Vex IQ teacher's dad has a question about add-on parts

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This is my daughter’s first year teaching STEM, which includes a number of VEX IQ Gen 2 kits. I’m a retired software developer, coded from1972 until 2024. I’m helping her out with the kits, she inherited them from the previous teacher.

We know there Gen2 because of the markings on the boxes and the kits include a pin-tool, which I saw it new in Gen2. When I examined the installation instructions for the BaseBot and I also watched the youtube video for building the BaseBot, the kit I have does not have some of the parts. For example, the instructions call for 8
“Triple 2x Wide 2x2 Corner Connectors”. The kit I have has none of them.

Even the PLTW Construction Kit wall poster shows only 10 types of connectors, and does not include any triple connectory.

I found them in the “Corner Connector Advanced Add-On pack”, which I ordered along with some of the other missing parts.

So, here’s my questions:

  1. Is this normal? When the Gen2 kit was shipped it looks like there was a “Base Pack of Connectors”
  2. When you receive the Construction Kit, do users also have to order the add-on packs to get the extra parts?
  3. If we do need to order the add-on kits, is there any place on the web site that has a summary of add-on kits?

We are going to examine all the remaining kits to be sure the all kits will have the parts needed to build the BaseBots.

Any help would be greatly appreciate.

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Hi! All kits available from purchase from Vex have a “kit contents” tab on the website that should go over everything available in the given kit.

For example. IQ Competition Kits - VEX Robotics has a tab circled in the screenshot below,

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This applies to almost every item I can think of on the Vex website that counts as a kit.

i hope this helps!

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So there was the initial V2 kit, and then the follow on Competition Kit. @Entropy sent you the right way to find all the details about other kits.

You have already figured out that you can get the “triple wide connector” as a pack. You can do as I do, just buy the smaller, much cheaper packs. But if you want to be once and done then the Competition Upgrade Kit is your path forward.

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Thank you for the response.

Since we were not the ones who ordered the original kits, I’m going to assume that our idea of reviewing all the kit contents and ordering any add-on parts is the only way we can have the parts we need, according to the build instructions, for our kids.

As we progress from build to build, we will first review the build instruction required parts to verify that we have these parts and if not we can order them, provided we have the budget.

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Thanks Forset, I will check with her to see about budget constraints…

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Good luck! And I have to say that is one of the more unique misspellings of my name :grin: