possible while having a Toss Up ball on the top of the stack. Or you can do spin up with sack attack sacks.
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Our club saves all of the old game elements and pieces, and the coach runs a robotics class using them. He will either run simplified versions of the games or make up his own simple game using a few pieces. It’s a great way to teach the basics of robotics, and then as they progress he can add in more of the complicated elements to help advance their knowledge.
Also, most of the plastic sheet like elements are technically VEX legal plastic, meaning you can cut and use them for plastic on your robot. Our club has been using Turning Point flags for a few seasons and were just now starting to run low and may need to buy more plastic sheets.
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Same! We still have quite a few flags left (for some reason) so we haven’t bought any plastic sheets in quite a while.
My team also likes to keep some past game elements to create a small racecourse/obstacle course or some very simplified game for other students to try during our school fair in the spring. This helps somewhat with recruitment for the next season and makes what would be a very plain course made of gaffer tape into something a bit more interesting.
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you can make mini challenges for younger and/or new students. They can learn about VEX but not as complex. We do a summer camp for new students.
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I’m looking to buy VRC Spin Up Disks and Baskets
I also want VRC Starstruck Stars and Fence
Hey, so our school has numerous otherwise excessive amounts of old field elements from previous games. There are always some things we can keep and always use, or make crafts with, however even with doing all that, we still would have an abundance of unnecessary parts. What are we gonna do with 300+discs, rings, and triballs? If anyone has any ideas or are in need of old elements please let me know 
my school has everyone take a field element and get it signed by their team members/anyone in robotics they want to sign it. makes a cool moment for the season.
there’s also this thread, which has some ideas for some games you could play.
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There was a nearly identical post recently on this question with several answers to your question.
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I am planning on putting a mini pc in a triball, I already own one but if you picked up a raspberry pi for cheap it would be a cool project
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I have this cool idea of making it a display. You may not have all of your spin up team but do this with over under definitely. That the game piece and have the whole team sign it and then put it in a display case so it is like a team history. In 20 years you will have a whole wall of history.
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